you have an idea, make it a story
Practical LiteratureWRITING WORKSHOP
scenario – literature – theatre
SOUTH KENSINGTON – LONDON
Created and conducted by Stéphane Labat
Doctor es literature (PHD, Sorbonne, Paris).
25 years of professional experiences as a writer and a film director.
Author of the reference book « Extatic Poetry and Shamanic power of language ».
2013 & 2014 Best audio book award (Plume de Paon, Paris-France)
An entirely new method
based on experience
Who is this workshop for ?
In theory, everybody could take up the challenge and become a writer. It’s just a question of passion, patience, work and method.
Everyone has at least one interesting story to tell.
With a point of view to express.
Practical Literature workshops give you the Tools and the techniques used by professionals to write their own stories.
How is it a new method ?
Rather than teaching a theoretical subject, we transmit a practical method to conceive and write a story.
This method was directly inspired not only by personal experiences but also from other writers’s methodologies.
In addition to original exercices and Professional writing tips, the workshop gives many anecdotes about the way and the circumstances famous books or scripts were conceived.
This original method is taught nowhere else.
How does it work ?
You come with an idea. We give you the method and the motivation to create your own story.
The complete method consists of 21 courses.
Each course lasts 2 hours 30 minute, always in a caring, competent and joyful atmosphère.
The first classes take place in the area of South Kensington, near the french bookshop.
But through the cursus, we may settle in different areas of the city, in relation to the exercises and the subject of the class (in a bar, in a bus, in a market).
THE 21 STEPS TO BUILD YOUR STORY
The method is presented in 21 x 2h30 courses. Each workshop will give you the basics to conceive, construct and write a full narrative.
1. The Point of view
The main différence between an interesting story and a boring one.
2. The secret behind Professional writing
Every trick is revealed !
3. Creating characters I – Introspection
The first source of inspiration
4. Creating characters II – Let’s change our point of view
The art of empathy – How to use criticism
5. Collecting the material I – Reasearch and perspective
Context – Decor
6. Collecting the material II – Staging and setting in motion
How to collect and organize your ideas
7. Buiding a skeleton I – Organization and trajectory
How to put the pieces of the puzzle together
8. Buiding a skeleton II – The justification – The issue
What makes your story important ? Tips to add value to your story
9. get inspired : THEME 1 – THE JOURNEY
The first topic you find in every story
10. get inspired : THEME 2 – THE DOUBLE
The second topic you find in every story
11. Get inspired: THEME 3 – DEATH
The art of building a strong skeleton
12. Get inspired: THEME 4 – LOVE
The fourth topic you find in every story
13. Get inspired: THEME 5 – LAUGHTER AND CRUELTY
two essential and curiously identical themes
14. Cover the skeleton
Tension lines and Climax
15. Finding your style I – The rythm
The sound always before the meaning – finding the right words
16. Finding your style II – Vocabulary
Writing the first sentence – Stylistic supports
17. Finding your style IIII – Text temperature – cold
Why some stories give you the chills?
18. Finding your style IV – Text temperature – hot
How to give warmth and heat to a narrative?
19. Synchronicity
The art of inspiration
20. Rewriting the characters – the art of dialogue
Practical methods to write good lines for a dialogue
21. Readings and RE readings
To conclude our session
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Who is Stéphane Labat ?
Stéphane Labat is a writer, film and audio book director.
He was rewarded in France in 2013 and in 2014 for the best audio-book of the year. (Plume de Paon Awards)
He has also a Sorbonne PHD in comparative literature.
For 20 years, he wrote and directed many corporate and commercial films, as well as a few fictions. He has also some experiences as a journalist, editorial writer, ghost writer, translator, playwright, songwriter…
From this Professional life rich in various experiences, encounters, failures and successes, Stéphane extracted a practictal method for writing.
Why did he create those courses?
« The XXIst century will be spiritual or won’t be. »
(André Malraux, first culture minister of the modern world)
The world is not doing well.
In this era of « communication » and blind materialism, even words have lost their substance and their reality. Our world needs more than ever honesty and spiritual elevation. In other words, the world needs artists. Where are the inventors? The daring? The new thinkers?If you are still reading this, I think you are.
Now is the right time to reveal yourselves and embrace your talent !
Save the world and join the workshop !
PRICE & organisation
Group workshop
5 people- Each course last about 2 h 30.
- 5-6 participantsSchedules and meeting places are noted on the registration page and confirmed by text
- The courses are presented in English
- Pour la version française de l’atelier cliquez ici
One-on-one class
1 people- The Practictal Litterature workshop is also available in coaching mode, personalized and adapted to your objectives.
- Each course last about 2 h 30.
- The courses are presented in English.
- Pour la version française de l’atelier cliquez ici
Corporate seminairs
3 DAYS- 3 days to discover with fun the basics of professional writing.
- Learn how to structure your ideas, to build a story and to find the right words and the right style.
- The seminars are presented in English.
- Pour la version française de l’atelier cliquez ici
contact us
STEPHANE@PRACTICAL-LITERATURE.COM
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