Writing Workshop with Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Award-winning and best-selling crime author, Ashley Kalagian Blunt, is admired for her clever crafting of masterful crime novels. Join her when she shares her writing secrets in an exclusive workshop to celebrate ten years of BAD Sydney. In Ashley’s workshop, From Scene Structure to Story Structure, you’ll learn a set of practical tools and techniques to help you shape stronger scenes in your early drafts and troubleshoot your scenes-in-progress as you revise. By the end of the morning, you’ll have a template that will help you envision attention-grabbing scenes and revise both your existing scenes and your overall story structure. You’ll be welcomed to BAD Sydney’s venue partner Ardency Trebartha at Elizabeth Bay, ready to dive straight into the workshop at 10am. For three hours – with time out for a delicious morning tea, of course – Ashley will take you deep into narrative drive and story structure. Along the way, you’ll discover the seven elements every scene needs, how to use victories and defeats in scene and at the macro story level, why decisions are the crux of story and how to use them to shape your scenes. Requirements: You’ll want a draft of one of your scenes handy,…