Writing skills training

 Courses, seminars, workshops and training on writing skills for business, government and the voluntary sector in the UK.

“Writing is long periods of thinking and short periods of writing” - Ernest Hemingway.
Whether it’s Hemingway, Western and crime story writer Elmore Leonard or Germany’s Nobel Prize winning novelist Thomas Mann, they all tell you the same thing – writing is neither quick nor easy.

It’s the words you throw away and the time you spend re-writing and editing that make the difference. It’s common for professional writers to spend three or four times as long editing their own work as writing it in the first place.

Now, I can’t do much to help you become a best-selling novelist, but I can teach you a few basics to make the writing you have to do for your job a lot more successful and a lot less painful.

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators” - Albert Camus.
And in case my word – and that of Camus -- isn’t enough to convince you, here’s a comment from one I did earlier:

“We’re in the throes of planning the NALSVI 2006 conference and we were wondering if you would come and present your ‘Keep it short and simple’ workshop again. Delegates who attended last year thought it was excellent.” - Sue Ferguson, Information Officer, National Association of Local Societies for Visually Impaired People.

Course content
Apart from some of the basics of good writing, courses can cover:

You’ll learn about the importance of headlines, sentence length, the murky waters of adjectives, the rules to follow and the pitfalls to avoid.

Finally, in addition to guidance on writing, courses can include advice on how to talk to and cultivate the media.

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For further details, email: John Sanders

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