Writing Skills: Feature Writing: Advanced (2 day)

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Audience

Those who have been writing features for at least two years.

Not for:

Junior feature writers.

Course Outline

This is a split workshop so that delegates can plan a feature, reconvening on the second day with the completed article to have it assessed. The final day includes a detailed analysis of each delegate's writing style.

Includes:

• A look at differing narrative forms
• The overriding importance of structure
• Analysing where features have gone wrong
• The power of the language for emotion or effect
• An outline of advanced interviewing and investigation methods
• The need for stories to have a beginning, a middle and an end, with emphasis on intros
• Troubleshooting
• Coaching junior feature writers

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