Literary Arts, Talk/Workshop

AFCC 2017 Masterclass: Writing the Weird

Organised by: The National Book Development Council of Singapore Performed by: Lee Battersby
  • Date:
    20 May 2017
  • Time:
    10:00am
  • Duration:
    8h with lunch intermission
  • Venue:
    Singapore Management University Seminar Room 3.3, Level 3, School of Social Sciences, 90 Stamford Road, Singapore 178903
  • Language:
    English
  • Admission:
    $175.50
  • Advisory:
    For Middle-Grade or YA fiction

Synopsis:

How do you write stories that grip, thrill and spook children of all ages? Invert the world, add strange elements, and bend the laws of physics to breaking point. Award-winning writer Lee Battersby will take participants through the stages of world-building, story construction, and creating the fantastic, with an eye to creating stories that disturb, thrill, and go bump in the night.