Writing for children is like throwing a party – it should be enormous fun for everyone, but it's easy for the host to get bogged down in organising things and forget to have a good time. This course can change all that. It's not about how to format a manuscript or sweet-talk an agent. It's about putting you in touch with your muse, and making sure the two of you keep each other – and your audience – entertained.

With this liberating weekend course, Laura Dockrill, acclaimed author of the much-loved Darcy Burdock books, will teach you useable, creative exercises that make writing fun. Along the way, you'll find out how to use your own experiences, philosophies and personal quirks to create characters your readers will care about – and how to stimulate your imagination to transplant them into incredible adventures. With lashings of priceless feedback from Laura, you'll finish the weekend brimming with confidence as well as new ideas.

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