10th August

Life Writing

Name: Life Writing
Start: 2024-08-10T10:00:23+1000
End: 2024-08-10T17:00:23+1000
Location: Busybird Publishing

Price $300 AUD + BF Get tickets

Event description

People tell you that you’ve had an interesting life and that you should write a book.

But where do you start?

How do you frame your story? What are the legalities when it comes to writing about real people and real events? How do you navigate the emotional obstacles? What makes for compelling prose? How do you put it all together?

In this workshop we'll explore:

Tapping into those innermost memories
How to write about painful memories
Learn to frame your life into a compelling story
How to write about other people
How do you find your voice as a writer?
How do you make your prose more engaging
What legal issues you need to know
The difference between memoir and biography
Where to start and what to leave out
Where to next?

Too many people think writing about their lives is as easy as recounting everything that's happened in their lives, but good life writing is more than that.

Find how to to write about your life in a way that'll engage readers and wow everyone!

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Hostinformation

Les Zig

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Les Zig is a novelist, screenwriter, and speaker.

He has five published novels: Just Another Week in Suburbia (Pantera Press 2017), explores the questions of trust, fidelity, and how well you can ever truly know another person; while August Falling (Pantera Press 2018) is a story about unconditional acceptance, reclaiming the past, and finding a way forward; and Prudence (ECG Press 2023), which is a exploration of fidelity, temptation, and our darkest desires.

As ‘Lazaros Zigomanis’, he wrote the YA novel Song of the Curlew (Pinion Press 2019), a story about dreams, coming of age, community, love, and racism. It has been described by best-selling Young Adult author George Ivanoff as ‘an extraordinary book.’

His new YA novel, This, (MidnightSun Publishing 2023),tells the story of a 15-year-old dealing with burgeoning neurosis as he navigates social pressures, high school obligations, and his overbearing Greek parents.

Les is also the writer and director behind the half-hour satire mockumentary Little Diva Rising (2019), which met with great success on the independent festival circuit; and the web series The Abnorms (2020), a preternatural take on life in lockdown during the pandemic. He also wrote and directed the short action film, The Other Side of Paradise (2021).

He’s had four screenplays optioned, and a raft of unproduced screenplays place in over one hundred competitions. His stories and articles have also been published extensively.

A lifetime writer, Les has a love of storytelling, and has always wanted to tell stories.

He has also worked as an editor and screenplay assessor, specialising in structural editing.

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