Carole Enahoro

Writing workshops

Supercharged writing, including Zoom

Focused writing on your individual creative or academic projects using a technique known to boost productivity. Run in The Write Place, Frome second Sunday of every month, check Eventbrite. Sunday Zoom workshops begin in May.

Building character

Many writers have problems bringing their characters to life, particularly central protagonists. This course will examine why this occurs and offer remedies. It will explore typical aspects of writing memorable characters – strengths, flaws, idiosyncrasies and arc. Afterwards, we will move on to building character-based scenes using conflict, both internal and external, and explore the differing functions of dialogue, action, description and reaction. Then we will examine how one scene affects the whole and see how to weave backwards or forwards to link a scene to a longer piece. Winter 2024.

Story pacing

Rarely offered workshop on pacing which analyses page count-to-action; the relationship of dialogue and action to description, reflection, and texture; the importance of peaks and valleys; framing with time; creating, maintaining, and charting tension/conflict; and horizontal vs vertical reading. Coming in 2025.

Structuring the novel

Focus on novel form not format and loose pre-structuring to impel completion. Act structures, plot and character arcs, character, theme, dialogue/action/reaction, description/reflection, subplot, the middle novel souffle, climax, resolution. Winter 2024.

Creating texture and depth

This course is for those who wish to work on creating weight in the novel. It is aimed at writers who tend to shy away from or have difficulty with description, have not knitted in theme and symbolic content, wish to find ways of making connections or exploring narrative structures that support the theme of the work (example circular structures for themes about the cycle of life). Introduction to methods such as the one-inch square and law of three, symbolism, repetitive motifs. It is particularly relevant to those who want their descriptive passages to 'shine'. Includes exercises, pre-work and sharing your own writing. Offered in 2025.