Writing Workshop: Where Fact Meets Fiction – Turning Memoir into a Page-Turning Novel

What you will learn:

For Memoir & Family History Writers: How to uncover the “story” within your facts and structure a non-fiction narrative with the pace, tension, and emotional pull of a novel.

For Fiction Writers: How to blend genres and infuse real-life events with commercial elements – romance, mystery, and suspense – to create stories that captivate readers.

Finally, we’ll  demystify the publishing process. You’ll gain a clear, start-to-finish overview of modern self-publishing and learn how to produce a professional-quality, print-on-demand book for as little as $12 per paperback and only slightly more for hardcover.

Whether you’re preserving family history or crafting historical fiction, this course will equip you with the tools to make your story unforgettable.

Beverley Eikli was a journalist and features writer for newspapers and magazines in Adelaide, Sydney and Perth before she began writing fiction and non-fiction under three pen names.

www.beverleyoakley.com

Student feedback:

"Now that we've finished the course, Beverley, I give you special thanks for your practical help, useful advice, specialist knowledge and challenging exercises that you set the class. You are an excellent teacher -  sufficiently flexible to digress when necessary, but focused on essential tasks at the same time. You stretched when pressured!” Graeme

"I have found Beverley's practical, flexible and interactive style, as well as her prompting exercises, extremely effective and valuable." Patrick

"Beverley's teaching style strikes a happy balance between a structured approach that provides students with the toolkit they need to develop and improve their writing and an earthy humanity that encourages them to explore and unlock their creative potential." George