📘 Q&A: Write Your First (or Next) 10k Words + Get NaNoWriMo Ready [FREE]

​Is there a story brewing in your mind, but you're struggling to write your first or next 10,000 words? 

​With the Autumn leaves falling and November on the horizon, now is the perfect time to double down on your writing and channel your creative energy. 

Join our live Q&A with prolific author Anna Wilson, where we’ll explore how to overcome writer's block, stay focused, and write consistently—while still having fun.

We'll also explore common craft worries, such as:

• ​How to craft compelling beginnings that hook readers

• ​What's behind vibrant secondary and tertiary characters

• ​Why you should raise the stakes to avoid sagging middles 

​About Anna Wilson

​Anna has written over 50 books for both adults and children, many of them inspired by her love of animals and the countryside - in particular her love of Cornwall where she lives. Her children’s non-fiction titles include Nature Month-by-Month - a children’s almanac (Nosy Crow and The National Trust, 2019-2023), The Wide, Wide Sea (Nosy Crow and The National Trust, 2021) and Shine Like the Stars (Andersen Press, 2023). She has also published a memoir - A Place for Everything, my mother, autism and me (HarperCollins, 2020). Anna has been a tutor for the Bath Spa MA: Writing for Children and Young People. She is also an Arvon Foundation tutor and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow for the University of Exeter in Penryn. She is a Gold coach at LWS and runs the courses: Idea To Outline. Her next course will be Write Your First (or Next)10k.

​**Held immediately following our Writers’ Hour PT session, in the same room.** 

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