How to write your first novel, a Masterclass with Adele Parks

We welcome number one Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks to Chorleywood on May 19th at 7pm at Chorleywood Library.

Adele will give a creative writing masterclass on writing your first novel plus a talk about her new book “Just my Luck”.

Adele will offer encouragement and a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other practical guide to the elusive art, craft and graft of fiction writing.

The course will cover topics such as:

• Motives for writing
• Can writing be taught?
• Time and space for your novel
• Practical conditions to optimise output
• Theme
• Character
• Plot
• Experimenting with prose
• Editing

Adele Parks was born in Teesside, North-East England. She is the author of nineteen international bestsellers, including her most recent Sunday Times number one bestseller, Lies Lies Lies. She’s an ambassador for The National Literacy Trust and a judge for The Costa. Adele has lived in Botswana, Italy and London, and is now settled in Guildford, Surrey, with her husband, son and cat. “Just My Luck” (published May 2020) is her 20th novel in 20 years.

Tickets £30 available from www.chilternbookshops.co.uk or Chorleywood Bookshop 01923 283566.

Entry to the creative writing event at Chorleywood Library will include a copy of Adele’s new book. Just my Luck RRP £12.99.

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