Creative Writing Workshop

NOTE: This event requires a minimum of 4 people to go ahead. If we do not reach this number 48 hours prior, the event will be cancelled. A focused weekly creative writing sprint workshop for writers, beginners, and anyone who wants a structured way to build a scene. This is not a lecture and it is not a critique group. It is a practical writing session where we move step by step through the building blocks of a scene: idea, perspective, character, dialogue, action, description, and edit. You can come with your own story, chapter, character, world, or scene idea. If you do not have anything prepared, we will start with a simple memory, feeling, image, or moment and use that as raw material. Across the session, we will write through short guided sprints:

• Choose a starting point
• Shift it into a fictional scene
• Add character and perspective
• Introduce dialogue and tension
• Add action beats and movement
• Layer in description and sensory detail
• Refine the scene through a simple edit

By the end, you should have a rough but workable scene: something you can keep developing, use as a writing exercise, or bring back to a future session. This workshop is suitable for beginners, returning writers, fiction writers, memoir writers, fantasy writers, screenwriters, and anyone who wants to get words on the page in a supportive, structured environment. WHAT TO BRING

• A notebook and pen, or a laptop/tablet
• Optional: an existing idea, character, chapter, scene, or world you want to work on
• Optional: a drink, journal, or anything that helps you write comfortably

HOW THE ZOOM WORKSHOP WORKS This workshop uses one reusable Hero’s Journey Creative Zoom room. Please join at 8:00pm using the Zoom link provided on this Meetup event page. Because we are currently trialling the free Zoom setup, the workshop is structured in three short parts with two planned reset breaks. If Zoom closes during a break, simply rejoin using the same Meetup Zoom link. Part 1 — 8:00pm Starting Point → Fictional Shift → Dialogue Reset Break — around 8:40pm Rejoin using the same Meetup Zoom link. Part 2 — around 8:45pm Action Beats → Description / Style Reset Break — around 9:25pm Rejoin using the same Meetup Zoom link. Part 3 — around 9:30pm Edit & Refine → Optional Sharing → Wrap-Up Sharing is optional. You can read aloud, share one line, ask a craft question, or keep your work private. Facilitated by Kauri Tukere, writer and founder of Hero’s Journey Creative.