Beginning Writer’s Workshop with Author Natalie Bates

LITCHFIELD, Conn. - Sept. 2, 2014 - PRLog -- Do you have a great story to tell but don’t know where to start? In this workshop, published novelist and playwright Natalie Bates will teach you how to create compelling, dramatic and entertaining fiction in a form that best suits your purpose.  She will present valuable tools to help you build a build a plot, discover your narrative voice, teach you how to charm your audience and explore techniques for telling a story that seizes the reader’s imagination.

After a successful career in stage and film acting, Natalie Bates turned to writing in 1988 and saw her first novel, Friend of the Family published by Athenaeum. Besides her various fiction projects, she has authored or edited several non-fiction books, including the Nautilus Award-winning collection of Daisaku Ikeda’s essays, For the Sake of Peace. She teaches workshops privately and for institutions such as the Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University and has assisted several aspiring authors to publish their own stories and novels.

All Oliver Wolcott Library events are free and open to the public. Space is limited.  Registration is required and can be done by calling 860-567-8030 or logging onto www.owlibrary.org and clicking on Programs/Adult Programs.