Turn your life or your family’s history into a compelling story this summer

June 7, 2012 - PRLog -- The genealogy and family history markets are booming. A proliferation of television programmes like Who Do You Think You Are, Heir Hunters, Find My Past and Long Lost Family and websites like Ancestry.com, Familysearch.org and Genes Reunited - with millions of active members – there is a keen interest in discovering family and personal life stories.

University College Falmouth’s intensive five-day Life Writing course will introduce you to ways of drawing on life experiences and how to write - whether you would like to write a story about your family history, your own life experiences, a biography or are considering  ghost writing, telling someone else’s life story.

If you’ve spent time tracing your family’s history and uncovering mysteries, secrets, laugh-out-loud moments, joys, tragedies, heroism or simple tales of everyday life from the past…you can turn painstaking research into book for the public and your family to enjoy.

If you’ve led a fascinating life that can inspiration for others or just a jolly good yarn, this course can help you shape the narrative.

Whether you want to write a family blog, a book, a scrapbook memoir or a simple document to pass among your relatives, this course will work for you.

The course will show you how to:
•   piece information into a coherent narrative
•   use techniques to recover memory of past events
•   explore the ethics of writing down personal stories
•   create a sense of time and place
•   draw from out of the elements of  your stories that will make them compelling to a wider audience
•   structure
•   describe events, places and things.

You don’t have to have to be an experienced writer. Falmouth’s Life Writing short course is designed to be appropriate for all levels of education and writing abilities. The course will be taught as a series of hands-on workshops, with students given individual and group assignments encouraging them to practise the skills introduced. It is led by experienced life writing tutor, award-winning radio, TV and stage writer and producer Paul Dodgson, who has successfully taught several short courses at Falmouth.

]Fee: £380 per person.

Dates:The course will take place over five days, 9-13 July 2012

Time: 9.30am - 4.00pm

Venue: University Collerge Falmouth, Tremough Campus, Penryn, Cornwall

For more information, please visit: http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/201/courses-7/professional-deve...



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Paul Dodgson
Paul Dodgson is a highly experienced writer, composer, producer and teacher who has written and produced many plays and screenplays for BBC radio and television. His writing credits include episodes of EastEnders, the highly acclaimed series Betjeman's Women for BBC Radio Four and Ivan and the Dogs, which won the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Play 2010. Paul's latest play was a radio memoir called You Drive Me Crazy, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in January. Paul has delivered successful life writing workshops all over the UK.

You can find out more about Paul and his Life Writing courses at www.writinglife.co.uk