Crime Writing at the Irish Writers Centre!

Well folks, it all starts again on the 29th September 2016 - 10 Weeks Crime Fiction Course 6.30 - 8.30 every Thursday at the Irish Writers Centre.

For further information click HERE.....

MAKING A MURDERER CRIME FICTION with LOUISE PHILLIPS.....http://irishwriterscentre.ie/collections/all-courses/products/making-the-murderer-crime-fiction-with-louise-phillips

And here are some of the motley crew from last week's Crime Writing Course at the Irish Writers Centre!!

Fully Booked!!

Thanks to everyone who enrolled for the next Crime Fiction Course at the Irish Writers Centre!

It is now FULLY BOOKED....but I'm looking forward to a great 10 weeks ahead!!! HERE

Tallafest 2015 - Exploring Character and Story!!

This festival gets more successful year on year and I'm thrilled to be taking part again.

If you want to book a place on my FREE creative writing workshop 'Exploring Character and Story' go to www.tallafest.ie and book your place! 

This event is always oversubscribed so get booking!! #Tallafest15

Great Things Happen After Dark!!

I'm really looking forward to this event at Clondalkin Library on Friday.

Funding for this event and others, was made via the Carnegie Trust and the project called the 'Library After Dark Writers Café' is aimed at offering a course of creative writing workshops covering a variety of forms and genres, and also, to offer writers a quiet space and some time to actually write.

Clondalkin library opens 'after hours' once a month on a Friday to facilitate the café, which is open to new and emerging writers.

To reserve your place for future events, please email: libraryafterdark@sdublincoco.ie with a sample of your creative writing.  

At this month's cafe, I will be looking at how best to create pace in your novel, under the guise of 'Unleashing Your Dark Side: The Best Ways to Commit Fictional Crime'.

The Cafe is open from 6.30pm - 9.30pm when the Library is closed to the general public.

Exploring the Novel World!!

Exploring the Novel World

With Award Winning Crime Author Louise Phillips

•GETTING THAT BIG IDEA

•WHERE DO GREAT CHARACTERS COME FROM?

•ROLE PLAY

•WORKSHOP EXERCISES

• WHY FIRST DRAFTS ARE TOUGH

•FINDING YOUR FICTIONAL VOICE

DATE: 18th April 2015
TIME: 09.45 to 14.30 
PLACE: Carousel Writers' Centre
BOOKING: www.carousel-creates.com
TEL: 086 1923613
COST (Including all refreshments): €40

Want to Write or Finish that Crime Novel???

There are some great upcoming courses at the Irish Writers' Centre, but if you want to work on a crime novel, here is the blurb about the course I will be facilitating from the 5th February....

CRIME WRITING WORKSHOP at the IRISH WRITERS CENTRE with LOUISE PHILLIPS

Over 10 weeks, commencing the 5^th February, this course will cover many elements of successful crime writing – creating tension, pace, memorable characters, effective dialogue, plot and a gripping page-turning story.

Workshop exercises and editorial critique will also sharpen your fictional voice, and as research is a huge component of crime writing – the course will look at how much, how little, and where do you go to find the answers you're looking for?

During the course, we will have visits from detectives who will take you step-by-step through crime scene evaluation and the gathering of forensic evidence.

Since commencing workshops, two of Louise’s students have achieved publishing deals and another two are signed with agents.

If you’re looking to start or finish your crime novel, this course will get you closer to the finish line.

Louise Phillips is the bestselling author of psychological crime thrillers, Red Ribbons, The Doll’s House (Winner of the Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year) and Last Kiss.

Contact the Irish Writers Centre at 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1. 

Tel: +353 1 872 1302, Email: info@writerscentre.ie   or visit HERE

Starts Thursday 5th February

6.30pm–8.30pm - Duration: 10 weeks

Cost: €280/€260 members

The secret of becoming a writer....

"The secret of becoming a writer..., write, write and keep on writing," or in the words of Ernest Hemingway..."There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

It was the final session of the Write That Novel course in Carousel Creates last night, and it was a mighty session. Once again, there was a great group of writers coming together to explore areas of the craft. I may be biased, but I think writing brings out the best in people. It was certainly a pleasure for me to facilitate this lovely group.

Thank you all for being so enthusiastic, and for your lovely present and handmade card. I was really touched.

x

Louise 

Teenagers!!

I'm giving a presentation about creative writing (specifically about creating fictional characters) to a group of a hundred 16-year-old schoolgirls next week.....

I thought it would take me an hour or two to put together.I mean I only had to amend some existing presentations

WRONG!!!

5 Hours later, I'm still working on it!!

Inspiring!!

The 'WRITE THAT NOVEL' workshop in Carousel Creates, kicked off last night, and this evening, I'm off to the Irish Writers Centre for the 'CRIME FICTION WORKSHOP'.

I haven't worked with so many writers at the one time before, (twenty four in total) but I have to say it is inspiring. Both groups are great, and I'm looking forward to my weekly visits away from the fictional world of novel number 4, which for now, fingers crossed, is bubbling away nicely!!

Write a Bestseller - Full Day Seminar Tara Towers Hotel

Write about what you know. It's advice you'll often hear when you go to write a book. But what about crime writing? How do we research without murdering someone!! A question I will be discussing as part of the following seminar:

'Write A Bestseller' at the Tara Towers Hotel this Sat 11th Oct 9.30- 4.30pm. 

Join myself and International bestseller author Marisa Mackle, as well as bestselling authors Caroline Finnerty and Caroline Grace-Cassidy for the day!

Cost is 99 euro including refreshments. (Hotel is opposite Booterstown DART station. Parking for the day costs 5 euro.)

All notes will be emailed to attendees the day after the workshop - no need to bring lap top. Just relax and enjoy the day. 

LIMITED PLACES!

You can email me at phillips.louisem0@gmail.com

Crime Fiction Sparks!!!

Well it all kicks off tomorrow evening at the Irish Writers Centre!! 

Another 8 weeks of crime fiction workshop sessions. 

There will be a full house, actually, a full house (12) plus 1, as yours truly still hasn't worked out how to say no!! lol

I have no doubt there will be plenty of creativity over the next 8 weeks and many a crime fiction spark a flying!!

WRITE THAT NOVEL!!

 

8 Week Novel Writing Workshop at Carousel Creates

with Award Winning Crime Writer

Louise Phillips

Commencing Wednesday, 15th October 2014

7pm - 9 pm

•Get started on your novel or continue it on the right foot

•Develop your cast of characters

•Explore plot V story

•Learn how to outline - including mind maps

•Also - how to create effective dialogue

•Get a strong understanding of character & story arch

  

•Cement your narrative voice

•Examine points of view

•Explore the Novel Setting  & the World of your Story

•Receive editorial critique of your work

Cost: €120

For Booking Contact Details

Phone: +353861923613

E-Mail:  cacopland@gmail.com

Write to us at:

Or book online HERE

Carousel Writers' Centre

'Aisling na Smól'

Killakee Rd. Killakee.

Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.

Finding the right words....

I love writing, yes, honestly, I do! There are times it can get me hot under the collar and all that, and there are times when not being able to find the right words really frustrates me, but by and large I'm glad I've chosen this sometimes crazy path.

Last night ended the 6 weeks writing workshop at Carousel Creates, and all ten participants were a pleasure to get to know and to be part of their writing journey....

I got all emotional when they presented me a hand crafted pen made from wood extracted from 5000 years of bog...I will be thinking of those 5000 years when I use it!

Their words inside the hand-made card by the lovely artist Patricia Gibney were also very touching, and I was especially delighted that Stephen King took time out of his busy schedule to sign it!!!

Write That Novel!

HUGE CONGRATS to everyone who started my WRITE THAT NOVEL COURSE at Carousel Creates last week...one week in and 30,000 more words live in this world!!

WRITE THAT NOVEL - One Place Left due to cancellation!

WRITE THAT NOVEL workshop starts Wednesday 7th May  - Due to Cancellation, One place is now available  - It could be yours!! 

To Book Visit HERE