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- IN PERSON The Writer's Odyssey: A Full-Day Journey Into Storytelling
IN PERSON The Writer's Odyssey: A Full-Day Journey Into Storytelling
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP | Saturday | February 22, 2025 | 10am-3:30pm MT
Instructor: Andrew Buckley
MEMBER PRICE: $100.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $140.00
Join author Andrew Buckley for "The Writer's Odyssey" — a day-long workshop to enhance, upgrade, and supercharge your storytelling skills. This comprehensive experience covers character development, dialogue, plot structure, and more. The day includes:
- Creative warm-ups
- Character creation techniques
- An interactive group writing session
- Plot development
- Dialogue writing
- Peer review & feedback
You'll leave with improved skills, clear writing goals, and be thoroughly (and happily) exhausted. Perfect for both new and experienced writers seeking to elevate their craft.
This workshop takes place in person at the Alexandra Writers Centre Society.
Andrew Buckley is a film school-educated writer, which means he’s spent most of his life with no money and a strong opinion about bad movies. Around the turn of the century he attended the Vancouver Film School’s Writing for Film and Television program, graduating with excellence. Today, he’s a traditional and self-published novelist of rather silly, yet enjoyable speculative fiction for all ages, a comic book writer, screenwriter, podcaster, creator, and keynote speaker.
For over 20 years, he’s worked in the dreaded world of marketing as a content creator, copywriter, and strategist for large national and international brands. He actively develops curriculum and teaches marketing, social media, and communication theory at the post-secondary level.
As a writer, Andrew favours playing in the fantasy and paranormal sandboxes and has a terrible habit of writing with a humorous and satirical slant despite being asked politely on numerous occasions to ‘please stop doing that’.
Andrew speaks to thousands of people each year, all over the world, about storytelling and writing through the delivery of interactive and engaging keynotes, workshops, and presentations at schools, colleges, writing conferences, teacher conferences, and comic cons.
At the time you’re reading this, he’s likely busy working on several new projects and attempting to bend time and space to allow for more hours in the day. He now lives happily in the Okanagan Valley, BC with a multitude of characters that dwell comfortably inside of his mind.
Andrew is represented by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary Management.
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