Valentine's Day is just around the corner from this masterclass, and love is in the air. Whether you want to craft romances that would rival Romeo and Juliet's, bring together the most unlikely of lovers (the couple we all hoped would get together from the beginning) or write your own Bridget Jones-esque rom-com, this masterclass will help you hone your craft when it comes to writing love.
Author Bethany Rutter (Welcome to Your Life, Melt My Heart) will be sharing her creative process, as well as key learnings she has taken from publishing three novels. She will be taking you through the key ingredients of a love story, helping you understand how to create characters and a storyline that readers are emotionally invested in and moved by. But she will also be sharing her insight into how writers can disrupt some of the standard tropes of romance, and how to write characters and love stories that don't always conform.
As a writer of both adult fiction and YA, she will also sharing her thoughts on what writers need to take into account when writing for younger audiences vs. adult audiences, and what the editorial and publishing processes look like for both.
15 minutes will be reserved for a Q&A at the end of the masterclass.
This masterclass will be online, video platform to be confirmed. It will also be recorded so if you are unable to attend live, you'll be able to catch-up and access the recording for up to two weeks.
Bethany Rutter is a journalist and blogger who writes about fat bodies, plus size fashion and body politics including the benefits and limitations of body positivity.
Her debut novel, No Big Deal, was published by Macmillan Children’s in 2019 and her second novel, Melt My Heart, was published by Macmillan Children’s in 2020, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2021. Her adult debut, Welcome To Your Life, was be published by HarperFiction in May 2022.
She works in marketing at a plus-size fashion brand and is an occasional DJ. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Telegraph Magazine, Vogue, Dazed, RedOnline, The Debrief and others. She co-hosts the podcast What Page Are You On? and is the author of Plus+, a coffee table book offering style inspiration for everyone.
The workshop fee of £30 (incl. VAT) is payable in full online. Please note that payment instalment plans are available for all W&A events, writing courses and editing services. Contact W&A Admin on writersandartists@bloomsbury.com so that we can find a payment schedule that works for you.
This is a live online event which will be presented using video conferencing software. Joining instructions and full guidance will be provided by the W&A Team a week before the event start-date.
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