LABOUR WRITING MASTERCLASS - (excerpt)

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The Challenge of Finding a Publisher

Luath Press

Manuscripts submitted per year - hundreds

Titles published per year – 1 to 2%

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Ogden Nash

‘People who work sitting down get paid more

than people who work standing

up’

DESIGN CYCLE FOR MANUFACTURED GOODS

CYCLE FOR WRITING POEMS

1) Customer specification.

2) Designer produces plans.

3) Prototype build.

4) Prototype testing.

5) Prototype modification.

6) Production build.

1) Writer specification.

2) Writer’s plan.

3) Write prototype poem.

4) First draft testing.

5) Re-writes.

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The Fabrication Shed

Writing Prompt:-Write a poem / story, set in an environment you have worked in, using templates of characters you may have worked beside.

Read DEAR GREEN PLACE by Archie Hind.

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L S Lowry

Writing Prompt:-Write a poem / story, set around an environment you have never worked in. As an outsider looking in.

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