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The Story in a Song: Finding the Feeling
Workshop 4: Do it for the Vibes
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Jo Gatford
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The Story in a Song: This is the Place
Workshop 3: Anchoring the setting of a story
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Jo Gatford
The Story in a Song: Building Character
Workshop 2: Exploring memorable musical characters
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Jo Gatford
The Story in a Song: Melodic Narratives
Workshop 1: The Literal Story in a Song
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Jo Gatford

May 2025

10 Creative Questions To Get Out Of Freeze-Mode
Fixion Lessons from May: Battling the Overwhelm
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Jo Gatford
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Submission Tips, Characterisation & The Story in a Song
NEW Writing Workshops in May and June
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Jo Gatford
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I Bet You Think This Song is About You...
The Story in a Song: A Warm-up Writing Exercise
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Jo Gatford
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Write What You Know: Collecting Characters in the Wild
A little light identity theft to hone your writing
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Jo Gatford

April 2025

Writing String Theory (How Long? How Short? How do you know?)
Fixion Lessons from April
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Jo Gatford
Context VS Subtext: The Reader as Detective
Editing tips to 'unf*ck your writing'
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Jo Gatford
How to Write with a Tiny Attention Span
Ooh, look, squirrel!
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Jo Gatford
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Creative Ups & Downs (& Circular Shapes)
Fixion Lessons From March
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Jo Gatford
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