If you are preparing your manuscript for the 2022 Writing Award or for any other writing contest, you need to ensure you have several writing techniques to turn the pages so the reader-judges will be hooked on your submission and award you top marks.
Here's how to do that. Over the past two years, Page Turner Awards has seen what captures a judges' attention quickly. From literary agents to publishers to film producers and literary experts, they all agree on several crucial elements in the first ten pages of any piece of writing.
Join our Ten Page-Turning Techniques For Your First Ten Pages Boot Camp which will be run as a Virtual Writing Retreat over five consecutive days.
Who Should Attend?
- Writers just starting out in their writing journey who want to develop their writing
- Writers targeting literary agents to possibly represent their writing
- Writing contest entrants who are working on their manuscript and want to impress a publisher who is judging a writing contest
- Established writers and authors who want to ensure their novels hit the ground running with compelling opening pages
- Authors and writers who need to learn more about writing techniques to enhance their writing
What You Will Learn
Ten Page-Turning Techniques For Your First Ten Pages Boot Camp will show you:
- How to capture a reader or judges attention within the first sentences of your writing
- What to write to engage them to continue reading
- How to craft a compelling opening from a character's point of view
- How to use picture-writing techniques to ensure the reader or judge can't stop reading
- These Ten Page-Turning Techniques can be used throughout your piece of writing, but they are vitally essential in the opening pages to draw the reader or judge into your story
Interactive Learning
During the week you will have the opportunity to apply each day's learning to your first ten pages and then to share it with the writing group.
At the end of the week, you will be fully armed with all the ammunition needed to fire your best shot at any judge in any writing contest.
If you aren't able to apply the day's Page-Turning Techniques, no worries, we all live busy lives made busier with C19 restrictions. Or you can ask questions about a challenge and receive group feedback.
This is NOT meant to be intimidating or daunting! Instead, for those who are not web-savvy, it will be like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon. And web-savvy writers who are thrilled to crack an activity in the homework, can share what they did and how.
Tutor Paula Wynne
As an award-winning entrepreneur (eight business awards) Paula Wynne has appeared on TV several times, including breakfast shows and has been featured in various magazines and national newspapers.
Paula and her husband Ken Sheridan starred in the BBC Show, Escape to the Continent, which showed their quest to live in Spain, so Paula could become a full time writer. Instead of doing just that, they have founded several businesses to help writers and authors, as well as Paula finding time to write.
Find out more about Ken and Paula Sheridan (Team Sheridan).
For many years Paula has been obsessed with learning everything to improve her writing. She has acquired a bookshelf of excellent reference books by highly acclaimed authors, so she wrote Pimp My Fiction: Secrets of How to Write a Novel. This inspired a Writers’ Resource Series with 101 Writers’ Scene Settings and A~Z Writers’ Character Quirks.
Paula received an ‘Honourable Mention’ in the 75th Annual Writers Digest Writing Competition for two unpublished novels, which inspired her to continue writing. She went on to win the People's Book Prize for her debut novel, The Grotto's Secret. That award inspired Paula to create her own unique writing contest, which became The Page Turner Awards.
Paula has been featured on many news shows, radio broadcasts, in newspapers and magazines and she also speaks at seminars across the UK.
As well as achieving eight business awards with Ken, Paula also won a bursary from Screen South UK to do a film director's course.
Register Your Interest
We're currently putting the final plans together for this Ten Page-Turning Techniques For Your First Ten Pages Boot Camp, so we don't have a firm date yet. It will be within the next couple of months, while the judging is taking place for the 2021 Page Turner Awards. And it will be at a time most convenient for all global time zones, such as late afternoon CEST (EU time) and BST(GMT Summer) and early morning in Australia or mid to late morning USA.
Please register your interest below to be notified first of the dates. There's no commitment to do the Boot Camp, you'll simply be notified, and you can decide if the dates work for you.
We're also running a Book Adaptation To Screenplay Boot Camp and you can select that below if you'd like more information to be sent to you.
