A two and a half hour workshop involving discussion and exploration of what constitutes a back story for your characters. As writers, what do WE need to know about our characters that will enable them to react consistently to different scenarios/events? Objective: to develop an understanding of what makes a character 'tick', and how to use those attributes in our writing. Bring along your writing implements, and see where the discussions and exercises take you!

Local author Virginia Betts new book Burnt Lungs and Bitter Sweets is a gritty, dark tale of four friends, is set in Ipswich and takes us from the late 1970s punk era up to the present day. In conversation with Georgy Jamieson