A Roadmap for Plot: Using Character to Develop Story with Tim MacGabhann
Info
Date:
July 26, 2025
Time:
10.30am - 3.30pm
Location:
Irish Writers Centre
Price:
€25
Location: Irish Writers Centre
This workshop will take place in-person at the Irish Writers Centre on Saturday 26 July 2025.
We are delighted to announce the second in a new series of workshops for emerging writers – A Roadmap for Plot: Using Character to Develop Story with Tim MacGabhann.
About the workshop
Adapted from screenwriting, psychoanalytic theory and creative writing workshops, this one-day course is intended to help writers figure out what their characters want, and how this can drive – or frustrate – the movement of a piece of plotted fiction (long or short, fiction or nonfiction) from beginning through middle to end. Although suited to realist and genre fiction, some of these ideas and prompts can be turned inside-out, and used to serve an anti-plot or more experimental impulse. Suggestions on how to go in this inverse direction will also be explored.
This is the second in a series of intermediate-level workshops aimed at emerging writers, to be held at the Irish Writers Centre in 2025. In a gesture of equitability, each workshop has been priced at €25.
About the facilitator
PHOTOGRAPH: SIDO LANSARI
Tim MacGabhann is the author of the novels Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere, the long poem Rory Gallagher—Live!—at the Hotel of the Dead, and the memoir The Black Pool.
