The Heart of Storytelling
📓 Learn how to tell compelling, character-led stories that pack a punch… while nurturing your inner artist 🖋️
a course by the Story Producer of BBC’s Death Valley
I am SO EXCITED to be announcing the new online course I'll be running in 2026:
The Heart of Storytelling, will show you the building blocks of a compelling story, and how to make your idea work for any medium.
This course is packed with everything I wish all writers I’ve worked with knew about telling character-led stories that still pack a punch.
Bulk up your romances and friendship stories, breathe life and clarity into your genre, action-packed pieces, and bring it all together in a way that feels clear and authentic for YOU, while making sure you’re looking after yourself and nurturing your inner artist, through the ups and downs of the creative process.
The programme:
The course will be made up of with six two-hour online workshops focusing on:
Week 1: Premise, Theme, and Zeitgeist
Week 2: Story, Plot and Engine
Week 3: Tone, Comedy and Drama
Week 4: Building Characters and Journeys
Week 5: Relationships & Conflict
Week 6: Dialogue, Voices and Subtext
Join the waitlist to be notified when the course dates are announced + get access to discounted early bird tickets ⤵️
What’s the vibe? 👀
Come As You Are
Pyjamas, bed hair, low spoons, overexcited - this is an invitation to come to this course, and the sessions, are you are. Take however you are doing and feeling with you into the workshops, the discussions, and the creative exercises.
You Belong Here
This is a queer-friendly, neurodivergent-friendly course. You do not need to identify as either to join the course, but please know this is an unapologetically inclusive course where we’ll be cultivating radical acceptance, and vulnerability.
⭐️ What people say about working with me ⭐️
“Thanks to Laurie, I am writing poetry again, for the first time in a really long time. I’m really grateful that we met and that I have been able to find this part of me again.”
- Georgia
“Laurie created an incredibly safe environment to be vulnerable.
She was able to make space for the personal, emotional neurodivergent elements that were blocking me, whilst also keeping me on track towards practical solutions. She helped me see how to navigate necessary tasks in my own way, rather than be in a battle with them.
I truly wouldn't have gotten over the hurdles I was facing without Laurie's support.”
- Abi
"Before I thought I would eventually get around to writing, it was purely theoretical. Now, thanks to Laurie's help I know for certain I can do it and how to get myself to actually do it.”
- Jaume
“The space, the vibe, the warmth and safety you created with your approach and presence! It felt like such a true moment of connection, which I appreciated so much because that's not easy to find.”
- Rachel
Sign up to the waitlist!
Be the first one to hear when the course dates are announced, and get access to discounted early bird tickets!