I’ve learned so much on John Yorke’s course — I understand what elements are required to make a story tick. I’ve somehow absorbed those over the duration of the course to the point where they feel really natural and intuitive. Writing the treatment at the end really opened my eyes to what doing this for…

The course really took me leaps forward in my planning and I know I will refer back to all the skills and knowledge I have learned over the course as I begin to run groups on my own, it has been an invaluable resource!

Even for people like me with lots of experience running writing groups, there’s lots to learn here. Fantastic value.

I loved the diverse reading materials, and varied assignments on offer, and the practical applications of what we learned through doing workshop plans, action plans etc. I feel it has greatly advanced where I am at in terms of running my own writing group. Vicky and Anne were incredibly inspiring and engaged, what a team!…

My first response to the end of course tutor feedback — wow, so many pearls with all our names reflecting in the light. Something precious to take away. Thank you.

I’ve loved being in this group and I’m sad to see it close. I’ve really enjoyed this course – I have found it stretching at times – in a good way – but thoroughly enjoyed it.

It’s quite amazing how this course has made me ‘see the light’ and has completely upturned the way I was seeing and structuring my story.

I’ve attended lots of different courses and workshops and its incredibly rare to get such detailed and focused advice that genuinely revolutionises how you approach your work.

I’m really chuffed with the feedback, especially pointing out where my ideas are not working and the suggestions for how to develop the story now are invaluable. I have a couple of weeks off now so this has come at a good time to spur me on to rework what I’ve done so far.

The notes in the final report were gratefully received and very meaningful to me after such all-out effort during the course. Both tutors were very constructive in their appraisals of my idea and David, in particular, so detailed with his notes.

The end-of-course feedback report was fantastically helpful — I’m already at my desk, working on the next version of my treatment.

The feedback report in particular was very useful. I have learned a lot, and I have loved it. I know I still have quite a bit of work to do, but I don’t mind hard work. All the feedback and encouragement has been extremely valuable. I feel much more confident about tackling difficult story lines…