MAKING STORIES WITH MAXIMUM EMOTIONAL IMPACT
WHAT IS DEEP NARRATIVE DESIGN?
Sometimes a story really moves us - but we can't see how.

Its active ingredients may be hidden at unconscious levels, poised to take effect later, contributing to an ending with maximum emotional impact.

The hardest part of writing isn't having a good idea. It's knowing how to tell it in the most compelling way.

You may know what you want your audience to feel. ​But...

What narrative shape best communicates the ideas and emotions you intend?

How do different story designs change a narrative's emotional impact?

And how can you be sure you're creating an emotional journey which becomes richer as the story develops, paying off in a truly satisfying way?
WHAT THE WORKSHOP WILL DO
Drawing on cutting-edge techniques from recent TV series as well as forgotten methods from classic films and prose fiction, it will:

  • Show how narratives can be designed to evoke suspense, identification, anticipation, surprise, shock, and powerful reversals of expectation.
  • Give you the tools to ensure that your story is designed to maximise its emotional impact and deliver a satisfying experience for your audience.
  • ​​Suggest how narrative design can help to define characterisation and visual and sound approaches, ensuring that they work together to support a story.

The workshop will stimulate your writing by giving you a range of new tools, strategies and approaches. 

Fully illustrated with entertaining clips, and including exercises and reading material, the workshop will help you to better understand:
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  • The narrative shape which will communicate the ideas and emotions you intend 
  • How different story shapes and ways of using information change a narrative's emotional impact
  • How to create an emotional journey which becomes richer as the story develops - and pays off in a truly satisfying way

​The workshop includes a short story to be read before the day, and much supporting material to refer to afterwards.
WHEN, WHERE AND HOW MUCH?
DATE AND TIME

Friday April 4 2025
10.00am - 5.30pm
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​VENUE

Prospect House
100 Rochester Row
London SW1P 1JP

(Close to London Victoria)

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PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED - PLEASE BOOK EARLY USING THE BUTTONS BELOW
STANDARD PRICE:  £105

​CONCESSIONARY PRICE: £95 

Available to members of our affiliated organisations - the Society of Authors, Writers Guild of Great Britain, Women in Films and TV and Directors UK - as well as students and other concession holders

​BECTU MEMBERS PRICE: £75

DEEP NARRATIVE DESIGN + NEO NOIR WORKSHOPS - SPECIAL OFFER - £180

​ABOUT IAN​ LONG
​​I'm a writer, script editor and story consultant. Recent writing projects include the psychological horror feature STARGAZER (to be released in 2025) and MALEDICTION, a folk-horror drama set in rural Italy, now in pre-production. 

I head Euroscript's Consultancy services and also teach workshops in Deep Narrative Design, Making and Breaking Patterns in Creating Fear in Films, Writing Speculative and Science Fiction, and Writing Horror.

Email me for further information​
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