In this one-hour workshop, you will be guided through a step-by-step guide on how to use locations to generate stories. This workshop offers an easy-to-use tool which can help you create a sequence of scenes, all integrally tied to the identity of a location. 

Using the concept of Archetypal Spaces, the exercise will help you create stories that feel thematically and deeply bound to a space, making your writing feel immediate and distinct.  By labelling, describing, and detailing locations, we will find common archetypes and themes that we associate with them. Using those archetypes and themes as tools, we will create a series of scenes and stories that encapsulate them. By the end of the workshop, you will have an outline for three scenes that can be used to spark their own story or add on to one already being written.

Archie Lamprell is an award-winning new screenwriter from the heart of the New Forest in the South of England. As a Blind/SSI writer, Archie’s work explores themes of alienation, alternate perspectives, and the uncanny mingling with the everyday.  With his background in theatre, having been an actor and then a secondary school drama teacher, Archie’s deep-rooted love of the arts has kept him going through rain and shine. From independently producing theatre as part of the Kymera Theatre Collective, to the several short films he has been a part of creating. With a pedagogical and curious approach to writing theory, his burgeoning role as an independent workshop facilitator is kicking off with energy and excitement.