Connection Through Imperfection

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Connection Through Imperfection

Performance provides us with 'factory conditions' to understand our own reality – with John-Paul Flintoff

Dr Rachel Knightley

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John-Paul Flintoff

Jun 03, 2023

Internationally best-selling author, artist, journalist and speaker John-Paul Flintoff trained in improvisation with Keith Johnstone. He designs today's word-count workout alongside Rachel Knightley as they discuss the benefits of stagecraft on communication, and how performance provides 'factory conditions' for understanding your own character motivation offstage as much as on it.

John-Paul's books include the internationally bestselling How to Change the World, and A Modest Book on How to Make an Adequate Speech. John-Paul will also be joining the Writer's Gym's Green Ink Sponsored Write for Macmillan Cancer Support on 14 October 2023. To receive your world-exclusive anthology of new writing 48 hours after the event ends, click here.

Download your hard copy of today's Word-count Workout (along with a bonus extras) from 5 June by subscribing here.

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The Writers’ Gym Podcast

Fiction and non-fiction author, lecturer and writing coach Dr Rachel Knightley joins authors from across the genres. Each episode explores an author’s unique mix of memory, imagination, observations and questions about the world, and how that translates into their unique stories. There may be only seven basic plots but there are infinite original voices — come and unleash yours as you develop your creative curiosity, build your focus and explore the goals, exercises, tools and techniques to discover what you really want from your writing — and what your writing really needs from you.

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