What Ghostwriting Taught Me About What Makes a Good Story

In a long and storied career, Ashley Stokes has been a published writer of fictions long and short across several genres; a TLC reader and regional ambassador; a creative writing lecturer and founder of a school; a small press publisher and editor of the critically acclaimed Unthology series, a copy writer and most recently a ghostwriter who undertakes fiction, non-fiction and business-related projects. In short, he knows what makes a good story GREAT.

In this session, Ashley will outline what he learned from each of these phases and stages, what each of them showed to him that has allowed him to build a formidable critical arsenal and in the end devise, shape, plan and write anything for anyone, whether an historical novel or a brand narrative. Come and learn with us how to build ideas into something that feels compelling and utterly readable.

About your speaker

Ashley Stokes is the author of Gigantic and The Syllabus of Errors as well as over a hundred short stories and essays. His most recent publication is The Eyelash Tarot Experiment: Mediations on Writing, Randomness and Hanging On, a collaboration with Eyglo Karlsdottir, published by Calque Press. He is currently Lead Writer for The Ghosting Company.

This event is free for members of TLC’s Being A Writer platform. If you are a member simply head to Circle to RSVP. A very limited number of non member tickets are available for purchase.