If you want to write a story, The Write Journey will take you from inspiration, fully developing your idea, characters, and plotting, to writing your first pages. Celebrating 25 years of workshops and courses internationally, The Write Journey is grounded in the principles of Classical design created 4000 years ago. The Write Journey is instinctive and universal.
All writers get lonely, lost, annoyed, frustrated and muddled during the process of writing a story and need to take a road home to their writing selves. That road is The Write Journey, a journey into the heart and soul of the story, into the craft of writing, and ultimately into the art of storytelling.
It is about writing a universal story that reflects the uniqueness, history, and culture of who you are as a writer and what story you want to write.
Writing your story begins with you. You are your story. Writing is a passionate journey of sharing what you want to express to the world, letting passion fuel inspiration. This wonderful circle of creativity constantly feeds you as a storyteller and balances your left-brain consciousness and right-brain creativeness.
During the last 25 years, The Writing Studio has shaped the successful careers of many of South Africa’s leading filmmakers and storytellers and is now honing the skills of future writers in the art and craft of becoming skilled at visual narrative, writing marketable screenplays, novels, and stage plays. Read more
The Write Journey is an interactive, intimate, and introspective journey into the world of the story, empowering you to take ownership of the creative journey and creative expression.
Following 40 years as a Film and Theatre Journalist, and 25 years of screenwriting and creative writing workshops throughout South Africa and internationally, The Write Journey evolved into the Signature course of The Writing Studio, an Independent Training Initiative founded by Daniel Dercksen. READ MORE
The Write Journey for Screenwriters
This comprehensive course guides writers through the process of crafting a screenplay for film or television from inspiration to writing the first pages and is ideal for writers who want to adapt a novel for a visual medium. The course is done via email correspondence and offers one-on-one interaction. The Write Journey also offers an advance course, The Write Draft
The Write Journey for Novelists
This comprehensive course guides writers through the process of writing a novel and is ideal for writers who are interested in creative writing. The course is done via email correspondence and offers one-on-one interaction with tutor Daniel Dercksen.
The Write Journey for Playwrights
If you want to be a playwright and dramatist, The Drama Of Writing a Play takes you through the process of how to write a drama for the stage, from inspiration to developing characters and plotting, to exploring theme and dialogue, to writing the first draft and taking ownership of your creation. The course is done via email correspondence and is presented by Daniel Dercksen.
The Write Journey retreat for writers
If you need to break away to write your story, this interactive retreat offers an exclusive one-on-one session or group sessions in Prince Albert. The retreat will take you on a personal journey into how to discipline the process of crafting your story, developing your idea, characters and plotting to create a story the world needs to experience. It is presented by Daniel Dercksen.
The Write Journey Weekend Workshop
The workshop is ideal for screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, and anyone who has a story to write. All you need for the workshop is a notebook, pencil, and your IMAGINATION!
The workshop takes place in Johannesburg and is facilitated by Dirk Fourie, who received his Honours Diploma in Film and Television Production Techniques at the City Varsity Multimedia School in Cape Town. Between 2002 and 2007 he facilitated workshops in screenwriting and directing, through the Writing Studio, at the SABC branches in Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Johannesburg.
