Creating a Social Media Foundation for a Career as a Writer: an online workshop on building and navigating platforms
October 12, 2024, 12pm – 1:30pm PDT, online (Zoom)
Fee: $100
Although writing can be a solitary activity, putting your stories out into the world is a courageous act of engagement and community building. Building your platform as a writer and a storyteller is about creating the foundation upon which you can launch your stories, your books, your creative energy out to the world. Your platform encapsulates how you build momentum and position yourself within the publishing, writing and reading community. This workshop will explore the various strategies, outlets, and pathways a creative writer can take to effectively build and maintain a platform that will provide a foundation for success.
Topics will include:
- Creating a brand as a writer – or more importantly, a narrative of yourself as a writer that helps you to stand out
- Utilizing social media effectively
- Identifying and engaging with our writing markets and readers through our platform
- Building and fostering community to support our goals as writers and creatives
- Utilizing our platform to launch and maintain a successful writing and creative career
Presenter: Patrick Lucas
Patrick Lucas is a storyteller, writer and filmmaker from Vancouver Island. Throughout his life he has used writing and storytelling to explore and understand the world around him. Through his writing Patrick explores themes of conscientious travel, community, culture, sacred places, and personal revelation to gain a greater understanding of how we create a sense of place and belonging. He has been extensively published as a travel writer, social commentator, feature writer for numerous magazines, blogs and anthologies.
Patrick is also a successful public speaker and storyteller with appearances at numerous festivals and conferences including the Flame Storytelling series, World Storytelling Day, Sam Sullivan’s Public Salon, the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, and the Vancouver International Fringe Festival.
Patrick has been featured in, as well as co-written, produced and advised as a story consultant on numerous film and television productions. His most recent projects include an episode of Anthill Film’s award-winning documentary series Return to Earth on Outside TV, a short film, Allies, released on Redbull TV’s global broadcast of the Crankworx Mountain Bike Festival, and most recently, a feature documentary: Dirt Relations – the story of the Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program released as an Official Selection of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival which is now touring around the world. patricklucaswriter.ca
Instagram: @patricklucaswriter
Registration
Registration online at VMI website opens September 6, 2024 for former/current VMI participants and September 15 for general public.
Two funded community access seats are available for those from marginalized communities or experiencing hardship. To apply, please fill out the short application section of the online application.
Please note: the workshop must have a minimum of eight participants to run.