HGS U3A Monthly Talks
Our monthly talks are held at the HGS Free Church, North Square, London NW11 7AG. Doors open at 14:30, and the talk begins promptly at 15:00, concluding at 16:00. The venue is fully accessible, with disabled toilet facilities available. We look forward to welcoming you.
Group Activities
For information about regular group activities, please see the A-Z list of groups and groups listed by day.
Monthly Talk: A Beginning, a Muddle & an End—Where do Novelists Get their Ideas?
Drawing on the experience of many well-known authors, in an entertaining, informative talk, Bobbie Darbyshire will explain how, from a few sketchy initial ideas and the wide variety of inspirational sources available to us all, invention gradually stimulates more invention to produce a novel. Readers and non readers will gain new insight into the creative process that all of us express in some way, and aspiring writers in the audience will learn they need no special skills, just the desire to write and perseverance.
Winner of the 2008 Fiction Prize at the National Academy of Writing and the 2010 New Delta Review Creative Non-Fiction Prize, Bobbie is the author of five novels, including The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker and The Third Bus. Before becoming a writer full-time, her career was in social research and government policy, including a stint as a cabinet minister’s private secretary. She has also worked as barmaid, mushroom picker, film extra, maths coach, care assistant, and volunteer adult-literacy teacher, and she has been hosting a writer’s group for 25 years.