All About Writing's free creative writing webinar will focus on planning your writing and setting your writing intentions for the year.

We want to help you start your writing year on the right foot. We'll look at:

• Planning a writing project

• Developing your characters

• Creating good writing habits

You’ll set the agenda: we’ll be responding to your questions and discussing issues important to you. Send them to us in advance of the webinar.

Your hosts

Dr Jo-Anne Richards is an internationally published novelist with a PhD in Creative Writing from Wits University. Jo-Anne has published five novels: The Imagined Child, The Innocence of Roast Chicken, My Brother’s Book, Touching the Lighthouse and Sad at the Edges.

Richard Beynon  is a story consultant and an award-winning film and television scriptwriter with a long and accomplished career in the industry. He has written for – or headed the storytelling teams of many popular soaps, dramas and comedies. These include S’gudi snaysi, Going Up, Soul City, Isidingo, Scandal, Rhythm City and Isibaya.  A former journalist for the Rand Daily Mail, he has conceived, shaped and written scores of documentaries. He has lectured on writing for film and television at Wits.