Defying Genre: Exploring Experimental Writing, Part 2
Experiment With Genre-Bending Forms and Consider How Invention, Imagination, and Formal Experimentation Can Deepen a Work Rooted in Lived Experience.
Experimental Stories– Playing with Fiction and Form
Looking at Epistolary Fiction, Interactive and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Narratives, Ways to Generate Ideas From Other Media, Unusual Points of Views, Metafiction in Short and Long Fiction, and Other Unconventional Forms.
Messier First Drafts: ALL Your Ideas Belong Here
The Sloppier The First Draft is, The Better The Finished Draft. In This Workshop We’ll Play With Strange Prompts That Lead to The Kinds of Stories You’d Never Normally Write.
Rhetorical Techniques in Flash Fiction
Experiment With a Variety of Different Linguistic Methods — From Anaplosis to Zeugma! — To Develop Flash Stories Full of Rhythm, Emphasis, And Meaning.
Introduction to Writing Historical Fiction
Introduction To Writing Historical Fiction
Defying Genre: Exploring Experimental Writing, Part 1
Experimental Writing is a Three-Part Series For Writers Ready to Break Free From Traditional Genre Conventions and Discover New Possibilities For Their Work.
Unreliable Narrators
Learn to Build Compelling Characters Whose Flawed Perceptions or Hidden Agendas Transform a Simple Tale Into a Captivating Puzzle.
The Second, Third, or More Lives of Your Stories.
This Workshop Will Examine Some Methods And Strategies For Would-Be Working Authors Who Want To Sustain A Career And Build Their Platforms
Novel Architecture, Part 3
We’ll Dig Beneath The Typical Blueprints of Novel Architecture To Look Into Some of The Less Obvious Structural Sources of Narrative Drive.
Finding New Story Containers: Explore Alternative Formats
Step Outside Traditional Prose. This Session Provides Guided Prompts And a Supportive Space To Play, Creating Surprising Work From Unique Containers.
People-watching: Creating Authentic Characters
Get Inside Your Protagonist’s Head, Elevate Emotion, Deepen Meaning, and Create Vivid, Realistic and Nuanced Characters
The Art of the Short Story, part 3
Dive Deeper Into Techniques We Can Use To Improve Our Own Short Story Writing.
The Art of the Short Story, Part 2
Create That Feeling That Stays With You Long After You Finish Reading?
Screenwriting for Beginners
This Short Workshop Is Designed For Prose Writers Who Want To Learn How To Translate Their Work To The Screen.
Novel Architecture, Part 1
If You Were To Draw A Simple Diagram of The Plot of Your Novel-in-Progress, What Would it Look Like?
The Art of the Short Story, Part 1
Dive Deeper Into Techniques We Can Use To Improve Our Own Short Story Writing.
Making It Make Sense: Using Genre to Solve Plot Problems
This Lesson Explores How Understanding And Leveraging Genre Conventions Can Help You Identify Plot Problems And Come Up With Compelling Solutions.
Decoding Voice
A good voice could describe a ketchup bottle and be utterly compelling.