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Reflect on the year that’s passed through the rhythmic form of the pantoum. In this generative writing workshop, we’ll begin with grounding and freewriting exercises, read a few pantoums together and then create collaborative group poems.…
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When writers create fictional worlds, they set certain ground rules for themselves: Does magic exist? How does it work? How strong is the gravity on the alien planet? What's not always so obvious is that writers can also create new rules…
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In this class we’ll explore that thing that goes hand-in-hand with the words in a song—the melody!
Why bother? Well, some songwriters feel that melody is paramount, maybe even more important than the words. Tell that to Leonard Cohen.…
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From an evolutionary perspective, humans are social creatures, deeply invested in the lives of the people around them—and perhaps this is why character and character development have become such essential components of the stories we tell.…
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A person “must have money and a room of her own if she is to write,” Virginia Woolf famously claimed nearly a century ago. Today, the advice has shifted: countless books and blogs promise that elaborate time-management strategies will help…
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In real-life, we get to know a person by observing them and interacting with them, making judgments and drawing our own conclusions. And fiction, like real life, tends to become more complicated when there’s more than one character.
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How do you structure a story or novel? To outline, or not? What makes a good beginning, and why do some endings work and others don't?
This workshop will discuss story structure from a variety of perspectives. Suitable for all genres…
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When we talk about inspiration we usually think of it as an external influence, something over which we have no control. Ideas “come to us” or we are “struck by the muse.” But what if we reframed our thinking around inspiration so that it…
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Life's odd, freaky, and downright embarrassing moments can be the hardest to write — and some of the best portals to creative truth. (Did you know the original meaning of "weird" is "‘having the power to control destiny?") In this workshop,…
