Seminars offered during the camp:
Letting the Muse Flow: Exploring
and Manifesting Your Creativity as a Writer
A
discussion of the right and left brain dichotomy; exercises accessing
the creative right side; relaxation techniques; dealing with the “inner
critic”; recognizing, accessing and maintaining “the flow”; creating
discipline; creative techniques for finding the story.
Building the Container: Developing Skills,
Strategies & Discipline to Capture Your Creative Flow
This
seminar will focus on finding the proper time and space to write;
recognizing your creative cycle; thinking like a writer; finding your
passion; formulating personal writing goals; how to live the writing
life; knowing yourself (and being self-reflective and honest with your
strengths and challenges); knowing the genre, the market & how to
choose your story/subject; innovative research techniques; building the
road map of your book; building the road map for your writing career.
Techniques of Fiction – For Fiction and
Nonfiction Writers
Exploring
fiction including structure design and pacing; finding and developing
your character including character arc; successful plot structure
including elements of plot, plot organization and plot arc; elements of
setting including finding your setting and using setting as a character;
showing vs. telling; and revision techniques.
Creative Nonfiction – For Nonfiction and
Fiction Writers
This seminar will discuss the “rules” and integrity of
this new genre and will demonstrate ways in which fictional techniques
(such as: narrative structure, theme (versus
plot), have been used by the masters of nonfiction to tell engaging and
page-turning true stories. Students will also
learn that nonfiction books are most often sold to publishers through a
proposal rather than a finished manuscript. We
will take apart a winning proposal in order to understand the elements
and style that make for a sale to a publisher.
Understanding
How the Publishing Industry Works and How to Make it Work for You
A review
of the different writing possibilities plus requirements and guidelines
for publishing; an overview of the current industry trends; an
explanation of the roles of agent, editor, and publisher; targeting the
right agent and recognizing warning signs; advances, royalties, and
selling rights; shopping the ms, query letters, manuscript &
proposal preparation; and the differences between selling fiction and
nonfiction.
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