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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