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Dreaming on the Page: Creative Empowerment
Dreaming on the Page: Creative Empowerment through Writing and Dream Analysis Nighttime dreaming and writing make perfect bedfellows. Tapping into the intersection of these two universal and powerful modalities will allow us to home in on the wisdom of our dreaming minds and supercharge our writing. Exercises, games, and guided meditations in a safe, supportive atmosphere will help us: Quiet the inner censor Tune into our subconscious minds ...
How to Write a Killer Magazine Article Pitch
Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 58 E 11th St, New York, NY
In this class targeted toward budding writers, learn how to come up with irresistable article ideas, how to get the attention of busy editors, how to target the right publication, and how to craft the pitch. Who is this class for? This class is for WRITERS who want to get their articles published in magazines. No professional writing experience required. Please note, this class is NOT for those seeking PR tips. What is this class about? Do you...
$50
The Science Behind the Libretto with Marsha Norman
With both an intuitive and a practical approach to a libretto’s unique dramatic structure, Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman will lead the class in an examination of classic and contemporary musicals. Marsha’s hands-on training of her peerless, award-winning technique will provide both musical theater writers and those artists interested in the form an intimate glimpse at the process of a master storyteller. Students should be well...
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Fiction Studio Session
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Interested in learning how to write fiction? An experienced fiction writer who wants to hone her craft? Want to take a writing class but not ready to workshop a story? An avid reader who wants to know how fiction is created? Newbies and long-term writers are welcome in this session to explore how authors use craft techniques to create exciting prose stories. Participants will complete at least two writing exercises—the first a warm-up writing...
$20
Get Published: A Primer for Writing for the Web
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
You may have heard it's tough to make money as a writer, but the truth is some of the largest publications in the world pay people like you to write awesome content that brings readers to their sites. If you're ready to see your own byline alongside your favorite writers on the media channels you visit every day, sign up for this primer in getting published on the web. Whether it's your dream to make a living as a writer or you're just hoping...
$40
Personal Essay Writing
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Everyone has a story. Now, it's time to share yours. Personal essays expose what makes us human. From fundamental truths about life to stories that illustrate the sheer absurdity of the world around us, our experiences shape us and help better understand one another — and ourselves. This class offers insight into the personal essay ideation process and will help writers draw out stories to craft into a narrative format. Open to all levels, we'll...
$25
How to Free The Writer in You
The Academi Of Life @ 155 E 55th St, New York, NY
Everything in your life, from the mundane to the extraordinary, is a story waiting to be told. Many of us want to leave behind a record of our lives that we were here. Yes, our footprint. In this workshop, you will discover your own unique and powerful story. We will use the memoir form of writing to encourage you to live out loud and to help you comprehend the value of your life. “If you are not afraid of the voices in you, you will not fear...
$125
Create or Die: Calling Forth the Writer Inside You
Forget everything you’ve ever been told about writing. No special talent is required; great writers are simply those who are disciplined enough to show up and prove to the Muses that they are serious. Today, best-selling author Pam Grout will share a simple five-line invocation and daily exercises that she has used as her inspiration over a 20-year writing career, which includes 17 books, and dozens of magazine articles for some of the leading...
Words as Medicine,Words as Makers of Worlds
The exploration of the self can be a perilous journey fraught with uncertainty and resistance from within and without. Writing, when approached with the right intent, can be a meditation and a way to come in contact with the unlit parts of who we are. This workshop is not intended to make you an author, but to help you use writing to connect you fully to the miraculous compass that is your mighty heart. Today, the award-winning writer, poet, educator...
The Writer’s Group: Fine-tuning Your Story
Continuing Professional Studies at Bank @ 610 W 112th St, New York, NY
The Writer’s Group: Fine-tuning Your Story in a Supportive Community We are offering this lab for a small group of committed writers who enjoy the writing process and want to come together each month to share their works in progress and receive feedback from other committed writers. This is a safe, supportive place to try out what you've been working on independently in a facilitated workshop. Occasional guest speakers from the publishing...
Writing Satire
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
If you're ready to share a bold statement but want to leave a more lasting impact than you might with a Facebook rant, join us to explore the art of satire writing. For people who love The Onion, Reductress, McSweeney's and even Shakespeare, this class will offer an introductory lesson in satire, complete with writing exercises to help you hone the craft. We'll cover approaches to satire and topic generation, and will also offer tips for maximizing...
$25
Online Writers In Seclusion
The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY
In this 6-week online class we will study how writers in seclusion and exile have turned their fear and anxiety into creative inspiration. Each week, we will try writing exercises based on fiction writers and poets such as Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. In the weekly chats, we will discuss the week’s exercise and explore the model’s basic technical issues. Chat transcripts are always available to students unable to attend. ...
Fiction, Non-Fiction and Cool Writing
I Write NY @ 100 Washington Square E, New York, NY
Songwriters and rappers read and write every day. NFL, NBA and MLB teams create written game plans to win. Broadway actors use scripts to tell meaningful stories. Effective communication is your key to success. Writing Coaches will provide middle and high school students with the tools to write and speak well, to be heard and not misunderstood. Develop the true grit it takes to write the stories you wish to tell—in your voice! Note: Bring loose...
$60
Spiritual Memoir: The Art of Self-Inquiry
This workshop is designed to introduce students of all levels—from non-writers to professional wordsmiths—to the art of spiritual memoir. When we learn to tell the whole truth about experience, to discern our own soul’s odyssey, we come to understand the mythic dimension of our personal struggles, triumphs, confusions, longings, digressions and so-called mistakes. Through writing exercises, storytelling and group interaction, we investigate...
Screenwriting Alchemy
Meditative Writing @ Virtual Classroom
4 Week workshop for Screenwriters, TV writers, & Web series creators First, middle, or final drafts. Learn how to turn any pages - into great ones. Cliche transforms into familiar but different, expository morphs into extraordinary, confusing into profound, and average into extraordinary. Discover how to shape-shift for the creation of a magnificent screenplay. In this workshop, we focus on you. Your mind, Your story,...
Meditative Writing: Healing Your Inner Artist
Meditative Writing @ Virtual Classroom
You know you are meant to create but you haven't been creating. Or perhaps you sit down but the process feels empty. Perhaps you haven't picked up your pen, paintbrush, guitar, or ballet slippers in months, days, years. You are suffering but don't know what to do or where to start. Or maybe you just might want to do some preventative care, knowing that the road will be hard ahead, so you want to give yourself the...
Meditative Writing Level 1
Meditative Writing @ 39 W 29th St, New York, NY
Meditative Writing Level One: The Process of Creativity & Story Mining At the intersection of science, art, and meditation we build an approach to writing that draws from the most powerful part of your mind. Cognitive and meditative exercises will be crafted specifically to help you get the most out of every writing session and discover the deepest truth of your unique voice. These tools can also be flipped upside-down to...
Writing a Killer Book Proposal
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Learn all the elements of a book proposal, supply you with a template for a proposal, and provide you with individual feedback on your book idea and the steps you should take next. If you have a great idea for a nonfiction book, the first step isn’t to create a complete manuscript. It’s to craft a book proposal that clearly describes your concept, why it’ll be compelling to a large number of readers, the ways in which you’d promote it to...
Rage Structure And Tradition
So you want to write a play. Is it going to be sweet? Pretty? Urbane? If so, take another class. During this 2-day workshop with Robert Askins, Tony Award-nominated author of Broadway’s deliciously devilish Hand to God, we’re going to explore our rage. This class might be for you if you: Are angry, disappointed, almost livid. Love works like Blasted, Look Back in Anger, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In this class you will: Talk about...
Seeing Between the Lines - God Said This
The dramaturg's job is to read between the lines and enhance a script with specificity and accuracy. This 1-night workshop will teach you to watch and read a play from the perspective of a dramaturg and see what you've been missing. With your eyes opened, you'll be able to incorporate dramaturgical practice into your work as a writer, actor, or director. This workshop might be for you if: You would like the ability to translate what you see on...
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