What a perfect book format to illustrate the benefits and ramifications of one’s decisions than a Choose Your Own Adventure book or, as Laura Paisley Beck coined, an Interchangeable Action Novel© (IAN). Weave your own book of multiple endings with Beck’s tips, tricks, and super-secret codes in this fun, interactive workshop. Bring your wild imagination,…

Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, discovering the full breadth of a character is an important process. Moreover, we can use plot to discover characters as writers and to characterize more deftly for readers. This workshop focuses on using cyclical plot events as a useful device which may create unique characterizations, create more inventive prose…

In this three-day intensive fiction course, intermediate to advanced fiction writers will be reintroduced to some of the fundamental elements of fiction, including point of view, character, setting, dialogue, voice and style, plot, structure, and a story’s architecture and form. These topics will be covered in craft talks, then applied via a series of exercises…

This generative workshop is not necessarily for playwrights.  It is for anyone who is a beginning writer as well as a seasoned writer. The Ten Minute Play is a serious form, yes, but it’s also a terrific exercise for making a narrative of any kind.  It forces us to distill the situation, the characters, the…

This generative workshop is not necessarily for playwrights.  It is for anyone who is a beginning writer as well as a seasoned writer. The Ten Minute Play is a serious form, yes, but it’s also a terrific exercise for making a narrative of any kind.  It forces us to distill the situation, the characters, the…

This generative workshop is not necessarily for playwrights.  It is for anyone who is a beginning writer as well as a seasoned writer. The Ten Minute Play is a serious form, yes, but it’s also a terrific exercise for making a narrative of any kind.  It forces us to distill the situation, the characters, the…

This generative workshop is not necessarily for playwrights.  It is for anyone who is a beginning writer as well as a seasoned writer. The Ten Minute Play is a serious form, yes, but it’s also a terrific exercise for making a narrative of any kind.  It forces us to distill the situation, the characters, the…

This generative workshop is not necessarily for playwrights.  It is for anyone who is a beginning writer as well as a seasoned writer. The Ten Minute Play is a serious form, yes, but it’s also a terrific exercise for making a narrative of any kind.  It forces us to distill the situation, the characters, the…

As we approach Father’s Day, let’s spend some time remembering and writing about our fathers — the good and the not so good. Leaving out nothing, we will tell stories to better understand who our fathers were and who we are. Come prepared to remember. Come prepared to write. Come prepared to laugh and to…

As we approach Father’s Day, let’s spend some time remembering and writing about our fathers — the good and the not so good. Leaving out nothing, we will tell stories to better understand who our fathers were and who we are. Come prepared to remember. Come prepared to write. Come prepared to laugh and to…