Writing the Body: a Workshop for Health/Medical Workers and Caregivers
Doctors, nurses, health, or hospice workers–as well as many other professionals and caregivers–are always called to heightened service in their line of work, especially in the current climate of global…
Read MoreThe Nuts and Bolts of Scrivener
Scrivener is a streamlined and user friendly word processor that offers more to the writer than Microsoft Word or Mac Pages ever could. It’s designed for writing projects. You can…
Read MoreWriting About Caregiving
Caregiving can be conceptualized in many different ways. There is the caregiving that’s done for family members who are ill, elderly, and/or disabled and there’s also childcare. Caregiving is often…
Read MoreTalking Heads
Writing effective dialogue requires creating a conversation that’s direct, sounds better than people talk in real life, reveals character, and is incorporated into events that move the plot forward, all…
Read MoreAdvice from an Agent on Your Path to Publication
You’ve written your book, and it’s ready to send into the world. But how? In this seminar, we’ll look at everything from crafting a grabbing elevator pitch and where and…
Read MoreProfiting from a Critique
External feedback on your work is the most important way to grow your writing skills. But many writers fear public readings and critiques, hampering their advancement and self-editing process. Join…
Read MoreCreating Narrative Clarity
This seminar will focus on second draft editing techniques to help refine and clarify narratives. This seminar will incorporate four different revision techniques aimed at refining the narrative voice, and…
Read MoreWriting Gay Erotic Poetry
Since we learned to write, erotic poetry has been part of the corpus of poetry. Gay erotic poetry was always present, if subdued. We’ll do a quick timeline, from Gilgamesh…
Read MoreCreating a Magic System
More and more, fantasy readers are becoming invested not only in the compelling characters and fantastical locations of their favorite stories but the physical rules of the worlds those stories…
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time: Writing Narrative Poems
We usually think of fiction as the realm of story and poetry as the realm of lyrical meditation, but poems can also tell stories. We all have memories of stuff…
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