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SUMMARY:Deep Revision with Katey Schultz
DESCRIPTION:Turn your messy draft into a story that sings.\n*STARTS TOMORROW\, OCT 7!\nTuesday(s) October 7\, 14 & 21\, 6-8pm CT\, via Zoom\nNonmember $150; Member $129; Student/Educ/Mil $105 \n \nJoin writers from across the country connecting on Zoom.\n \nCalling all experienced writers looking to level up! Give your written work a power boost and learn to revise like a pro. \nThis three-session workshop is designed to empower writers with revision techniques for memoir\, essays\, flash\, short stories\, or novels. Whether trying to revise a stand-alone chapter or considering the broader arc of your full manuscript\, these techniques are graspable\, effective\, and empowering. \nWe’ll cover these types of revision: thematic\, developmental\, sentence-level\, and structural. You’ll practice each technique using excerpts from your own work in progress\, which you should bring with you to class. You’ll come away with systematic tools to address areas for improvement\, as well as a re-invigorated understanding of the joys of revision. \nThis course is for intermediate or advanced writers who have\, at minimum\, worked through a partial or complete first draft of a full manuscript\, or who have published books and are ready to improve their next manuscript by learning how to become their own best editors. \nYou’ll walk away with pages in hand and new skills for every story you write.\nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nAn increased confidence in your ability to apply developmental\, sentence-level\, and structural revision techniques to your works-in-progress\nA re-invigorated understanding of the joys of revision and the key role it plays in the writing process\n\nRead Katey’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n \n\nKatey Schultz is the author of Flashes of War\, which the Daily Beast praised as an “ambitious and fearless” collection\, and Still Come Home\, a novel\, both published by Loyola University Maryland. Honors for her work include North Carolina’s Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction\, the Linda Flowers Literary Award\, Doris Betts Fiction Prize\, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year award\, gold and silver medals from the Military Writers Society of America\, the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year award\, five Pushcart nominations\, a nomination to Best American Short Stories\, National Indies Excellence recognition\, and writing fellowships in eight states. She has taught all over the country—at Interlochen College of Creative Arts\, Fishtrap\, 49 Alaska Writing Center\, StoryStudio Chicago\, and her own organization Maximum Impact\, among many others. She lives in Celo\, North Carolina\, and is the founder of Maximum Impact\, a transformative mentoring service for creative writers that has been recognized by both CNBC and the What Works Network.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/deep-revision-with-katey-schultz-3/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Playwriting with Mikaela Simon
DESCRIPTION:Write scenes that demand to be performed.\nSTARTS TOMORROW\, OCT 7!\nTuesday(s)\, October 7\, 14\, 6-9pm CT via Zoom \nNon-member $225; Member $194; Student/Educ/Mil $158 \nClass Closed\nJoin writers from across the country connecting on Zoom.\n \nHow do you write a story that comes alive on stage? Excellent theatre has a way of getting a great story up on its feet. But how do you tell a story on the page so that it comes to life on the stage?  \nJoin New Jersey-based playwright Mikaela Simon in this three-session course which will cover the fundamentals of writing a play. Workshop participants will learn how playwriting differs from other genres\, what “show don’t tell” means when writing for the stage\, and how to use it to create dynamic storytelling.  \nThis course will examine structure\, format\, dialogue\, monologues\, characters\, dramatic action\, and theatricality. Participants will explore these elements and use them to create their own short plays and/or scenes.   \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+.  \nWalk away with the first draft of a 10-minute play or the first few scenes of a larger work!\nStudents will leave this course with: \n\nKnowledge of how to structure and format a play\nAn understanding of playwriting elements and how to use them\nThe ability to apply the concepts to long-form works\, such as one acts\, full-lengths\, etc.\n\nRead Mikaela’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n \n\nMikaela Simon (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Jersey City\, NJ. She graduated in 2019 from Drew University with a BA in Theatre Arts. While in college\, Mikaela’s work was performed a number of times in the Plays in Process series\, and she was also a recipient of the Robert Fisher Oxnam Award for Playwriting in 2018\, resulting in a staged reading produced by the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Since graduating\, she has taken on the role of teaching artist for the theatre program at Yavneh Academy in Paramus\, NJ. Mikaela is also a multimedia visual artist\, and is very involved in the Jersey City arts community with her small business (@doodlealldayy). Writing has always held a special place for her\, and she looks forward to getting the chance to share the beautiful craft of playwriting with people who have a story to tell.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/introduction-to-playwriting/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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