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SUMMARY:Creating Scenes that Move the Story with Desiree Kannel
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Dec 2\, 10am-2:30pm CST (with 30-minute lunch)\, Hybrid (via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nInstructor: Desiree Kannel\nNonmember: $105; Member: $90; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nGreat novels and short stories use scenes to gain momentum\, escalate conflict\, and reveal character. But how do writers decide which scenes push the action forward and which ones stagnate the story with unnecessary details? \nIn this 4-hour workshop\, writers will analyze scenes from their own work and learn how to decide what to cut and what to revise. We will discuss scene structure\, effective transitions\, and how to let character motivation drive the plot instead of the author’s agenda. Writers will leave with a better sense of what may be missing from their work in progress and tips on how to move forward. \nThis workshop will include exercises on dialogue and setting. Each student will be asked to bring a scene from their own work to be revised in class. \nThis course is open to fiction writers of all skill levels\, 18+. Writers who have written the first draft are encouraged to attend. \nYou will leave this workshop with: \n\nA new approach to scene writing with purpose and movement\nIdeas of what details can be cut and what to keep for revision\nKnowledge of how to transition in and out of a scene\nAn edited piece of previously written work\n\nRead Desiree’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nDesiree Kannel is a writer and teacher from Southern California. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University\, Los Angeles\, and a post-grad certificate in Rhetoric & Composition from California State University Dominguez Hills. Desiree’s fiction has appeared in the Running Wild Anthology of Short Stories (2019)\, Fourth & Sycamore\, and others. Her novel\, Lucky John (2020)\, was a finalist in the African American Fiction category in the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Her second novel\, The Delany Bennets\, was published in October 2023. Desiree leads creative writing workshops online and locally and is a Gemini Ink teaching artist.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/creating-scenes-that-move-the-story/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20231218T183000
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2023-12-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20231220T183000
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2023-12-20/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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