Mandy Lynn Lara

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Get Inside Your Character’s Head: Effective Storytelling Across Genres with Daniel Peña

Online via Zoom

In this 2-day multi-genre generative workshop, we will explore how to uncover a character’s fundamental truth and use it to shape a strong protagonist who creates persona-driven fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. We will also look at how to create shifts in character that make for exciting epiphanies and conclusions that land like lightning bolts on the page. Participants will also practice blending genres to create singular forms that best fit the story they are trying to tell.

$155

Gemini Ink Holiday Open House

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

Join us as we eat, drink, and merrily toast the closing of 2024 with our literary community of writers and friends. Drop by when you can, leave when you need to.

Stay long enough to have a little eggnog and comfort food. Wine, non-alcoholic beverages, coffee will be served. We will provide the main fare, but you are also invited to bring a store-bought or prepackaged food item to share.

Free
Recurring

Open Writer’s Labs

Online via Zoom

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.

Free

LitMinds Book Club

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We're reading The Spirit Catches...

Free

First Page Fiction Bootcamp with Chaitali Sen

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

In this one-day workshop, we will study and discuss various examples of compelling first pages to see what works; we will review craft elements such as character, setting, point-of-view, and narrative voice; and we will write and examine our own first pages in a safe, supportive environment. 

$140
Recurring

Open Writer’s Labs

Online via Zoom

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.

Free

From Story to Song: Crafting Memorable Lyrics with Nathan Brown

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

In this two-day workshop, we’ll compare and contrast the worlds of story and songwriting, uncovering their similarities and differences while discussing what makes a song lyric unforgettable. Then, we’ll use real-world examples to highlight the rich narratives that live behind some well-known tunes that we love.

$140

Story Core with Rubén Degollado

Online via Zoom

In this six-session generative virtual workshop, participants will begin by exploring examples of the core elements of setting, plot, and characters working well together to create a cohesive storyline. We will do pre-writing exercises focused on drafting complicated characters who connect to the reader’s emotions and make them want to keep reading.  Then we will move through a series of setting exercises that build the details of place and transport the reader there. This generative work will prime writers for creating memorable stories with believable characters navigating the worlds they inhabit.

$155