The Writer's Workshop There’s still room in my Seattle writing class, Writing for Story, which teaches how to add dramatic, pacing and conflict to any narrative, essential tricks of the trade, whether in fiction or nonfiction. Details below. Let me know if you’d like to sign up!
Writing for Story: Summer Creative Writing Class
This summer I’ll offer a Creative Writing Seminar entitled “Writing for Story: How to Recognize, Organize and Write Narratives.” This course will demonstrate how to heighten conflict and resolution in fiction and nonfiction, greatly enhancing the readability and publishability of the finished piece. You’ll receive detailed, constructive criticism of your fictional and nonfictional stories and book chapters. In addition, we’ll discuss dramatic scenes, outlines, cover letters, and other topics of interest to you.
The course will run June 19 to July 31 on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. and one Monday evening July 8 in Room 221 of the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood (4649 Sunnyside Avenue North).
In addition to the classroom work, I will schedule individual conferences with each student. This will give me a chance to go over your story or book with you one-on-one and suggest ways to improve it. There will be six assignments: a 150- to 250-word story idea or book concept statement, a 250-word dramatic scene, a 25-word outline of your story, a 1500- to 2500-word story or book chapter and its revision, and a cover letter for your story or book. The cost will be $600 per person. Texts: Writing for Story by Jon Franklin; The Art of Fact edited by Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda. Both titles are available at the Elliott Bay Book Company.
To enroll, please send me check for $600 to 201 Newell St., Seattle, WA 98109. Enrollment is limited to 15. For more information, contact me.
