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How to Create Stories Your Audience will Love

General Assembly

Crafting Content Ideas: How to Create Stories Your Audience will Love In modern business, everyone is a publisher. Whether you're a freelancer, a growing startup or an established enterprise – quality content gives you an opportunity establish your credentials and build a meaningful relationship with your audience. You could be publishing your own blog – or using platforms such as Medium, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and podcasting tools...

Art Power Program (Pre-University Program)

Cornerstone Arts NY & Seoul

Art M Program (Pre-Master Program)

Cornerstone Arts NY & Seoul

Readying your Book for Literary Agent

Ideasmyth at The Writers Room

Course Design:   Two private half-hour brainstorming sessions with each participating client, one prior to class beginning and the other after the class ends  Everyone submits their class assignments every Sunday to a free class website Every week, we critique a sizeable section of your agent submission package  Everyone will be assigned a buddy to keep them on track between the Tuesday class and Sunday submission time

Meditative Writing: Level 2 Intensive

Meditative Writing

1st Draft or Rewrite.  2 Day Intensive (one day option available) Do you wish you could just lock yourself in a room for a weekend and bang out the majority of a rewrite or a first draft? Okay, let's do it. Use Intervaled Story Structure-Guided Visual Meditation to step into your characters at the top of each scene. Connect with the wants and needs of your character that build scene structure.  Last 2 day workshop the average writer...

Crash Course in Mistake-Free Business Writing

American Management Association

Discover How to Pinpoint and Fix Your Writing Errors Every time you send an email or submit a report, you are being judged on your writing skills. Business writing errors (even simple grammar mistakes) can complicate your message, confuse your readers, cost you money, diminish your professional image, and hold you back in your career. Good writing demands more than a quick scan for spelling errors. You need to consider punctuation, grammar, and...

How to Pivot in Times of Uncertainty

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

Travel Writing Workshop: How to Pivot in Times of Uncertainty Are you a budding travel writing enthusiast? Then this class is for you. This workshop will cover the elements of travel writing, including pre-trip research, using on-location experience to find an angle, telling the story, and engaging an audience. It will also include tips on how to leverage the learnings of this class in the current global crisis - with everything that’s going on...

Carolingian

Society of Scribes

The Carolingian minuscule (8th to 12th century) is considered to be the first fully developed minuscule (lower case) alphabet with legible, uniform, round, bouncy, branching shapes accompanied by capitals, word spacing, and punctuation. The minuscule was the precursor to other cursive alphabets: Italic, Foundational, Roman book hands, Blackletter, and modern typefaces which evolved in later centuries. Emperor Charlemagne, although...

Meditative Writing Level 2: TV Pilot Weekend Intensive

Meditative Writing

Write an entire draft of your TV pilot in one weekend! ​Using intervaled meditations we will write through an entire draft of your TV pilot in one weekend. Come in with a draft of your sitcom or drama, or with no pages at all, and leave with a draft of your show! In our last weekend intensive the average writer wrote 55 new pages by the end of the weekend. 

Poetry Path and Practice

Q.E.D.

Kyle Erickson, former high-school English Teacher (Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences), is leading a workshop for poets of all ages. Every person has poetry in their hearts, regardless of whether or not they know it. Walk in, grab a pen, and have fun!

Witches of Old New York

Q.E.D. @ Virtual Classroom

Did you miss our sold-out lecture in March? We’re bringing it back virtually on Zoom as a fundraiser to help QED reopen when they can. This lecture will be a special Mother’s Day edition, so you can share this in event virtually with your mom! On this talk, Marie Carter will take you on a journey back in time to learn about the women who were considered “witches” in pre-twentieth century New York. Learn about New York City’s only witch...

Psychology & Copywriting: Web Content That Converts

General Assembly

Do you struggle to write web pages, emails, blogs and other digital copy that capture and hold attention? Are you having trouble convincing online visitors and leads to say “Yes!” at the final step? Well here’s some invigorating news. You don’t need to be a pro copywriter to convert the curious into customers. The key to writing web copy that connects and sells is understanding psychological triggers - how people think, behave and make choices...

Screenwriting Shadow Structure

Meditative Writing

Are you feeling lost with screenplay structure but don't like the paint by number algorithms handed to the masses by the screenwriting books?Would you like to discover ways of approaching structure that allow your character and story to be as unique as you are while still meeting the requirements of the industry?Would you like to feel structure as an extension of yourself and your voice rather than an external attachment?Would you prefer...

Sports Writing and New Media

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

This hands-on course will cover reporting, writing, interviewing, and packaging of sports news for the web, tablet and mobile apps, social media, newspapers, and magazines. On Day 2, we will attend a college basketball game at Columbia University, which students will cover in the format of their choice.

Open House - All Programs

Borough of Manhattan Community College @ 25 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY

Come and see all of our programs that are offered:  Allied Health Emergency Management ESL Media Arts  Modern Languages Professional Development & Technology

Brooklyn Public Philosophers Kids Edition

Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Philosophers Kids Edition: The Philosophy of the Emotions Tonight is a Kids Edition of Brooklyn Public Philosophers. All children ages 9 to 12 are welcome! What is an emotion? Is it something you feel inside, or is it something you do or show to other people, or is it something else? Can emotions be rational or irrational? What would life be like if we didn’t have any emotions? Popular movies like "Inside Out," TV shows...

Mindful Writing: Virtual Workshop

Bhagavat Life @ 25 1st Ave, New York, NY

You don't need to burn the midnight oil or drink cup after cup of coffee to be a successful writer! Gain momentum in your personal writing practice and projects by learning holistic approaches to enhance your ability and inspiration. Explore specific meditation and writing exercises that bring awareness to what grounds, balances, and inspires your creative writing practice. There will be plenty of time to write. 

Excel for Journalists

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Students willl learn how to work in a spreadsheet to add context and depth to an existing story or find a new stories to pursue and also how to import data in Excel and how to analyze it. Among the concepts you’ll learn include how to sort data, apply formulas, and create a chart. Many computer-assisted reporting stories can be done using just Excel. This class will give you the tools necessary to start doing those stories. You will also...

Advanced Research and Reporting with Katherine Wessling

Ideasmyth at The Writers Room @ 740 Broadway, New York, NY

Whether you’re writing a nonfiction book, a magazine article, or checking the facts about anything that really matters to your health, home or livelihood, the ability to cultivate and interview sources and/or find the information you need online is important. Quality intel is all. High-quality info gives any writer a major commercial edge that is reflected in the premium fees offered for investigative features and non-fiction and historical fiction...

Introduction to the Sanskrit Alphabet

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center @ 243 W 24th St, New York, NY

Explore the sounds and symbols of the Sanskrit alphabet, which reflect the primal sounds of the universe. Learn the writing of the Devanagari (“language of the gods”) script, as well as proper pronunciation of Sanskrit words and mantras. Sessions will include the following: What is Sanskrit? What is the structure of Sanskrit sounds and letters and how does it differ from English? What are some tricks to learning the Devanagari characters?...