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Screenwriting: Birthing The First Draft
Meditative Writing @ Virtual Classroom
Are you an artist and have the desire to write a screenplay but find that most approaches rob you of the art and feel like an algorithm meant to hack a system? Art cannot be planned. Great works require a surrender. Yet a screenplay is a beast and often times, complete surrender can leave you with 150 pages that you're not sure what to do with. This is why we've created a new workshop just for you. This is 8 weeks of assisted self-discovery...
Works in Progress
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
For nonfiction writers (eg. memoir, magazine, and personal essay) interested in working towards some form of publication. Each week participants share and discuss works in progress. The class has a special emphasis on how to use fiction techniques of narration, description, dialogue, and structure to improve each piece. Location Instructions: Students will need to check in with reception, and on their first visit they will need to check in with...
Storytelling Structure
What is it you want to say with that play? What perspective do you bring to the piece to make it uniquely yours? And, most importantly, why are you working on it in the first place? This 6-week seminar forces you to examine all of these questions in order to approach every play with the goal of telling this story right now and for this reason. With Tessa LaNeve, Director of ESPA and freelance dramaturg, you’ll look at work from Vince Gilligan to...
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Business Case Writing
KnowledgeHut @ Online, New York, NY
Corporate strategy execution depends upon developing and implementing the best solution in the workplace. Success factors however, rely upon basing the solution on the right requirements, drawn from a sound and robust Business Case. A well crafted business case document outlines the rationale for undertaking a business project. It should be a formal, written argument that argues the reasoning to convince a decision maker to approve an intended action....
Grammar for Business Communication
Review essential grammar required to communicate effectively in a professional setting. Topics include word usage, punctuation, syntax and proofreading basics.
Screenwriting: Getting Your (Second) Act Together
Full Course Name: Screenwriting Workshop: Getting Your (Second) Act Together The main enemy for the protagonist is the antagonist. The main enemy in writing a screenplay is the infamous Second-Act Problem. Meet your foe head on in this 2-day workshop, and explore strategies for developing a problem-proof premise and conflict. With Kate, you will take an in-depth look at how to excite your audience with a hero who is challenged along a meaningful...
Hudson Valley Introduction To Poetry (Online)
This class meets by live video; students are not required to live in the area. Students in The Writers Studio Hudson Valley Introduction to Poetry Workshop learn how to create a “persona” or “narrator” for the poetic form. Through the use of Writers Studio exercises, students learn to recognize what makes a poem engaging and entertaining to the reader. While creating a persona narrator is a primary focus of the workshop, students will...
Online Crafting Fantastic and Imaginative Worlds
Your favorite writers and poets of speculative literature (including science fiction, fantasy, and horror) use narrative techniques like persona narrators, point of view, mood, and tone as well as worldbuilding to craft fantastic and imaginative worlds that parallel, reflect, and critique our own real world. Imagining utopias, dystopias, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters, magical beings and systems, sentient cities and starships to speculate about past...
Playwriting II: Revisions
The Barrow Group Acting School
You’ll leave this workshop with a new set of skills and handouts to help focus your revisions. You’ve got a draft of a scene or short play – what’s next? Maybe you’ve heard your words spoken aloud and maybe you haven’t, but writing is rewriting and this workshop will give you a set of tools for your current and future work. Through exercises, examples and a series of questions, you will look at your plays with new eyes and fresh ideas....
Don't Think, Just Write - Online
Bronxville Adult School @ Virtual Learning via Zoom
You think about writing, but every time you face the blank page, anxiety takes over and you can't let yourself go. Maybe you have an idea for a novel, journal or essay, but feel confused and don't know how to start. This is the class for you! Each week we will have lessons on craft where you will learn basic techniques, like structuring your plot or creating a convincing dialogue. You will also learn how to better organize thoughts, call...
How to Free The Writer Within - Part 2
We have been asked to provide a follow up class to our “How to Free the Writer Within” – the introduction to memoir writing workshop, lead by author, entrepreneur, and lecturer, Marva Allen. To take this class as a prerequisite you would need to have taken a basic introduction to writing class, or our “How to Free the Writer Within” workshop, with clear understanding of such aspects as characterization, plot, voice and more. In this workshop,...
Elements of Playwriting
Irish Arts Center @ 150 W 46th St, New York, NY
From Farquhar to Beckett, to Behan and Friel, Ireland has produced many of the world's major dramatists. Join Playwrights Honor Molloy and Joseph Goodrich for an eight-week journey through the Elements of Playwriting. Character, dialogue and plot will be examined through writing exercises, table readings, as well as the study and discussion of selected scenes from Irish Theatre. Each participant will develop and complete a ten-minute play in the...
Playwriting II: Writing a Full-Length Play
A continuation of Playwriting I. Students will go from writing a short play or scene to attempting to write a full-length script. You will be guided through advanced writing exercises and reading of plays, and through in-class feedback and sharing, students will leave class with either a draft of a new work or significant portion of a completed draft. Come prepared to share pages, and are required to either supply their own printed pages...
Sketch Comedy Writing Studio
IN Studios @ 115 W 29th Street, New York, NY
Accelerate your writing and acting career! Create your own original sketch comedy material and develop your professional writing portfolio. If you've ever wanted to write for late night TV, it all starts here. Got an idea, or pitch or pages to read? We'll guide you through the process and help motivate you toward your goals. Work with supportive, sketch gurus every week. No experience necessary. Desire to learn is required! Our writers/performers...
Readying Your Book for Literary Agent Consideration
Ideasmyth founder, Victoria C. Rowan, has been acknowledged in many well-received and best-selling books, and has coached many authors who have earned six- and even seven-figure advances. So whether becoming an author has always been your most cherished artistic dream or the necessary next step for you to establish your professional expertise, why wait any longer to polish up your proposal for the fall market? This in-person, seminar-based workshop...
All levels
18 and older
Book Proposal Intensive
This in-person, seminar-based workshop will provide you with mentorship and support through a rigorous and pragmatic four-week program (plus two coaching sessions) as you complete a fully viable book proposal and agent cover letter, including (up to 120) proposal pages (with sample chapters) at a significant discount from Ideasmyth’s private editing and coaching rates. Whenever appropriate, Victoria will make personal introductions on behalf of...
Beginner
18 and older
Book Proposal Intensive
Ideasmyth at The Writers Room @ West 50's, New York, NY
This in-person, seminar-based workshop will provide you with mentorship and support through a rigorous and pragmatic four-week program (plus two coaching sessions) as you complete a fully viable book proposal and agent cover letter, including (up to 120) proposal pages (with sample chapters) at a significant discount from Ideasmyth’s private editing and coaching rates. Whenever appropriate, Victoria will make personal introductions on behalf of...
Beginner
18 and older
$1,450
Nonfiction Writing (Online)
Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ **Virtual Classroom
A writing workshop with poet & comedian Arti Gollapudi. A 101 in writing short comedic nonfiction pieces starting - from how to start writing to how to write a collection. Tips and tricks on how to edit, collaborate with other writers, DIY print, and get your writing out there. Over the course of this six-week class, each student will produce three short written pieces to a collaborative blog space featuring the pieces - as well as a final performance...
Print to Podcast
Print to Podcast(link is external) is an online only course for journalists who are ready to take their audio skills to the next level. Led by veteran audio journalist Robert Smith(link is external), this course is designed to recalibrate the skills that journalists have developed for print stories--interview technique, story structure, narrative writing--for an audio environment. This course is designed for experienced journalists and storytellers...
All levels
18 and older
Irish Language Literature: Deoraíocht
The novel's influence, Deoraíocht will be discussed in relation to Deoraíocht and other pioneering works of the same era. The classic Irish Language novel Deoraíocht, by Pádraic Ó Conaire was a pioneering book. Published in 1910 it is arguably the most important novel from the Gaelic revival. Deoraíocht portrays the life of a struggling immigrant in a very raw and honest way. The popular theme of alienation (coimhthíos) & urbanization...
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