Ideasmyth at The Writers Room Upcoming Classes in NYC

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$1,450

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Developmental Intensive

Ideasmyth at The Writers Room @ West 50's, New York, NY

Make your greatest ambition a polished–and published!–reality. Ideasmyth’s Developmental Intensive invites serious writers and creative professionals working in any genre and any form (memoirs, blogs, website copy, article pitch letters, screenplays, novels, one-person shows, poetry cycles, proposals, business plans, etc.) to prepare work for professional submission. Each class opens with a mini-lecture on an element of craft, working habits...

Intermediate 18 and older

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$1,450

8 sessions

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Speaking To Be Seen + Heard

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

Speaking To Be Seen + Heard: How To Connect With Audiences Live + On Camera With Katherine Wessling In today’s multi-media world it’s essential to effectively present yourself in front of various audiences—be it in-person or on video. Most people fear public speaking more than death itself, but you can learn to ace those stressful scenarios be they book readings, live panels, speed dating events, business presentations, Skype job...

All levels 18 and older

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$150

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Readying your Book for Literary Agent

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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

All levels 18 and older

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Readying Your Book for Literary Agent Consideration

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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

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Book Proposal Intensive

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Beginner 18 and older

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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...

All levels 18 and older

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$175

Spend a Day with a Literary Agent with Sheree Bykofsky

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This course will cover: How to effectively pitch agents The difference between a query letter, a pitch and a proposal How to develop ideas with true commercial potential How to write a query that really sells How to locate and work with the right agent What's hot right now in both fiction and non-fiction What to realistically expect in a first-book contract Why becoming a published author is just like being a contestant on Wheel of Fortune!...

All levels 18 and older

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The Habit of Writing with Anne Landsman

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Anne Landsman will give you the tools to create and sustain a lifelong writing habit. Standing? Sitting? Lying down? On a train? In a crowded subway car? On scraps? Scrolls? In ink? With pencils? Crayons? Morning? Noon? Or night? Virginia Woolf and Balzac wrote standing up, Gertrude Stein liked writing in a parked car, James Joyce wrote lying on his stomach in bed, Dickens wrote in blue ink, Lewis Carroll preferred purple. Kerouac wrote on a long...

All levels 18 and older

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Cultural Landscapes of Greenwich Village

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In this series of three walking tours, we will discuss the cultural and physical heritage of “Greater Greenwich Village,” with an emphasis on the writers, artists, and musicians who once defined Greenwich Village–and American culture–in the imaginations of people all over the world. Can we still find inspiration in the streets of the Village as we contemplate its past? We will also discuss the general history and architecture of the Village....

All levels 18 and older

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