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Exec-Comm @ Instructor-Led Virtual Classroom
Uncertainty and stress affect people in different ways. Well-intended comments and opinions can be misinterpreted, turning every day conversations into unproductive arguments – and misunderstandings become even more likely when we’re working remotely. Overview While you can’t avoid all work conflicts, you can change the way you handle these interactions. Exec-Comm’s Communicating to Resolve Conflict instructor-led virtual workshop will...
Gotham Writers Workshop @ Zoom Conference
Every writer needs a good editor to push the work to its best possible state. But your work won’t reach a professional editor unless it’s already in excellent shape. A dilemma, to be sure. That’s why you need to be a skilled editor of your own work. Perhaps your great ideas and stories are clouded by such things as clunky language, pallid verbs, excessive wordage, lack of emotion, and other amateur mistakes. Perhaps your work is fairly good,...
Improving Communications @ Online Webinar, New York, NY
Business people who know grammar judge others based on their correct (or incorrect) usage. Be the professional who is able to be clearly and correct in writing. Business Grammar & Usage: English Boot Camp is the answer for today’s business competitive environment. Interactive instruction and collaboration with your fellow attendees means that you will master the skills and apply your new knowledge to the classroom exercises and activities....
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Unlock your creativity and embark on a journey of storytelling with the Writing for Children course at Continuing Professional Studies at Bank. Discover your unique voice as you delve into the art of crafting captivating characters, engaging dialogue, and beautiful language. Join us and find pleasure in the world of children's literature.
Learn to write a funny, compelling story with Writing Pad. Master the art of character development, ways to land a joke well, and craft a well-organized line of thinking.
Gotham Writers Workshop @ Zoom Conference
Craft your voice and opinions into compelling essays with Gotham Writers Workshop. Explore personal essays, op-eds, reviews, and more in this course. Learn the art of persuasion and creative nonfiction structure to effectively share your viewpoints.
Santa Monica College @ Online Classroom, Los Angeles, CA
In a hands-on workshop featuring lectures, in-class writing exercises, and supportive feedback, discover how to write a comedic piece that is part story, part essay, part dialogue, and entirely, uniquely you. Learn all about the tools, techniques, and tricks that comedy writers use to get laughs in prose, screenplays, sitcoms, blogs, stories for live performance and even business presentations. You'll also make an exciting discovery: There...
Improve your writing by reading exciting poets! If you're a beginning reader of poetry or an already practicing poet, come discover the secrets of poetic form, metaphor, imagery, rhythm, and much more by looking deeply into the works of a wide range of poets – from Shakespeare and the classics to the best international, American, and LA poets—such as Kaveh Akbar, Nick Laird, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Charles Bukowski, Wallace Stevens,...
In Hollywood, a killer spec script of an existing TV show is excellent preparation for any staff writing position and a submission requirementfor all the coveted studio TV writing fellowships. Every word, page number, and formatting choice will be scrutinized to determine whether you’re an experienced insider or a fake. To write it properly, you’ll need insight that only an experienced professional can offer. In this six-week Online...
In most TV 1 classes, you learn so much about the writing process: developing interesting characters that will help you tell the story, creating setting and tone, finding a turn or change in scenes that will lead to a propulsive story that moves. But when the class is over, you find yourself in the same place every writer finds themselves: alone with a blank computer screen. Great ideas can be left unrealized, starting points hard...
Do you have a great idea for HBO’s next hit series? Let successful TV writer Michael Cinquemani (Jane the Virgin, Revenge) help you transform your brilliant premise into a page-turning script! In this 10-week Online TV Pilot writing workshop, you’ll learn how to craft a great logline, structure a compelling story, plan a season arc that keeps the audience hooked, and break your pilot story just like they do in the writer’s room. Michael will...
Everyone and their cousins have a blog. But how many are well written? Truly interesting or entertaining or useful? Maintained on a regular basis? Enjoyed by a wide circle of people? Precious few. The key is to write posts so good even total strangers will be drawn to your blog. Here you will learn the specialized craft of writing blog content. Writing conversationally, but not sloppily. Writing concisely, but with just enough substance. Writing...
You have all the elements of a great TV Comedy: a great premise, clear characters, an engaging world, and a solid beat sheet. Unfortunately, the thought of actually writing the pilot fills you with dread every time you stare down at the blank screen. No problem! Jack Kukoda (Superstore, Mr. Pickles) will take you through the paces in this 8-week Online TV Comedy Pilot Draft Writing Workshop. He will help you hone your beat sheets, turn them...
Unleash your creative potential and see your words come to life on the big screen, TV, or stage with Gotham Writers Workshop's Writing Scripts 101. Discover the essential techniques of dramatic writing and explore the exciting world of screenwriting, TV writing, and playwriting. Join us and embark on a thrilling journey into the art of storytelling.
THE PROCESS OF REVISION The 90-Day Rewrite is a guide through the second pass of your manuscript. The workshop will take you through an analysis of your material beginning with a new outline, and then dive into an examination of the story, character, dialogue, and prose. My goal as a teacher is to help you stay connected to your original impulse by asking the right questions. In the rewrite, it is often tempting to sterilize the complexity or...
Working together has its challenging moments, even in the best of teams. Each person brings different strengths, perspectives, preferences, and communication styles to the team – how do you adjust to each other’s styles and work together more effectively? And how do you avoid being misunderstood or misinterpreted, when you work with someone who has a very different style? Overview Communication practices frequently emerge from what feels...
The New York Screenwriter's Lab @ Virtual Classroom
The design of the 6-Week NYSL TV Pilot Workshop is to not only help you. develop your script, but to develop you into a truly self-sufficient writer. Rather than serving up a cookie-cutter formula, our goal is to equip you with a solid grasp of the fundamentals of screenwriting, so when you get that next idea for TV show, you won’t need another class. By fundamentals we don’t mean what is most basic, but what is most essential....
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
Discover the power of tapping into your memories and bringing them to life through vivid storytelling in this creative nonfiction writing class. Join Molly Wizenberg in this online workshop as she guides you in evoking your experiences and finding meaning in the raw material of your life. All skill levels are welcome.
A musical is only as good as its libretto, the piece that marries the plot and character development with musical composition. In this 8-week class, you'll focus on this main structural component of musical theater, developing the tools and framework of a musical theater piece. This class might be for you if you: An early-career librettist looking for a comprehensive introduction to this exciting and collaborative form. A playwright looking...
Have you always wanted to write a personal essay but you don’t know where to start? Or have you dreamed of seeing one of your essays published in the New York Times or Salon? Then this six week live online personal essay writing class is for you. Using fun in-class exercises, we’ll help you transform your bad blind dates and visits from unruly parents into insightful, compelling revelations. NY Times Modern Love alum Kalle Mattila (NY Times,...
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