Upcoming Courses and Workshops
Interview Your Story Workshop
Dates: Sunday, September 8 – Saturday, September 21
Where: Online via Yahoo Groups
Where: Online via Yahoo Groups
Subsidized cost: $35
Open to: Members of SinC Guppy Chapter
The workshop will guide the author in examining his/her story in series of daily Q &A sessions. There are three basic Question areas: The Story, The Storyteller, The Audience. The goal of the course is to allow the author to examine his/her story in great depth. A secondary goal is to help the author articulate what this story is about, why he/she is the perfect person to write it, and identify and write to the perfect reader for this story. Daily Topics below:
Sunday: The Crime
Monday: The Sleuth/s
Tuesday: The Story World/Setting
Wednesday: The Quest and Emotional Journey
Thursday: Theme
Friday: Plot Points and Structure
Saturday: Secondary Characters and Storylines
Sunday: catch-up
Monday: Suspects, Cops, Clues, Red Herrings
Tuesday: Story and Character Arcs
Wednesday: Resolution and Aftermath
Thursday: The Author
Friday: The Audience
Saturday: Putting it all Together
Sunday: catch-up
Writing A Novel: You Can Do It! series
Writing a Novel: You Can Do It! will be offered by the Harford County Public Libraries, Havre de Grace Branch in Havre de Grace, Maryland
This 4-part writing session is offered in advance of 2013 National Novel Writing Month in November. The sessions are free and open to the public, but registration is required. All sessions will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Mondays. To register, call 410-939-6700.
Monday, Sept. 16: Session One, Intro to NaNoWriMo presented by Lauren Carr
Monday, Sept. 30: Session Two, Preparing for a Month of Intensive Writing, presented by Ramona Long
Monday, Oct. 7: Session Three, Settings, Dialogue & Mind Games, presented by Lauren Fox
Monday, Oct. 21: Session Four, Structure: Beginnings, Middles & Ends, presented by Ramona Long
Scene Writing Workshop
This online workshop is sponsored by the Mary Roberts Rhinehart Chapter of Sisters in Crime. To register, visit their website.
When: Sunday October 13, 2013 – Saturday October 26, 2013 (2 weeks)
Where: Online via Yahoo Groups
How Much: $50 for Members, $60 for Non-Members
This course will examine the nuts, bolts, and necessities of good scene writing, addressing questions such as:
- What is a scene?
- What should a scene accomplish?
- What are different types of scenes?
- How do scenes move a story?
- How do scenes work as set pieces?
- How do you write an effective scene?
- How do you insert subtext into scenes?
This workshop will be devoted to understanding, planning, and writing different types of dramatic scenes. The topics will include scene structure; scene goals; working with a scene checklist; and types: romance, action, fight, sex, introductions, contemplation, etc. Although there will be exercises, a work in progress or story idea would be helpful, so authors can work on scenes from their WIPs.
Preparation
This workshop will better serve writers of some experience as opposed to someone who has never written before. However, anyone who wants to learn about scenes and scene structure would benefit. A work in progress or, at the very least, a concrete story idea would be necessary, because this is a hands on workshop. We will discuss the different scene types, and I’d ask students to search within their drafts for types of scenes as examples. If that’s not possible, participants may have to write a new scene for the class.
Ramona DeFelice Long 
You’ll be in my neck of the woods when you come to the Harford County Library. I’ll have to see if I can get to your talk. I keep threatening to do NaNoWriMo and never get around to it.
LikeLike
That would be excellent, Lynn! I didn’t realize you were so close.
LikeLike