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Portland workshops Workshops Writing Retreat Zoom Retreats

Zoom With Us in 2021!

Let’s Go Write presents

REFRESH  ✪  RENEW ✪  RETREAT

Four One-day Zoom Workshop / Retreats

Come Zoom With Us

Our one-day December Zoom session went so well we decided to do it again – and again. So we’re offering a Saturday retreat each month from January through April. It’s your chance to write and enjoy writerly camaraderie – instruction included – even in lockdown.

Our theme is Fun with Fundamentals. Here’s the schedule:

January 16                            CHARACTER

February 13                         STRUCTURE

March 13                              STYLE AND VOICE

April 10                                 SETTING

Each workshop will include

  • Get acquainted: meet your fellow writers and learn about their work.
  • Ice-breaker exercises
  • Write away from the eye of zoom, then check back in and write some more.
  • Lunch on zoom or off, your choice,
  • Writing experiments for fun and felicity
  • Really? More writing! We’ll provide prompts.

THE DETAILS:

8-student limit; $97, or  $350 if you commit to all four

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To register, email Debbie: dguyol@aol.com  or Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

Portland workshops

Finding the Flash

FINDING THE FLASH

A One-day Workshop

Let’s Go Write presents

SATURDAY, December 14, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

We’ll devote the day to the very short form known as flash – both fiction and nonfiction.

1.         What is it? Defined by word or page counts, it aims for maximum punch in a small space. We’ll discuss the form in general.

2.         Flash nonfiction: What makes an essay an essay

We’ll address the many forms an essay can take, the many elements it can comprise. And we’ll give you an example or two of flash essays to read ahead of class

3.         Brainstorm essay ideas. We’ll provide prompts too!

4.         Try your hand: draft your own flash essay

5.         Flash fiction: How does a very short story work

Another brief discussion: the elements of a short story, beginnings, middles and sometimes-daunting ends, character arc; what it needs, what it can do without. And examples to read before class

6.         Brainstorm story ideas – with prompts of course!

7.         Draft your own very short story

8.         Plenty of time to continue work on your preferred

            flash form – essay or short story.

THE DETAILS:

Cost: $9, lunch included;

ten-student limit

Venue: TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont Street, Portland

http://letsgowrite.com/ Debbie: dguyol@aol.com  Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

Portland workshops

Refresh, Renew, Retreat: Four One-Day Workshops

We offered a one-day retreat back in March and many writers said they’d love to do it again, even on a regular basis. So we’re offering a Saturday retreat each month from May through August.  Participants got tons of writing done and enjoyed writerly camaraderie throughout the day. There’s something really energizing about writing in a group!

–Working on a project?
–Need a boost?
–Crave time away to devote to your writing?

Come Write With Us!

Our plan for the day:
–Get acquainted: meet your fellow writers and learn about their work.
–Take a prompt or a writing exercise! We’ll provide you with a whole bunch so you can choose one tailored to your project or your needs.
–Write write write, then check back in with us and write some more.
–Communal lunch and free-range discussion – problems, questions, triumphs?
–Have a goal for the afternoon, keep writing.
–Reconvene for a dash of instruction, precise subject TBA.
–Really? More writing!
–One-on-one consult with Debbie or Charlotte at some time during the day.

THE DETAILS:

May 18, June 15, July 20, August 17, 2019 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97215
$97 including lunch; 8-student limit

http://letsgowrite.com
Debbie: dguyol@aol.com Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

Portland workshops Workshops Writing Retreat

Refresh, Renew, Retreat

Let’s Go Write presents

REFRESH  RENEW  RETREAT


A One-day Workshop / Retreat

–Working on a project?
–Need a boost?
–Crave time away to devote to your writing?

Come Write With Us!

Our plan for the day:
–Get acquainted: meet your fellow writers and learn about their work.
–Take a prompt or a writing exercise! We’ll provide you with a whole bunch so you can choose one tailored to your project or your needs.
–Write write write, then check back in with us and write some more.
–Communal lunch and free-range discussion – problems, questions, triumphs?
–Have a goal for the afternoon, keep writing.
–Reconvene for a dash of instruction, precise subject TBA.
–Really? More writing!
–One-on-one consult with Debbie or Charlotte at some time during the day.

THE DETAILS:

March 23, 2019 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97215
$87 including lunch; 8-student limit

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Debbie: dguyol@aol.com Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

Portland workshops

New Half-Day Workshops

Let’s Go Write presents TWO HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS

May 5, 2018 – MOTIVATION

Everything starts with character!

–What motivates your characters?
–How do you suss out your characters’ motivations?(May be harder than it sounds!)
–How do you show motivation on the page?
–How do motivations affect your plot and drive your story? i Bonus: what motivates you as a writer?

May 19, 2018 – ALL ABOUT THE ARC

The narrative has an arc, the character has an arc, and every scene has an arc too. Let’s explore!

–Write a beginning that foreshadows the arc of the story i Character arcs – how do your characters change?
–Create arcs in scenes and chapters
–Is anything exempt from the rule of the arc

–Make all the arcs fit together

THE DETAILS:

1:30 to 4:30 pm at TaborSpace Library, 5441 SE Belmont St., Portland, Oregon 97215 $47 per session; $80 for both
twelve-student limit
Contact: Debbie: dguyol@aol.com Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

Portland workshops

Portland Events: Half-Day Workshops

New Half-Day Workshops

Let’s Go Write presents TWO HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS

May 5, 2018 – MOTIVATION

Everything starts with character!

–What motivates your characters?
–How do you suss out your characters’ motivations?(May be harder than it sounds!)
–How do you show motivation on the page?
–How do motivations affect your plot and drive your story? i Bonus: what motivates you as a writer?

May 19, 2018 – ALL ABOUT THE ARC

The narrative has an arc, the character has an arc, and every scene has an arc too. Let’s explore!

–Write a beginning that foreshadows the arc of the story i Character arcs – how do your characters change?
–Create arcs in scenes and chapters
–Is anything exempt from the rule of the arc

–Make all the arcs fit together

THE DETAILS:

1:30 to 4:30 pm at TaborSpace Library, 5441 SE Belmont St., Portland, Oregon 97215 $47 per session; $80 for both
twelve-student limit
Contact: Debbie: dguyol@aol.com Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

 

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Jump-start your writing in the new year with some half-day workshops on various aspects of the writing craft in January and February.  Here are the details:

January 6, 2018 – CREATE YOUR CHARACTERS

It all starts with character! We can help you:

–Create a character,
–Develop a character you’ve created,
–Tame a rebellious character you’ve created.

January 20, 2018 – USE YOUR SETTING

Explore the role of setting in fiction and memoir:

–Enrich character through setting,
–Consider how place influences story,
–Examine the relationship between landscape and theme.

February 3, 2018 – LEARN THE SECRETS OF STRUCTURE

More exploration:

–Construct a scene, the basic building block of structure,
–Learn screenplay structure and how to use it in your novel or memoir, i Review other theories of structure.

February 17, 2018 – FIND YOUR VOICE

And finally we’ll look at the all-important (and often elusive) voice:

–Define what it is and how to get it,
–Explore voice through language,
–See how voice affects other fiction and memoir fundamentals.

THE DETAILS:

1:30 to 4:30 pm
$47 per session; $160 for all four twelve-student limit
Venue: TaborSpace Library
5441 SE Belmont St., Portland, Oregon 97215 http://letsgowrite.com/
Debbie: dguyol@aol.com
Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

Portland workshops

Haunted: A Writing Workshop

 Let’s Go Write presents:

HAUNTED:
A ONE-DAY WRITING WORKSHOP OCTOBER 28, 2017

“[O]ur life really is a haunted one. The simplest thing in it is a mystery,
the invisible world always lies round us like a shadow . . . .” Harriet Beecher Stowe

Haunted is the theme for our October workshop. A haunted house . . . a haunted landscape . . . a haunted soul. Anything can be haunted. Everything may be haunted. Join our workshop; investigate the dark side!

Character: A character can be haunted or haunting or haunter. The haunted protagonist, the haunting antagonist, some combination of the two. Is the haunter a ghost? Only the writer can say. We’ll play with how to haunt your characters.

Setting: What makes a place haunted? Memories? A spooky look? The presence of haunting spirits? We’ll explore ways to make your settings scarier – or maybe more hauntingly lovely.

Suspense: We’ll discuss creating and sustaining suspense, focusing on tension, the backbone of suspense and the engine of story.

The Invisible World: Let’s evoke it on the page!

Put It All Together: We’ll think about ways to use the haunted concept in your works in progress – or in something completely new.

 

THE DETAILS:

October 28, 2017, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm; $95 including lunch; ten-student limit
Venue: Another Read Through, 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97227 http://letsgowrite.com/ Debbie: dguyol@aol.com Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

How to Write a Book Portland workshops

How to Write a Book 2.1

Let’s Go Write presents

HOW TO WRITE A BOOK 2.1

A One-day Workshop

  • You have an idea for a book, or
  • You’ve started writing one, or
  • You’ve written a bunch – 50 pages or even 100 –

 

BUT:

You feel lost or confused, or

You don’t know how you’ll finish the book, or

You fear it will be a mess if you manage to finish it.

WE CAN HELP!

Our workshop will guide you:

1.  Do you have a plan?

Describe your plan, time to write.

What holds you back?

2. The main idea:

Revisit or identify the idea that will see you through the long haul.

Develop the theme; aka why you are writing this book.

3. Characters and conflicts:

Who are your characters?

What are their problems?

4. Structure:

Beginnings and endings and getting from one to the other.

The inciting incident.

The Hero’s Journey.

5. Scenes:

How to write them.

How they function

6. Process:

How to make it happen.

Writers groups and workshops.

 

THE DETAILS: April 23, 2016, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm; $89 including lunch

Another Read Through, 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97227

Debbie: dguyol@aol.com  Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

Portland workshops Publishing

The Ins and Outs of the Publishing World 2.0

We had fantastic reviews of our first publishing workshop, but the weekend we held it (early December) was difficult for many. Due to popular request, we’re holding it again.  We already have several people committed, so sign up while there is still room.  Here are the details:

Let’s Go Write presents

INS and OUTS of the PUBLISHING WORLD

A One-day Workshop

Saturday, February 20, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

at Another Read Through, 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97227

 

  • You’ve completed your novel or memoir, or
  • It’s almost there, and
  • You’d like to send it out into the great world

You’re looking for guidance – we can help! Our workshop will address:

  1. Overview of the submission process. When should you start submitting? Should you seek an agent or go directly to a publisher? What’s the procedure for finding an agent or publisher? We’ll take you through the steps.
  1. Writing a query letter. The query letter is your gateway to publication whether you use an agent or submit directly to a publisher . We’ll discuss how to describe your book and yourself in an irresistible way. We’ll also touch on the book proposal, for nonfiction projects.
  1. Who are the publishers? The big five encompass numerous divisions and imprints, and these are most of the names you’ve heard of. But there’s more – a whole universe of small presses. We’ll provide a map with annotations to help you navigate this confusing realm.
  1. Self-publishing – is this a better option? Angela Sanders, special guest and expert in the field, will reveal all. How much work does it take? What are the costs and benefits? Should you roll the dice and do it yourself?
  1. You have a contract! Can you negotiate with an agent or a publisher who sends you a standard contract? We’ll show you some things to look for.
  1. Publicity. So much is up to you, alas. Do you have a platform? A brand? Should you hire a publicist? We can help you figure it all out.

The cost: $97, including lunch.                                                LetsGoWrite image

To sign up, email Debbie: dguyol@aol.com or

Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net

http://letsgowrite.com/

 

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Portland workshops Publishing

The Ins and Outs of the Publishing World

Let’s Go Write presents
 
INS and OUTS of the PUBLISHING WORLD
A One-day-plus Workshop 
 
Friday, December 4, 6:30 to 8:30 pm and Saturday, December 5, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm 
at Another Read Through, 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97227
 
★ You’ve completed your novel or memoir, or
★ It’s almost there, and
★ You’re contemplating sending it out into the great world
 
You’re looking for guidance – we can help! Our workshop will address:
 
1.  Writing a query letter. 
The query letter is your gateway to publication. We’ll discuss how to describe your book and yourself in an irresistible way.  We’ll also touch on the book proposal, for nonfiction projects.
 
2.  Finding an agent.
Do you really need one? There are so many of them – is there one for you? We’ll help with research tips and recommendations.
 
3.  Finding a publisher. 
The big five encompass numerous divisions and imprints, and these are most of the names you’ve heard of. But there’s more – a whole universe of small presses. We’ll provide a map with annotations to help you navigate this confusing realm.
4.  Self-publishing – is this a better option?
Angela Sanders, special guest and expert in the field, will reveal all. How much work does it take? What are the costs and benefits? Should you roll the dice and do it yourself?
5. You have a contract!
Can you negotiate with an agent
or a publisher who sends you a standard
contract? We’ll show you some of the
things to look for.
 
The cost: $107, including lunch.
 
 
To sign up, email Debbie: dguyol@aol.com, or Charlotte: chardixon@comcast.net.
See you there!