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
Well, hello there. Yes, it’s been awhile. Yes, we’ve been to France yet again since last we talked. And yes, we have another Portland workshop planned. (And more coming next year.)