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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

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

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

How to Write a Book Portland workshops

Portland Workshop: How To Write a Book 2.0

Another workshop successfully completed! Next up comes Secrets of Publishing this fall.  Stay tuned!

Our day-long workshops on March 21 and June 27 were great, with participants getting insights into the writing process and their individual projects.  We’re planning an encore in winter or spring of 2016, so read on to see what we covered in past events.

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HOW TO WRITE A BOOK 2.0

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 through

1. Summing up the main idea:

  • Identify an idea that will see you through the long haul
  • Find a theme
  • Let your main idea sprout related ideas (you need a lot of ideas for a book)

2. Identifying characters and conflicts:

  • Fun ways to get to know your characters
  • And understand their problems

3. Figuring out beginnings and endings:

  • The inciting incident
  • Lay out fireworks and set them off

4. Finding a path from here to there:

  • Different ways to structure the book
  • The dreaded middle

5. Doing it your way:

  • Find time to write
  • Make a plan

THE DETAILS: June 27, 2015, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm. $89 including lunch. We’ll meet at Tabor Space, 5441 SE Belmont St., Portland, Oregon 97215

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

Testimonials!

“Your class was very helpful! I took a lot of notes and got a lot of ideas from what others were saying, even if it wasn’t about my story. . . . Thanks again for offering this to me. I would do it again.” Kathy

“Thank you for such a lovely day, both of you are delightful and offered us all so much inspiration. I’m excited to see where my story goes.” Susan

“Thank you so much for a wonderful workshop! It was very well organized and informative but with a nice, relaxed air. I learned so much from both of you and also from the other attendees.” Cheryl

“It was wonderful. You two are great workshop leaders/teachers and the group was such an inspiration to me. ” Leigh

“I enjoyed the workshop – the interaction with other participants and the information presented along with the handouts. A plan of action for my short stories is in the making!”  Robert