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Use real life as a jumping off point for new writing, using activities and techniques that deepen and enrich how the stories are told.
Before an agent ever gets hold of your novel, you must go through numerous revisions to present your best possible effort. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, writing is rewriting, and the story of…
This ambitious workshop guides you to achieve the unthinkable: a novel draft in just 10 weeks.
Get ruthless with your own drafts and discover ways to elevate your writing to its greatest potential in this workshop devoted only to revision techniques.
Approach writing from a variety of perspectives to discover new ideas, techniques, and skills in this workshop for writers of all genres.
Learn how to create writing that triggers emotional responses in your reader. Great for beginning and intermediate writers.
Explore the erotic as a genre as you learn to incorporate writing about sex and sexuality artfully into your writing, no matter its subject.
Apply the techniques of evocative writing to place-based works while learning the skills of the professional travel writers
Find stories from your life to turn into written works in this encouraging course that focuses on generating new work instead of revising and critiquing.
Kickstart your imagination with this introductory course on writing beyond the ordinary and in alternate realities.
Dive right into to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) with this workshop designed to help you achieve success with pre- and post-November activities.
Develop a solid premise and sketch out your story's structure with the goal of completing a six-page detailed synopsis that you can use to complete a draft of your novel.
This holistic approach to movement, voice, and speech aims at liberating and enhancing the performer's natural capacity for moving, sounding, and speaking as applied to performance on camera.
Gain experiential understanding of improvisational acting and develop a strong improvisational perspective essential to scripted work through theater games and improvising scenes.
Learn the historic Stanislavski acting method combining the physical and emotional spheres to build an authentic character and true inner life, as well as how this method becomes the basis of many other acting techniques.
Primarily for nonactors (as well as beginning actors), use professional acting techniques in a supportive environment. Experience the unfolding of your full potential for self-expression and personal presentation.
Join a critique-free group to keep you on track to reach your writing goals while learning new tools and best practices for getting words on the page.
Written communication is essential in everything we do. We may be asked to write a report for the work we do in our jobs. We may have to write proposals for potential clients. We may need to write a…
What do all the Oscar, BAFTA, or Golden Globe award-winning/nominated features have in common? All share vital underlying similarities in terms of plot and characterization. By analyzing exactly why…
This course is aimed at screenwriters who are interested in where Black television began and how much farther we have to go. We look at the progression of African Americans on TV and their struggles.…
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