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Explore gay men's experiences in a safe, encouraging workshop environment of peers as you craft compelling fiction and nonfiction.
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…
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.
Learn to find inspiration from a variety of sources in this course for writers who need to jumpstart their creativity.
Learn how to create writing that triggers emotional responses in your reader. Great for beginning and intermediate writers.
Find out how to become a professional nonfiction writer in this career-focused course for beginning writers.
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.
No matter our level of professional experience, the most challenging stories we tell are often those about ourselves. Getting personal may help you get that job offer, but it can take a unique…
Learn to write a powerful biographical film (a "biopic") in this case ideal for writers with some understanding of feature film structure.
Enhance your existing script in this course focused on imbuing your story with elements that inspire a director's passion.
Learn how a defined thematic argument is at the heart of every powerful story, and how you can enhance it in your own script.
Explore 7 techniques you can use to eliminate writer's block and get back to putting words on the page.
Get an overview of the process to adapt existing intellectual property (IP) for film and television.
Discover the role of writers and publishing professionals in creating a more inclusive and equitable future for the publishing industry.
Learn to build poems that capture emotions in the physical world using the principles of Feng Shui.
Examine the current forces that drive many industries to adopt Artificial Intelligence in their marketing strategies and learn about real-world case studies from small startups to large, successful organizations using AI.
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