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You have a great idea for a spellbinding article, celebrity profile, or reported essay that you're dying to get published. How do you make your pitch stand out so it doesn’t disappear into the slush pile? How do you target the right editor at the right publication? In this one day class, successful journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner will pull back the curtain of secrecy to show you what editors look for in queries, the process for landing a writing...
You've got a great idea or a first draft of a hot, new short story. Everything seems to be there: beautiful language, strong characters, compelling conflict, and clear themes. But something is missing, and you don’t know what it is. In this class, award-winning short story writer Maureen McHugh will help find the weakness in your piece's structure, retrofit the spine, and patch up any narrative holes. Through focused workshopping, you'll breathe...
Screenwriting is scene writing. Your story comes to life through well crafted moments, authentic dialog, rising and falling conflict, and strong emotional beats. In this one day scene writing workshop, veteran screenwriter Wayne Powers (The Italian Job) will show you how to build your story from the inside out, making each scene a microcosm of your larger story. Through an engaging lecture, he’ll share his secrets to writing the perfect scene....
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Explore Professional Private Group EventsAnyone who has ever tried it knows the truth: writing action is hard. From thrillers to mysteries to action films, almost all genres require some kind of action scene. In this one-day action scene workshop, veteran screenwriter Wayne Powers (The Italian Job) will show you how to make your action scenes exciting and relevant to your story. He will show you how he blocks out an action scene. Through fun in-class exercises and an informative lecture,...
Writing Pad @ 688 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Have you ever wanted to have your story aired on “This American Life”? In this class, frequent “This American Life” contributor Davy Rothbart will show you how. You have to know how to find a great story, make sure you’re the right person to tell it, how to pursue it, and who to talk to. He’ll show you how to shape your story, and you’ll learn valuable tips for interviewing your subjects and writing narration. The class also features...
Are you a budding travel writing enthusiast? Then this class is for you. This workshop will cover the elements of travel writing, including pre-trip research, using on-location experience to find an angle, telling the story, and engaging an audience. It will also include tips on how to leverage the learnings of this class in the current global crisis - with everything that’s going on in the world right now, more than ever, we need to find ways...
Writing Pad @ 10200 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA
You’ve got your killer beats. Maybe you’ve even got your fine-tuned outline. But how do you turn those raw materials into the beating heart of an amazing script–the scene? In this one day Scene Writing Workshop, veteran TV and screenwriter Steve Peros (22 scripts sold) will show you how to build your story from the inside out, making each scene a microcosm of your larger story. Through an engaging lecture, he’ll share his secrets to writing...
You could be the best writer in the world but if you don’t have something unique to say, it may not matter. Everyone has an original story in them. Discover how to turn your own unique passions and experiences into themes, stories, and characters.
Los Angeles Writers Group @ Location will be, Los Angeles, CA
In this series of workshops, we will examine in depth a different element of scene writing every Wednesday evening, so that by the end of the series, you will feel like you have all the tools you need to write better scenes. Each workshop starts with introductions, then a presentation on the evening’s topic with examples, a Q&A period, and one or two writing exercises to help cement what you’ve just learned. You can join any session you’d...
Writing Pad @ 688 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA
What if you could harness the detritus of your daily life to write a Pulitzer prize winner? In this one day class, successful writer Grace Krilanovich will set your mind ablaze with a wide range of fun literary games to do just that. Grace used these techniques to craft her successful novel "The Orange Eats Creeps." She'll show you how to generate new material by playing with text, magazine clippings and comic strips. These Surrealist games will...
Hailed a cultural phenomenon by “Newsweek” and celebrated by “This American Life,” “The Today Show,” and beyond, “Mortified” is a one-of-a-kind, popular storytelling show that involves excavating high school memorabilia to create a totally unique form of performed stories. Let the show’s creators Neil Katcher and David Nadelberg wade into your personal archives to find the elements of literary gold. In this one-day class, you’ll...
The “Modern Love” personal essay column in the New York Times Style Section is the crown jewel of personal essays in terms of bragging rights and future book deals. In this one-day relationship personal essay workshop, Modern Love Alum Cole Kazdin will share her insight into securing this prestigious but elusive prize. Through fun, in class exercises, an informative craft talk, and in-class feedback, you will learn Cole’s secret techniques...
Want to use your blog as a personal branding weapon to achieve your dreams? Goodbye day job, hello Rebecca Parks Fernandez, marketing, social media, and branding guru. In this one-day blogging and social media workshop, Rebecca will teach you how to take your blog from hobby to creative career. Through an informative craft talk, you’ll learn how to drive people to your blog with stellar social media posts, capture their attention with compelling...
Writing Pad @ 688 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA
Have you always dreamed of writing whimsical tales that take place in a futuristic world of your own creation? In this class, award-winning science fiction writer, Maureen McHugh will share her recipe for crafting an irresistible science fiction or fantasy tale! Zombies, Space Ships, and Killer Robots Through fun, in-class writing exercises and an engaging craft talk, she'll help you create compelling characters and build a fascinating world...
Have you fantasized about seeing a story of yours published in the New Yorker? Award-winning writer, Summer Kumar will give you the resources, structure, and inspiration to hustle your work effectively into a literary magazine, and she’ll take the pain out of the submission process. In this 1-day publishing workshop in Los Angeles, she will even share her secret recipe for getting your work published in the top literary magazines. Through her engaging...
Writing Pad @ Online Classroom via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA
Your Million Dollar Idea: Generating Story For Nonfiction, TV and Film You want to find the tale that becomes a Moth-winning story or NY Times Modern Love essay but you’re creatively stumped. Or maybe your manager needs you to bring three killer new ideas to your pitch at FX tomorrow and the well has run dry. What to do? In this one-day Idea Generation Seminar, Moth Host and BATS Main Company Performer Corey Rosen will help you bust through...
Note: This is primarily a lecture class with some in-class exercises but not everyone will get to share their writing for feedback due to the seminar format. Dreaming of publishing your essay in a top newspaper or magazine, but feel your experiences aren’t unique enough? You’re not alone. Most of us have never moonlighted as a pirate or worked for the CIA, but in this 1 Day Online Personal Essay class, 2x NY Times Modern Love Alum Sara Eckel...
Note: This is primarily a lecture class, so not everyone will get to share their writing for feedback due to the seminar format. Is it your dream to write the next “Where The Wild Things Are?” But how do you structure a children’s story? How do words and pictures come together? How do you get published? In this 1-day publishing Online picture book workshop, successful picture book author Laurenne Sala (4 published picture books, Harper Collins,...
Writing Pad @ Online Classroom via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA
Note: This is primarily a lecture class, so not everyone will get to share their writing for feedback due to the seminar format. Do you want to write for television, but don’t know where to start? Not to worry. Veteran TV writer Steven Peros will provide the foundation you need to begin your journey into the world of writing for the small screen. Steven has sold four pilots (to MTV and NBC-Universal, among others), and wrote for one of AMC’s...
This is primarily a lecture class with some in-class exercises but not everyone will get to share their writing for feedback due to the seminar format. Have you always wanted to write a humorous personal essay but you don’t know where to start? Or have you dreamed of seeing one of your essays published in the New York Times or Salon? Then this Online Humorous Personal Essay Class is for you. Using fun in-class exercises, we’ll help you transform...
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