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Fiction Writing Workshop (Engaging Setting)
Spend the evening learning how to improve your fiction prose and doing writing exercises to help you elevate your prose and avoid writing purple prose.
Fiction Writing Workshop (Writing Subtext)
Spend an evening learning how and where to incorporate subtext into your fiction and practice the art of subtext through in-class writing exercises.
Poetry Workshop - Free Verse Poetry
Spend an evening studying free verse poetry and learning what makes a good free verse poem, then practice writing your own through writing prompts.
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Memoir Writing Workshop
Spend an evening learning how to write good memoir and how it differs from writing fiction and practice through creative writing exercises.
So You Want to be a Freelancer Seminar
You have so many stories inside of you, and you are burning to tell them. But how do you get from inspiration to publication? In this class, veteran journalist Marc Cooper (Atlantic Monthly, NY Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone) will take you through the paces of the freelance life. You’ll learn how to pitch to editors, keep your pile of ideas fresh, and work with your sources. Marc will cover the mechanics of being a professional freelancer: how much...
Creative Writing with Vintage Books
In this creative writing workshop by L. Sharp, students will use vintage books to create their own original poems and stories. By erasing existing words on the page, new meaning will emerge. The process, both inspirational and meditative, awakens creativity in active and occasional writers. Students will also use vintage photographs and collage to rewrite their one-of-a-kind books. Q&A Q: Are materials provided? A: Yes, materials...
Write a $1,000-$10,000 Grant in One Day
West Los Angeles College @ Fine Arts Bldg, Los Angeles, CA
Educators, community- and faith-based organizations, non-profits, healthcare professionals, and starving artists can use grants. Many corporations and foundations offer mini-grants of $1,000 to $10,000 to meet immediate needs—and the applications can be completed in just a few hours. Because it’s so easy, you can apply for multiple grants to total the amount you need. Get links to appropriate available opportunities along with sample grant proposals,...
$54
Grammar Power in Three Hours (Ages 15 & Up)
West Los Angeles College @ Fine Arts Bldg, Los Angeles, CA
Is it ‘who or whom’, ‘She and I’ or ‘her and me’? Bad grammar makes a bad impression. If you want to succeed, you must communicate properly. Find out about the most common mistakes people make and learn to avoid them in this intensive grammar workshop. Rediscover the basics of good sentence structure and discuss principles like making subjects agree with verbs. Tricky verbs such as “lay,” “lie,” “affect” and “effect” will...
$59
Write ‘Straight up’ with a Grammar ‘Twist’
West Los Angeles College @ Fine Arts Bldg, Los Angeles, CA
Gain the confidence to write emails, website bios, and reports right! Just one or two of the tips from this class will help you become a noticeably better writer. Learn to organize your ideas more effectively, integrate better sentence and vocabulary variety, and incorporate self-editing strategies to produce error-free writing. No more questioning word choice or punctuation; you’ll know what to do! Age 15 and up welcome to take this class. ...
$59
Riffing and Writing (Plus Persona!)
Students will learn to comfort handling hecklers and dead crowds and will learn to MC. They will also learn how to come up with new lines while performing. A "bullet proof" ten minutes refers to taking your best six minutes of material and punch it up so that it always knocks out an audience, get big laugh one after the other and will be also strong enough so that you can pass auditions at the top comedy clubs in town. We get your set by going...
Intermediate
18 and older
Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series
Los Angeles Writers Group @ 1728 Laurel Canyon Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Spend one or several evening learning and practicing different elements of the creative writing craft. Pick and choose which evenings you'd like to attend this summer to work on fiction, poetry, or memoir. Each night we meet, we'll focus on a different creative writing topic as listed below. During the evening, we will discuss that particular element and we will give you creative writing exercises to complete in class to practice the element we...
$45
Fiction Writing Workshop (Writing Conflict)
Spend the evening learning how to generate more conflict in your fiction by understanding the underpinnings of conflict and work on in-class writing exercises to help hone this important writing skill. This is one night of a series of workshops. You can purchase this one workshop or you can buy a series of 4 workshops.
Short Story Workshop
Los Angeles Writers Group @ Location will be, Los Angeles, CA
Study the Genre, Generate New Ideas Learn techniques like mining your own life experience, using your powers of observation and your rich memory storehouse to examine your own culture to generate short story ideas. Whether you want to write a single short story, or a series of interconnected stories, a short-story collection, or even a novella, this workshop will help you generate new ideas while you examine the classic short story. Every meeting,...
$45
Personal Essay and Memoir Workshop
Los Angeles Writers Group @ Location will be, Los Angeles, CA
Part generative and part critique, this bi-weekly memoir workshop welcomes writers who have already begun a memoir or essay project as well as writers who have a project in mind but have yet to begin writing. In addition to creating new personal writing, you will also have the option to share and get professional feedback on pages from your memoir or personal essays. We will also reflect on the work of successful memoir and personal writing through...
$45
Writing Workshop - Advanced
Mt. Washington Writers' Workshop
The Mt. Washington Writers’ Workshop offers serious, craft-focused workshops for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction, in an atmosphere of generosity and respect. Our Advanced Class focuses on workshopping and feedback that encourages the writer's unique voice and material, paired with an in-depth study of technique. Activities include workshopping, exercises, analysis of published works, discussion, and completing works for submission....
Advanced
18 and older
Explore 50 Different Self Publishing Options
Mt. San Antonio College @ 1100 N Grand Ave, Walnut, CA
Self Publishing is all the rage, but is it the best option for YOU? (participants must attend “Beginner’s Guide to Getting Published”) And, can you do both? You will discover the pros and cons of all the self publishing options, including print-on-demand and e-book publishing, as well as the Amazon option of Create Space. You will leave with a rated description of 50 self publishing companies.Students will receive a .pdf handout emailed to...
$25
Intro to Writing for Late Night TV
DBA Flappers University @ 102 E Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA
In this seminar/workshop, students will learn every facet of late night comedy writing, including monologue, desk pieces and remotes, with the goal of becoming technically proficient, confident and comfortable submitting material to various late night television programs. Whether it's Letterman, Leno, or Maher, students will come away with the knowledge of how to write in any host's voice (something with which Mr. Abelson is quite familiar, as he...
$49
Unlock the Story Within
L.A. Writers' Lab @ 1408 3rd St Promenade, Los Angeles, CA
Unlock The Story Within is not a formulaic approach to story structure. Through this workshop you will discover how you are uniquely qualified to tell your story. The very fears that kept you stuck are, in fact, your way into the story. Unlock The Story Within will help you to articulate what you didn’t know you were trying to say. The conscious mind is good at doing one thing: it answers the questions we ask it. When a writer gets blocked, he...
$45
Get Out of Your Head
L.A. Writers' Lab @ Virtual Classroom
A portion of all proceeds goes to benefit Young Storytellers (a writing mentorship program for low-income students). It’s important to get out of our heads and allow our characters to surprise us. This 60-minute workshop consists of a series of writing prompts that will take you to the heart of your characters. Al will work one-on-one with writers and help you understand what you didn’t know you that you knew. Please note: We’ll send...
$5
The Art of Crowd Work
DBA Flappers University @ 118 E Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA
Crowd Work is a very tricky bi-product of being a comedian. When can you perform it? How long can you? Are there tricks to get in and out of crowd work? In this BRAND NEW workshop, you will learn the art of crowd work. You'll learn how to engage with the crowd and then be put into simulations to practice.
$25
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