Spend a day in Carlsbad, CA, a beautiful beach town only 1.5 hrs south of Los Angeles.

Generate new material via creative and educational writing prompts.
Make new writing friends.
Get personal attention - limited to 8 attendees.
Leave with new vignettes, stories, or poems!
Get answers to writing-related questions from a professional writing coach who specializes in helping writers finish their first drafts. This workshop is perfect for aspiring fiction writers, memoir or essay writers, and poets.

Our monthly creative writing workshops are for writers of all levels, experiences and genres. They are perfect for the just-beginning writer as well as practiced writers who need a new spark, want to take new risks, or seek community. Young adults 16 years old and older are especially encouraged to come.

Our monthly creative writing workshops are for writers of all levels, experiences and genres. They are perfect for the just-beginning writer as well as practiced writers who need a new spark, want to take new risks, or seek community. Young adults 16 years old and older are especially encouraged to come.

Dreaming on the Page: Interactive online writing workshop

5 Weekly, Interactive, Online Meetings

• Thursdays, March 5 through April 2, 2020
• 11 a.m.-2 p.m. US Eastern Time (the same time zone as New York)
• $195 when you register now

https://dreamingonthepage.teachable.com/p/dreaming-on-the-page

It’s a conundrum that has frustrated writers since humans first put chisel to stone: There’s a story inside of you. You know it. You feel it! You know that it’s good and that it can be amazing. But how do you take what you know is a good story and bring it alive on the page?  

Your first fifteen pages need to thrust the reader right into the action of the story. Oh, and also inspire an emotional connection to the character. While simultaneously providing just enough description to set the scene—without forgetting to plant some tantalizing questions to keep us turning the pages! Oh, and making the right promises about the story to come, too. And is there any way you could sneak some zesty dialogue in there while you’re at it?

Characters are the center of our stories. Their problems become our problems—and our readers’ problems. Their failures and redemptions give us our plot and themes. So how do we make them into full-bodied, complex leaders of our stories? How do we show our readers who our characters are, inside and out? How do we ensure that we don’t betray our characters by leading them in ways that are not true to the person we have created?

Poetry uses language in a way that is not available to us in everyday life. As with a song, a poem can elevate and capture a specific experience—an image, memory, or sensation—and connect people in a powerful way. Whether you are a practiced poet or a total “newbie” who wonders what poetry is “about,” this workshop will provide a jump-start to get you into a writing practice. Come join us in a supportive, inspiring workshop environment in which we will explore found poetry, song lyrics, spoken word, and literary poetry from a wide range of contemporary authors.

You have a memoir—a life story—that you know needs to be written. But how? There is so much to tackle in crafting a memoir, no matter the length. Where do you begin? How do you shape a memory into a story that engages readers? How do you sustain their interest?

If you want to be a writer, you need to read like a writer. This fact—which might seem obvious—eludes people more often than you would think. In this workshop, we will hone our writing skills by learning how authors influence a reader through structure and style choices, to truly understand how fine pieces of literary fiction are crafted.