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Multi Week Classes:
Blog Writing Tasting Menu (2 Week)Have you ever watched some hipster typing furiously on his laptop in a café and thought, ‘One day, I’d like to start my own blog’? Or do you already have a blog but you want to give it more pizzaz? This three-week intensive will help you find (or refine) your blogging niche and give you the basic technical know-how to get it working. We’ll stock your writing pantry with the staples for a flavorful blog: including hooks, specificity, and passion and examine how blog writing differs from the printed word. Through fun in-class writing exercises, homework assignments, and optional balanced workshopping, you’ll enjoy sampling till you discover the online genre that’s most scrumptious to you. Not to mention, our tasty snacks will make sure your hard-drive doesn’t crash. New and experienced bloggers welcome! Weekly topics will include:
Note: There is no prerequisite for this class. About Tim Grierson: 10 Minutes in Heaven: Cook Up A 10 Minute PlayDo you have a recurring dream where a penguin and Ionesco try to buy you an umbrella? Ever had a guy at Target show you his toenails? In this class, we’ll help you use the materials of your dreams and life experiences to whip up a 10-minute play that will be all the rage on the festival circuit. Our fun, in-class writing exercises will help get the fire burning under ideas already percolating in your head and help you discover other characters hiding in your mental pantry! We’ll focus on the essential ingredients of the three act structure, dialogue, conflict, and stage direction. We’ll also show you how to incorporate the absurd into your writing, ground it in believability, and heighten it to your advantage. Beginning and experienced playwrights are welcome. Class includes post-theater going fare so delicious it’ll unleash the New York playwright inside of you. By the end of this class, you will have written a 10 minute play!
About Aaron Henne:
Write the Road Less Traveled: Writing Pad Nature WalkDo you enjoy the outdoors or are you passionate about the environment or nature? Come to the Writing Pad Nature Walk and channel your inner Walt Whitman. We’ll help you get your creative juices moving and use beautiful natural surroundings to encourage the ideas floating around the clouds of your brain to set onto the page! We'll get your blood flowing with a short, 30 minute walk above the ocean on the cliffs of Malibu. We’ll also sample a few, fresh, nature-inspired readings and do two to three fun, nature-inspired writing exercises. Experienced and beginning writers welcome. Class includes a decadent, eco-friendly picnic lunch of local and organic goodies that will tantalize your inner Robert Frost. Climb a mountain with us and tell your inner critic to take a hike! You’ll head for home at the end of the day with a sheaf of work, a belly full of yummy goodies, and a recipe for bringing out your unique wild child at home.
About Amy Robinson: Writing Pad Book Club: Read to Feed Your Craft—1 DayDo you enjoy spending weekends lounging on the couch devouring a book? Then come to the Writing Pad Book Club, where you can share your brilliant insights, meet some cool folk, and feast on decadent brunch tasting plates! In this class, we’ll take lively book club chit chat to a new level and help you read in targeted way, like a chef tastes food. We’ll analyze how authors skillfully blend essential ingredients (e.g., plot, character, conflict point of view, scene, universal themes, etc.) and sprinkle in secret spices of their own. Then we’ll use the flavorful stories we’ve sampled to enhance the flavor of our own writing. Class includes Dominican inspired brunch tasting plates so delicious they’ll satisfy the most discriminating palette. Experienced and beginning book lovers and writers welcome. This month, we'll dig into the delectable book, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
About Amy Robinson:
So You Want To Be A Writer? (I/II/III/IV/V)You’ve always dreamed of finding the time to write on a regular basis or to finish a screenplay, a novel, a collection of poems, or a story. You can do it, and this class will help you! Brand new, fun writing exercises and our balanced workshopping sessions will motivate you to keep going. We’ll also show you how to design (or redesign) your writing practice, plan your projects, and tackle revision without pain. This is boot camp Writing Pad style (no steel toe boots necessary). Experienced and beginning writers welcome. Each session includes tea and a tasting plate and dessert such as polenta with truffled onion relish and baked apples with caramel sauce.
About Marilyn Friedman: Finishing SchoolEnroll your unruly writing project in Finishing School! We’ll take the poetry, short story, novel or screenplay project that you’ve dreamed about writing and help you build a realistic but fun plan to get it done. Targeted in-class and homework assignments will help you access your imagination in new ways, inspire you to generate new pages every week, refine and elevate the craft of your work, and nudge that project to the finish line. Before you know it, your stacks of ideas will flow into a manageable, page-turner that will sing like the Von Trapps at Christmastime. Each session includes tea and a tasting plate or dessert such as mini polenta cakes with mushroom ragout and lemon panna cotta with blackberries.
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