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CREATIVE WRITING & MULTI GENRE CLASSESClick “Buy Now” Under Each Class to Enroll. Email info@writingpad.com or call 323-333-2954 if you have further questions or want to ask about payment plans.
MINI WRITING PAD BOOTCAMPPut the bounce back into your writing practice! Athletes exercise every day to keep their muscles in shape. Writers should too. The more you write and use your imagination, the better your writing becomes. This class will give you tools for inspiration and motivation to work out your writing muscles. The Mini Writing Pad Boot Camp includes fun but intensive in-class writing workouts and a smorgasbord of daily 10 minute writes to keep you busy for a whole week. You’ll even get a writing buddy and instructor support to keep those fingers bench pressing your keyboard. The time will fly by, and you’ll generate so much new material for revision and publication, you’ll feel pumped. Post-class, you will also receive instructor feedback on a draft of something you wrote in class to motivate you to get a short story, essay, or a screenplay scene done. Experienced and beginning writers welcome.
About Brett Paesel: Brett Paesel is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, "Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom" (Warner Books) and the blog, "Last of the Bohemians". "Mommies Who Drink" was selected as an Elle Magazine Must Read, a hot summer pick in Entertainment Weekly, and one of "Summers' Hottest Reads" in People Magazine. The Boston Globe proclaimed the book "honest, affectionate, and smartly written. . . real, and laugh-out-loud funny." Brett has also written television pilots for HBO, ABC, Fox, WB, Lifetime, and Nick at Nite. Her stories, essays, and articles have been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, More magazine, Self, Family Fun, amongst other publications. In addition, she was a contributing editor to Parents and Wondertime (where she was also a beauty and wellness columnist). Her comic essays have been included in several collections including "Lights, Action, Travel" and "Behind the Bedroom Door". Brett has taught screenwriting and sketch at Second City and nonfiction writing for The National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Brett is currently writing two other books, one a novel and the other a collection of autobiographical stories.
Literary Games: THE ART OF THE FOUND STORYWhat 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 take the pain out of the creative process, inspire unexpected stories, and inject your writing with surprises that you could never have dreamed up on our own. By the end of class, you'll be armed with a writer’s block busting toolkit as well as the beginnings of an new tale so imaginative it would have made Charles Bukowski jealous!
About Grace Krilanovich:
PAGES, PAGES, PAGES: A GENERATIVE CRAFT WORKSHOPAre you a super busy person who wants to write regularly? Have you been dreaming about finishing an essay, book, screenplay, or story but life has been getting in the way? You can do it, and bestselling author Brett Paesel will help you! Brett's fun in-class writing exercises will allow you to access your imagination in new ways, dig deep, and boost your writing craft skills. She'll show you how to create vivid descriptions and characters, smoothly integrated flashbacks, and scenes packed with conflict! Weekly balanced work shopping sessions will motivate you to keep generating new pages. You’ll be too busy having fun writing to let your inner critic slow you down! Brett will also address individual writing practice/project issues, and help you tackle revision without pain. Experienced and beginning writers welcome.
About Brett Paesel: Brett Paesel is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, "Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom" (Warner Books) and the blog, "Last of the Bohemians". "Mommies Who Drink" was selected as an Elle Magazine Must Read, a hot summer pick in Entertainment Weekly, and one of "Summers' Hottest Reads" in People Magazine. The Boston Globe proclaimed the book "honest, affectionate, and smartly written. . . real, and laugh-out-loud funny." Brett has also written television pilots for HBO, ABC, Fox, WB, Lifetime, and Nick at Nite. Her stories, essays, and articles have been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, More magazine, Self, Family Fun, amongst other publications. In addition, she was a contributing editor to Parents and Wondertime (where she was also a beauty and wellness columnist). Her comic essays have been included in several collections including "Lights, Action, Travel" and "Behind the Bedroom Door". Brett has taught screenwriting and sketch at Second City and nonfiction writing for The National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Brett is currently writing two other books, one a novel and the other a collection of autobiographical stories.
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