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This page is for students in Tuesday Spring Craft Studio. We begin March 15th at 1a:30 a.m. If you are signed up, check out the schedule Virtual Option.

Class Detail:  You will read aloud several times to get a deep connection to the storyteller's voice within, we will read a selection of literary essays/short stories as well in order to discuss craft and style, and most of all, we will focus on how to write scenes!  

Required Text:  
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Story by Robert McKee 

Tell it Slant by Brenda Miller. 


Class 1: Mar. 15

Pre-reading:  Feedback (emailed)
Intros, hellos, process of class, discussion of text.
Required Text:  Story, I'll Give You the Sun, Tell it Slant

Workshop Readers: Steven, Myrna, Jean, Joe
This is a 1250 words total. Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins.  Bring 13 copies please.  
 
Class 2: Mar. 22
Pre-reading:  I'll Give You the Sun

Workshop Readers:  Janice, Susan, Ellie, Cathryn
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring 13 copies please.

Class 3: Mar. 29
Pre-reading:  TBA

Workshop Readers: John, Erica, Linda, Joseph
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring 13 copies please.

Class 4: Apr. 5
Pre-reading: 

Workshop Readers: Steven, Myrna, Jean, Joe
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins.  Bring 13 copies please. 


Class 5: Apr. 12
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: Janice, Susan, Ellie, Cathryn
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring 13 copies please.

Class 6:  Apr. 19
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers:  John, Erica, Linda, Joseph
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring 13 copies please.

Class 7: Apr. 26
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: Steven, Myrna, Jean, Joe
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins.  Bring 13 copies please. 


Class 8: May 3
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: Janice, Susan, Ellie, Cathryn
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring 13 copies please. 

Class 9: May 10
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: John, Erica, Linda, Joseph
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring 13 copies please.

Class 10: May 17
Pre-reading: TBA

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Reference texts and videos:  
Cultivations of Kindness Meditation (for self acceptance): Click here
Keep it Short by Danny Heitman (Click on link)
Debra Gwartney on Memoir  (click on link) 
Philip Lopate on Writing Personal Essays  (click on link)
Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
Story Engineering by Larry Brooks
Screenwriters Problem Solver by Syd Fields
Story by Robert McKee

Book Suggestions:

Live Through This by Debra Qwartney
Crazy for the Storm by Norm Olestead
Figment of my Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith 
SUGGESTED PROGRAM:  Scrivener (free download for 30 days).