B130 Basics to Create Dynamic Characters
Begin: Jan.25.2012
How can you ensure your reader will care about your characters? Are your characters three dimensional or are they flat and lifeless? Will your main character be the next Huck Finn or Sherlock Holmes, or will they be easily forgotten and discarded? Do you want your main characters to be memorable?
Booked spaces: 17
Free spaces: 13

F144 Preparing for the Novel
Begin: Jan.25.2012
The writing exercises in this four-week course cover the eight-point arc, character and dialogue, point-of-view and style, and editing and shaping. Required Resources (texts, etc.): "Writing A Novel," by Nigel Watts, available at Writers' Village Bookstore or through your local bookstore.
Booked spaces: 22
Free spaces: 8

N140 Writing the Memoir
Begin: Jan.25.2012
So you write nonfiction, but want to develop your personal experiences as memoirs rather than as self-help or journalistic articles? Or you're interested in writing literary nonfiction? This course is intended for you. We will focus on taking true-life experiences and shaping them into literary memoirs. If participants are interested, we might also look at using memoir writing as a springboard to other kinds of literary nonfiction. Required Resources (texts, etc.): Your Life as Story: Discovering the 'New Autobiography' and Writing Memoir as Literature, by Tristine Rainer (available at http://amazon.com)
Booked spaces: 10
Free spaces: 20

MFA212 What is Plot?
Begin: Jan.26.2012
Most working writers of fiction operate less by an articulated narrative theory then by the hunch and feel of experience.
Booked spaces: 9
Free spaces: 21

N106 Writing Short Nonfiction Part 2
Begin: Feb.01.2012
Writing Short Non-fiction is designed to help our members gain marketable skills writing essays, anecdotes, mini-profiles, opinion pieces, humor, reviews and brighteners.
Booked spaces: 5
Free spaces: 25

B103 Grammar, facilitated by Janet Smith
Begin: Feb.01.2012
This course is designed to be a refresher course on the basics of Grammar. We are covering the basic grammar rules taught in school that you may have either forgotten or are a bit rusty on. Through the various weeks we'll start with spelling, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, through to sentence structures.
Booked spaces: 13
Free spaces: 17

F300 Crafting Children's Stories
Begin: Feb.01.2012
There is an art to storytelling- especially for children. Once the basic principles are mastered, thee are no boundaries, a good story flows from the understanding of writing and structure, character development and plot. Throughout history, storytelling is ever present. Later those same stories would go on to be written, from the original stories to present ,not much has changed; and to share that writing with children gives them a glimpse into the past, can educate them, and even open new worlds. Storytelling is both an art and craft. Art involves instinct with a n appreciation for formal structure. The craft involves the technique and process that we will further explain. Intertwine these two elements together in just the right manner and you have the potential to move people. Required Text: Writer's Guide to Crafting Stories for Children By: Nancy Lamb
Booked spaces: 7
Free spaces: 23

P186 Poetry Triggers - A Chinese Meditation Poem Exercise
Begin: Feb.01.2012
The Poetry Triggers Workshops were developed by members of P123, the Senior Poets Workshop, to challenge and prompt poets to write, whether they are suffering from writer's block, desiring to explore and find new topics, seeking to expand their craftsmanship or simply looking for some writing exercises to get the creative juices flowing between longer courses.
Booked spaces: 1
Free spaces: 29

MFA 213 The Art of Sequencing
Begin: Feb.02.2012
We can learn a lesson from the story of Snow White. The fairy tale does not backtrack. Never once does its ancient narrator account any portion of the story that took place before it's beginning. There are no backward jumps or flashbacks. There are no prolonged descriptions of the characters memories. This story unfolds simply and magically forward in time.
Booked spaces: 4
Free spaces: 26

F140 Short Story Workshop - Linear
Begin: Feb.08.2012
To write a short story, we only need to a place to start and a direction in which to move. Students will write a short story from start to finish with writing exercises that cover the planning stage, character shaping and the construction of the short story in five basic steps.
Booked spaces: 11
Free spaces: 19

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