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Ignite Your Fiction

Sally J. Walker

November 1-30, 2009

$30

Class Description: Learn how to examine and WRITE succinct, vivid examples of Exposition, Description, Narration/Summary, and Action-Dialogue.  Each of these “Elements of Prose” will be dissected for what is essential for today's sophisticated readers and the highly competitive fiction market.  The concept of pacing in character and plot will be stressed as well as development of the writer’s own “voice.”

One     Fundamentals & Analysis of Elements of Prose
Two     Exposition Fundamentals & Techniques 
Three   Description Fundamentals & Techniques 
Four     Narration Fundamentals & Techniques 
Five      Action for Characterization & in General 
Six       Essence of Dialogue & Thought
Seven   Analyzing & Revising EDNA in YOUR Work 
Eight    Q & A
 

Instructor Bio: When Sally Walker started her full-time writing  career over twenty years ago, she quickly won acclaim for her stage plays &  screenplays, internationally published poetry, non-fiction, and fiction.   Amazon.com lists her novels, as well as two adult literacy anthologies, TELL ME OF LOVE and THE REAL WEST, containing her work. She alternates her present writing schedule between a YA nursing series called "The Caregiver Chronicles," a series of picture books with a Scottish theme and a series of adult romances tied to various holidays.

Currently she is Editorial  Director for The Fiction Works, a small publishing company now in partnership with the renowned special effects studio WonderWorks to develop TFW material for the film industry. After six  years of writing craft articles for SCREENTALK magazine, she has been hired as a staff writer for the international  magazine MOVIESCOPE out of London.. Recommended for her analytical skills by members of the UCLA Film Department, she serves as a screenplay judge for one film festival and a national competition.

With 24 screenplays to her credit, Sally signed with a well-known WGA-signatory agent in 2008 who also represents her fiction. Her writing affiliations include a  23-year-old study-critique group called the Nebraska Writers Workshop, Romance Writers of America, Western Writers of America, and the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. She is the '07-09 President of the prestigious Nebraska Writers Guild.  Sally presents writing seminars on a regular  basis for her local community college and has taught at RT's annual convention and on-line for KOD and CAMEO, her local Chapter of RWA.

The Artist's Way  Workshop

Mary O'Gara

June 1 - August 31, 2010

$50

Class Description:  Three month workshop based on Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way (required text).

We'll begin June 1st with preliminary reading assignments from the text and share one lesson each week beginning June 7, 2009.   This is an open-ended workshop, and there is no closing date for registration or for joining the workshop in progress.  It's a full-summer program paced to allow people to take time off for vacations or conferences and return to the workshop easily.

Summer is a difficult time for many writers and artists, because of both family respnsibilities and travel plans.  .  The focus of this workshop is doing our creative work in the midst of life.  The workshop will take us gently through the  season, one day at a time, one step at a time.   As with all creative work, if we miss a step, we simply start again and go on.

The ideal way to participate in this workshop is to set aside time once a week to read the current material from Cameron's book.  During the week, students will write three pages (preferably by hand, but possibly by computer or dictation) each day (preferably in the morning) and will set aside one hour a week for a date with one's own creative self (which may include play or hands-on research).  As a group, we'll work through one or two of Cameron's exercises each week.

The program is designed and intended to help each of us find ways to support and sustain our creative selves on a daily basis that can last a lifetime and provide support for our talents and our chosen creative work.

Instructor Bio: Mary O’Gara, Ph.D. is a Certified Journal Instructor  and a creativity coach who has been a serious (but not always daily) journal writer since 1976.  She has studied the Progoff journal method, teaches Kathleen Adams’s Journal to the Self workshops, and has studied journal techniques for writers with New Mexico writers and poets Natalie Goldberg, Miriam Sagan and Judyth Hill.

Ten years ago Mary initiated the Kiss of Death RWA chapter’s Invisible Words email loop (for all the words that don’t see print).  Mary was already certified in related fields (neurolinguistic programming, hypnosis) and now works as a creativity coach.