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FictionAdvanced FictionJA9-F01
“Shut up and drive,” she said: A Dialogue WorkshopJA9-F02
Brick by Brick: Writing the Perfect SceneJA9-F03
Setting: Where to place your writingJA9-F04
Frankenstein’s Thunderbolt: Giving Life to Your CharactersJA9-F05
Beginning Story WritingJA9-F06
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The Bertrand Russell SocietyHosted by: Dr. David White The Bertrand Russell Society was formed shortly after Russell’s death in 1970. Russell was born in 1872 and worked in fields such as mathematical logic; philosophy; social, religious, and educational reform; anti-war protests and politics. An accomplished writer, Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. This ongoing lecture series promises to enlighten and entertain. Monthly meetings are open to everyone, not just to members of the society. Monthly Story SlamMarch. 17, 7 pm An open mic of true loose and spontaneous stories based on one’s own life! Themes include: “Brush with the Law,” “Love Life,” “Embarassing Moment,” “True Tales from College”...but stories can be independent of the theme. This is an event where participants tell stories about their lives. The stories are loose and spontaneous, and the emphasis is on authenticity. See examples on Youtube by searching MothUp Story Slam. According to The New York Times: “Like the folk revival in the 70s or standup comedy in the 80s, all of a sudden everyone is doing it....Storytelling has exploded into a thriving genre all its own, a new avenue to prominence for writers and, increasingly, for actors and comedians.” Each performer gets approximately 5 minutes. Signup list at front desk 1/2 hour before. or sign up by emailing Carol Roberts at crobert8@rochester.rr.com with “Monthly Sign Up” in the subject line. Valley Manor Book Discussions1570 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. This is the “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book”. History Reading GroupHosted by Steve Huff Join Writers & Books’s history buffs as they explore the big issues and personalities of history. We do not choose particular books, but only subjects. You can read any book or other material on the subject and join the discussion. Meets on the third Wide Open MicMonday, March 22 W&B is proud to sponsor Rochester’s longest-running open mic, hosted by Norm Davis, poet and editor of HazMat Review. Known for its eclectic mix, Wide Open Mic welcomes poets, performers, and writers of all kinds. 25 & UnderTues. March 23 More than a quarter century ago W&B first opened its doors. To celebrate that milestone anniversary we initiated a monthly reading series featuring writers who are 25 and younger. Join us as we discover a new generation of writers for the next quarter century.
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This workshop is designed to help experienced writing students take their fiction to the next level. Character, plot, narration, dialogue, voice, theme, and everything else that goes into the best fiction will be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to critique and be critiqued in a supportive atmosphere. Participants are expected to have some workshop experience or some practice at writing fiction.
Good dialogue makes characters in a story sound like real people talking, yet no on in real life talks like a character, even in the best novels. This seeming contradiction can be explained by examining the attributes of good dialogue. This workshop will offer a combination of lectures, readings, and exercises (mostly exercises) designed to help you write dialogue that both sounds good and moves your story forward.
Whether you write novels, short stories, scripts, or even flash fiction, the scene is the building block, the story within the story, the argument that supports your theme. . .in short, the brickwork of the story. The purpose of this class is to study and practice how to construct the perfect scene. We will review all the elements that belong to a scene (action, conflict, motivation, dialogue, setting, arc, beginning hook, ending hook, point-of-view, shot, beats, etc.), the way scene is cobbled together with exposition, and how longer works can be plotted prior to the writing process to insure that you have established an effective throughline that sustains interest, stays on message, and engages your audience.
Are you humming along with a writing project, but feel something is missing? Do you get stuck when trying to create strong settings? Oftentimes, setting can become forgotten or lost amongst characters and plots. But it plays a vital role in most published fiction and nonfiction. Here, learn how to create settings that move stories and essays along without turning into “flowery” additions. Bring your fiction or nonfiction, and through exercises and workshop, let’s work on building better settings that will create and evoke mood and tone while revealing new and exciting visuals to your readers.
Often your characters are a saladecomposé of body parts: your uncle Max’s torso with your brother’s head. Or maybe a combination of your third grade teacher and your sister-in-law. But now you have to do the truly miraculous: give those characters life. In this workshop we’ll talk about the character-driven story, techniques for giving character and life to people acting out the primary roles in your story, including those really tough personalities who are a bit unlike anyone you’ve ever really known. We’ll look at some eminently alive characters in stories by Flannery O’Connor and Alice Munro, and do a brief in-class writing exercise.
You’ve always wanted to write fiction but have not known where to begin. This class will examine the basic principles and techniques of fiction that everyone new to fiction writing needs to know: Point-of-view, dialogue, plotting, and character development. Learn to dig into your own cache of memories and experiences for story material, train your ear for authentic dialogue, and learn the mechanics of creating a scene.