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Summer/Fall Writing Pad Classes
One Night Stands/One Day Classes: Multi Week Classes:
Delectable Blog Writing Workshop (1 Day) I/IICome to Writing Pad and surf the online writing wave! You can use a blog to express your passion for fly fishing, gourmet food or football or go on and on about how adorable your kids are. Blog writing is a fantastic genre for beginning and experienced writers and runs the gamut from diary entries to polished political manifestos to haiku long movie reviews. In this class, we’ll help you use your personal experiences and sentiments to create irresistible pieces of online writing whether you want to try writing out for the first time, start a blog, or you already have a blog but you want to give it more pizzazz. We’ll help you fascinate your readers with your inside scoop on new restaurants, movies, politics or just the goings-on inside your very own brain! Through brand new, fun writing exercises every class meeting, we’ll help you cultivate your voice and post your first musings, and we’ll go over some basic technical aspects to get your blog posted. Not to mention, our tasty snacks will make sure your hard-drive doesn’t crash. New and experienced bloggers welcome!
About Tim Grierson:
Delicious DialogueDo you want to write a screenplay? Whether you’re writing for stage or screen, dialogue is key. This one day class will help you concoct scrumptious dialogue that sounds real and distinct. We’ll also show you how dialogue can be used to advance a story and to express who your characters are as individuals and what they are feeling and thinking. Our fun, in-class writing exercises will help get the fire burning under ideas already percolating in your head and help you discover the fascinating scenes waiting to be unpacked from your mental pantry! Experienced and beginning writers welcome. This session will include gourmet tasting plates that will tantalize both the California creative exec and the New York playwright inside of you.
About Aaron Henne:
Stageplay or Screenplay: Which Is For You (1 Day) I/IIDo you have a story you're burning to tell? Not sure if it would be better as a screenplay or stage play? This class will help you decide, as well as strengthen your dialogue, scene structure, character development, and idea generating skills. You’ll get a brief overview of the full-length screenplay and three act theatrical play, delve into well-written scenes, and generate new work. You’ll learn how to infuse your stories with humor and mine your personal life for juicy material. You’ll even get started on your next big blockbuster. Experienced and beginning writers welcome. This session will include gourmet tasting plates that will tantalize both the California creative exec and the New York playwright inside of you.
About Aaron Henne:
Writing Pad Book Club: Read to Feed Your CraftHave you always wanted to write a novel or a short story? Do you enjoy spending weekends lounging on the couch devouring a book? Then come to the Writing Pad Book Club, where you can learn how to make your book as good as a bestseller! In this class, we’ll take lively book club chit chat to a new level and show you how to read to enhance your writing, like a chef tastes food. The instructors will analyze how authors skillfully blend essential ingredients (e.g., plot, character, conflict point of view, scene, universal themes, etc.) and sprinkle in secret spices of their own. Then we’ll use the flavorful stories we’ve sampled to enhance the flavor of our own writing. Class includes Dominican inspired brunch tasting plates so delicious they’ll satisfy the most discriminating palette. Experienced and beginning book lovers and writers welcome. This month, we'll dig into the delectable book, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
About Marilyn Friedman: About Amy Robinson:
Write the Road Less Traveled: Writing Pad Nature WalkDo you enjoy the outdoors or are you passionate about the environment or nature? Come to the Writing Pad Nature Walk and channel your inner Walt Whitman. We’ll help you get your creative juices moving and use beautiful natural surroundings to encourage the ideas floating around the clouds of your brain to set onto the page! We'll get your blood flowing with a short, 30 minute walk above the ocean on the cliffs of Malibu. We’ll also sample a few, fresh, nature-inspired readings and do two to three fun, nature-inspired writing exercises. Experienced and beginning writers welcome. Class includes a decadent, eco-friendly picnic lunch of local and organic goodies that will tantalize your inner Robert Frost. Climb a mountain with us and tell your inner critic to take a hike! You’ll head for home at the end of the day with a sheaf of work, a belly full of yummy goodies, and a recipe for bringing out your unique wild child at home.
Includes gourmet picnic and dessert About Amy Robinson:
Blog Writing Tasting Menu (3 Week)Have you ever watched some hipster typing furiously on his laptop in a café and thought, ‘One day, I’d like to start my own blog’? Or do you already have a blog but you want to give it more pizzazz? This three-week intensive will help you find (or refine) your blogging niche, voice, and give you the basic technical know-how to get it working. Through expert instructor feedback, fantastic blog samples, fun in-class writing exercises, and homework assignments, you’ll enjoy sampling till you discover the online genre that’s most scrumptious to you. We’ll stock your writing pantry with the staples for a flavorful blog: including hooks, humor, specificity, and passion. Not to mention, our tasty snacks will make sure your hard-drive doesn’t crash. New and experienced bloggers welcome!
About Tim Grierson:
Stageplay or Screenplay: Which Is For You? (4 Week)You’ve always dreamed of finishing a best-selling screenplay or award-winning stage play. You can do it, and this class will help you! This 4 week intensive will help you strengthen your dialogue, scene structure, character development, and idea generating skills. Through expert instructor feedback, fantastic writing samples, fun in-class writing exercises, and homework assignments, we’ll help you create well-written scenes and generate a substantial chunk of your next big blockbuster by the end of the class. You’ll delve deeply into the full-length screenplay and three act theatrical play structure and decide which is your preferred genre. Experienced and beginning writers welcome. Each class meeting will include gourmet tasting plates that will tantalize both the California creative exec and the New York playwright inside of you such as Manhattan mini blinis with capers, smoked salmon, and crème fraiche and Flourless Chocolate San Andreas Fault Cake.
About Aaron Henne:
So You Want To Be A Writer? (I/II/III/IV/V)You’ve always dreamed of finding the time to write on a regular basis or to finish a screenplay, a novel, a collection of poems, or a story. You can do it, and this class will help you! Brand new, fun writing exercises and our balanced workshopping sessions will motivate you to keep going. We’ll also show you how to design (or redesign) your writing practice, plan your projects, and tackle revision without pain. This is boot camp Writing Pad style (no steel toe boots necessary). Experienced and beginning writers welcome. Each session includes tea and a tasting plate and dessert such as polenta with truffle onion relish and baked apples with caramel sauce.
About Marilyn Friedman:
Finishing SchoolEnroll your unruly writing project in Finishing School! We’ll take the poetry, short story, novel or screenplay project that you’ve dreamed about writing and help you build a realistic but fun plan to get it done. Targeted in-class and homework assignments will help you access your imagination in new ways, inspire you to generate new pages every week, refine and elevate the craft of your work, and nudge that project to the finish line. Before you know it, your stacks of ideas will flow into a manageable, page-turner that will sing like the Von Trapps at Christmastime. Each session includes tea and a tasting plate or dessert such as mini polenta cakes with mushroom ragout and lemon panna cotta with blackberries.
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Instructor: Tim Grierson
Instructor: Aaron Henne
Instructors: Amy Robinson and Marilyn Friedman
