Monday AM & PM Craft Class

"Thank you so much - you are a wonderful instructor, you should know this as many times as you've to heard it. As a very old teacher I love your touch with people." ~ Helen

This page is for all the students in the AM Craft Class  and the PM Craft Class at The Attic. We are in the midst of taking registration and students for the January class.  If you are signed up, get a jump on this terrific class.  Only two books are "required," but I highly recommend all of the below starred books.  

Reading and Teaching Schedule:  TBA

Class Detail:  Writers will read each week - 2 pgs - these are smaller works assigned in class and refined prior to class that contain a beginning, middle, end.  You'll be critiqued on the critique you give in these smaller break out reads.  And we'll workshop - as a group - two longer submissions (schedule announced once registration complete).  You'll have your longer works workshopped by large group twice.  These are intense, fine tune, line edit style workshops from Jennifer as well. 

Teacher Intention:  My goal, in this class, is to teach you all I know about crafting fine scenes via the incorporation of dialogue, sensory details, character development and forward momentum of action.  It is also my intention to give you basic information about plot, structure and character, from a readers view point, so you can better shape your ideas to read the reader. 

  
Class 1 ~ Jan. 13  (AM - 10:30 / PM - 5:30 every other week)  
AM
Class 2 ~ Jan. 20
Class 3 ~ Jan. 27
Class 4 ~ Feb. 3
Class 5 ~ Feb. 10
Class 6 ~ Feb. 17
Class 7 ~ Feb. 24
Class 8 ~ Mar. 3

PM
Class 2 ~ Jan. 27
Class 3 ~ Feb. 10
Class 4 ~ Feb. 24
Class 5 ~ Mar. 10
Class 6 ~ Mar. 24
Class 7 ~ Apr. 7
Class 8 ~ Apr. 21

 

Teacher Intention:  My goal, in this class, is to teach you all I know about crafting fine scenes via the incorporation of dialogue, sensory details, character development and forward momentum of action.  It is also my intention to give you basic information about plot, structure and character, from a readers view point, so you can better shape your ideas to read the reader. 


Reference texts:

*Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
*Story Engineering by Larry Brooks
*Tell it Slant by Brenda Miller (required for Creative Non-Fiction)
Screenwriters Problem Solver by Syd Fields
*Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
*Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walters (required)
The Elements of Style by Strunk/White
The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman