Tag: Craft
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Creative Writing Lab with Wendy Brown-Baez
Sorry, this workshop has been postponed! Hone your skills- during each session, we will highlight a specific craft element: descriptive details, character development, dialogue, and plot. We’ll discuss the examples from published authors and practice through writing exercises in a supportive and fun atmosphere. We’ll share ideas to further your writing goals. For fiction or…
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Reimagining Traditional Stories
by Loren Niemi – March 27, 2022 What do you remember about your favorite fairy tale? The major characters? Three pigs, a wolf… The basic plot? They build houses, the wolf blows the first two down but can’t shake the third. What else? The setting? Where were the pig’s houses? The time of year? Springtime…
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How Erotic is that?
by Loren Niemi – September 8, 2021 When we posted the description for “The Erotic in Stories” some wag commented that it was “talking about pee-pee” which probably says a lot about his proclivities but nothing about what the workshop actually is. If anything, that comment points out the need for a considered understanding about…
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Forgetting the Middle for a Moment
Both beginnings and ending require careful crafting. It has been said that if you know where you begin and where you end the middle will fill itself in.