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Building a Better Story

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Date: Jan 18, 20, 22 (M-W-F)

Time: 5:30-7:00

Where: Writer’s Atelier, 336 Grove Ave, Suite B, Winter Park, FL 32789

Cost: $60

Contact: Racquel Henry to sign up racquel@racquelhenry.com.

 

 

Workshop – Building a Better Story:

 

Award-winning YA author Christina, of The Geneva Project, is offering a one week writing workshop for Teens. Benjamin paints a vivid world, where magic and imagination run wild in her writing and aims to teach your teen how to do the same with her interactive workshop. This workshop will discuss character development, setting the scene, using imagination and creating a winning plot. Christina uses her own vivid scenery and complex characters as examples while helping your students each create their own story chart. 

 

Workshop Goals:

 

•             Each student will have opportunity to create their own fictional character.

•             Map out their own fictional backstory and scenery.

•             See how to add to and enhance existing work.

•             Students gain new tools for developing their writing.

•             Better understanding of how to put their ideas into written words.

•             Solid foundation of a new story project to continue writing on their own.

How Writers Become Authors

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Winter Park author and veteran UCF English professor Gerald Schiffhorst  is conducting a workshop this winter, How Writers Become Authors.  Intended  for fiction and non-fiction writers at all levels who want to develop greater skills, the six-week course will focus on Unblocking, Describing, Crafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing.  It will meet on Saturdays from 1-2:30 p.m. from Feb. 6 through March 12,  2016, at the Winter Park Public Library. Fee: $30. To register or find out more, contact the instructor at schiffhorst@yahoo.com. 

(This course will be repeated in the summer from June 16-July 21.)

 

**Gerald Schiffhorst is the author of a recently published novel, Friends and Brothers, available on Kindle, and he has had two stories published in the Provo Canyon Review.

Let’s Do This!

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I know; I know. Everybody hits you up during the holidays, when budgets are stretched thin and credit card bills are looming. But please dig deep into your goodwill-toward-men and send a few bucks to keep the amazing work that Burrow Press is doing in Central Florida alive.

These folks work tirelessly to ensure that Orlando’s cultural scene doesn’t start and end at the theme parks. I’ve already made (an admittedly small) donation, and today, to help them reach their goal of $5,000 (which will be TRIPLED by an anonymous donor if they make it by midnight tonight) I’m going to send another small slice of green their way.

Won’t you join me?  This feel-good will last all year long!

Donate here.

Here is Ryan Rivas’ eloquent call to action:

“At the start of our December fund drive, we set out to raise $5,000.

Then, in a Dickensian turn of events, an anonymous donor pledged

to triple-match that amount if we met our goal before the new year.

 

We are only $500 away from turning 5K into 15K.

 

Help us get there before the ball drops!

 

Give Now

 

 

Your contribution will help us fulfill our

2016 New Year’s resolutions, which include:

paying all our BP Review contributors and editors,

doubling our online publishing opportunities,

launching a beautiful new website,  bringing Philip F. Deaver’s long-awaited new book

into the light of day, continuing to bring world-class

authors to town for Functionally Literate,

throwing an even bigger Literary Death Match

fundraiser, teaming up with other small presses

for a big event at Miami Book Fair, and, as always,

making Orlando and Florida a literary hub.

 

$500. By midnight. With your help, we can do it!

 

Give Now

 

 

To all those who donated, volunteered, bought a book,

came to an event, or simply wished us well in 2015,

we thank you, and hope to run into you

(in real life or on the internetz) in the new year!”

Patricia! Lezlie! You!

Stop Talking, Start Writing Your Life Story

The start of a new year is the perfect time to begin a life story writing project, and Patricia Charpentier wants to help you do just that. We love to tell our stories — the funny ones, the heartbreaking ones, the unbelievable ones — because in sharing our stories, we connect with others. But at some point, we need to stop just telling our stories and start writing them.

In “Stop Talking, Start Writing Your Life Story,” you learn:

  • How to overcome procrastination and begin writing your stories
  • How to fend off the inner critic and find your seat of inspiration
  • How to identify core story ideas
  • How to painlessly organize your writing
  • How to conquer perfectionism

If you’re ready to stop talking and start writing your life story, then join Patricia and a lively band of writers on Saturday, January 16th from 1 to 4 pm.

Make plans to stay after the workshop for wine, cheese and good conversation.

Faculty

Workshop facilitator Patricia Charpentier is an author, speaker, teacher, editor and founder of Writing Your Life. She has motivated and guided hundreds of people to leave written legacies for their families. Learn more at http://writingyourlife.org.

Registration

Workshop registration in the amount of $35 per participant is required to reserve your seat for this event.

Please note that this fee is nonrefundable. If plans change and you are unable to attend this event after reserving a seat, contact info@lezlielaws.com to discuss transferring your registration to another LifeArt Studio event.

When
Where
Walden Community School – 4595 Howell Branch Road Winter Park, FL 32792 – View Map

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