THE NEXT LEVEL: Craft Intensives for Dedicated Writers
Award-winning author Joyce Sweeney and Woodstream Writers director, Jamie Morris, know what writers need – time, support, instruction, accurate information, cameraderie, community, and the opportunity to practice the skills that will help them take their work to THE NEXT LEVEL.
Each Next Level Craft Intensive is an engaging, instructive, market-savvy weekend focused onthe writer's craft. Attendees meet individually with workshop leaders; participate in group discussions; attend craft presentations complete with Q+A; revise or develop new work with on-the-spot writing exercises; and have opportunities to present their work to the group--and that's just the beginning!
Join us in Mt. Dora (Lake County, Florida) for . . .
THE NEXT LEVEL: Build Your Novel from the Ground Up, September 16-18, 2011
This workshop is equally perfect for writers with a great idea they're ready to track all the way to a first draft--and writers who have a draft that's somehow gotten off its track!
Have you wondered exactly which tricks of the book-writing trade will take you from the glimmer of a first idea to the strong and shimmering structure of a concrete outline? Whether you're starting from literary scratch or bringing a work-well-in-progress, you will leave this workshop with a viable outline.
Let Joyce and Jamie show you how to . . .
. . . shape your core idea into a powerful, foundational concept,
. . . expand that concept--step-by-step--into a summary, a synopsis, an outline,
. . . use the mysterious, magical "plot clock" as a guide to strengthen your story.
Over the course of three days you will
• achieve a clear(er) vision of your story.
• explore themes that add resonance and meaning to your story.
• add depth to your characters and their world.
• make a map that makes your next steps concrete and specific.
• confer privately with a workshop leader to aim your efforts for best effect.
The cost for THE NEXT LEVEL workshop intensives, $525, includes snacks and supper on Friday evening, full breakfasts and lunches on Saturday and Sunday. Enrollment limited to 14 participants.
Joyce Sweeney is the award-winning author of fourteen novels for young adults. Also a lauded writing teacher and coach, many of her clients have gone on to publish.
Jamie Morris directs Central Florida's Woodstream Writers, leading workshops and intensives regionally--and coaching writers in many genres, towards publication.
Register with Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com or 407-644-5163 for more information
or Joyce Sweeney at grackle@bellsouth.net
