8 Week Intermediate Fiction and Memoir with Rachel Weaver
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This workshop is designed for writers who are somewhere in the drafting process and seek guidance, structure, and inspiration to keep writing. Discussions will center on how to identify and articulate the central dramatic question, craft the scene, and build tension. Members will study point-of-view and character development, as well as practice the fundamentals of pacing through the balanced use of showing and telling to maintain dramatic conflict. Participants will share up to 30 pages of their manuscript with the instructor and the group for constructive critique.
This class will help writers tackle what may seem like the overwhelming task of writing a novel or memoir. Whether you're looking for guidance to help you along in your current drafts or are just beginning to face the challenge, this eight-week introductory workshop will provide insight and direction to move you forward in the process. Covering critical questions related to dramatic tension and conflict, character development, dialogue, plotting, setting, and scene work, this class promises an enlightening, encouraging experience to aid you in your writing, present or future.
Where: 357 S. McCaslin in Louisville
When: 8 weeks, Mondays 6:30-8:30, starting Jan 14
Cost: $325 members/$355 nonmembers
Register here: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-week-lighthouse-north%E2%80%94intermediate-fiction-and-memoir?session=1148
Rachel Weaver is the author of the novel Point of Direction, which Oprah Magazine named a Top Ten Book to Pick Up Now. Point of Direction was chosen by the American Booksellers Association as a Top Ten Debut for Spring 2014, by IndieBound as an Indie Next List Pick, by Yoga Journal as one of their Top Five Suggested Summer Reads and won the 2015 Willa Cather Award for Fiction. Prior to earning her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, Rachel worked for the Forest Service in Alaska studying bears, raptors and songbirds. She is on faculty at Regis University’s low-residency MFA program, and at Lighthouse Writers Workshop where she was awarded the 2017 Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence. Her work has appeared in The Sun, Gettysburg Review, Blue Mesa Review, Alaska Women Speak and Fly Fishing New England.