Perfect for anyone who contemplates NaNoWriMo, or who needs that extra boost in structuring a complex story.
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: October 27th
Screenwriting Structure for Authors : More and more, publishers are looking for books that have the pacing, emotional impact, and big, unique, "high concept" premises of Hollywood movies (and the potential for that movie or TV sale!).
Screenwriting is a compressed and dynamic storytelling form and the techniques of screenwriting are easily adaptable to novel writing.
In this workshop you'll learn how to use techniques of film writing such as:
- the High Concept Premise
- the Three-Act, Eight-Sequence Structure
- the Storyboard Grid
- the Index Card Method of Plotting
as well as tricks of film pacing and suspense, character arc and drive, visual storytelling, and building image systems - to structure and color your novel for maximum emotional impact, unbearable suspense and riveting pacing, no matter what genre you're writing in.
You'll start to create your own personalized workbook of genre tricks tailored to you own brand of storytelling and a collage book to build visual image systems. And the emphasis on premise is invaluable for crafting that all-important pitch.
Whether you're just starting to develop a story or rewriting for maximum impact, this workshop can help make the process successful, easy, and fun.
About Alex:
As a screenwriter, Alexandra Sokoloff has sold original mystery and thriller scripts and written novel adaptations for numerous Hollywood studios. Her debut ghost story, THE HARROWING, was nominated for both a Bram Stoker award (horror) and Anthony award (mystery) for Best First Novel. Her second supernatural thriller, THE PRICE, was called “some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre” by the New York Times Book Review, and her short story, “The Edge of Seventeen”, won the International Thriller Writers' Thriller award. Alex’s third spooky thriller, THE UNSEEN, is out now, and is based on real-life experiments conducted at the parapsychology lab on the Duke University campus. BOOK OF SHADOWS and SHIFTERS, her first Harlequin Nocturne, are coming in 2010, and SCREENWRITING TRICKS FOR AUTHORS, based on her popular workshop and blog (http://screenwritingtricks.com), is now available at Amazon.
http://alexandrasokoloff.com
Open to: ALL WRITERS, regardless of genre or level. You will work at your own pace with interaction with the instructor, appropriate for your level of expertise. The class uses yahoogroups as the meeting place, and you'll receive the lessons via email and will be able to interact with the instructor and class at your own pace for the month duration. All lessons and files will be available for you for download.
Deadline to Register: October 27, 2010
Click this link to register: http://pasic.net/class_registration.php
Cost: $20 for PASIC members, $30 for non-members
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Secrets of World Building
September 1 - 30th, 2010
Every novelist, no matter the genre, needs to build a world that they invite the reader to experience. Building a compelling, evocative world that your reader can relate to on a visceral level will make your reader's experience come to life!
Join national bestselling, award-winning author CJ Lyons as she explores a variety of techniques that can help you build your fictional world.
Topics covered in this highly interactive workshop will include:
•Micro-world building details
•How to show, not tell
•3D characters
•Taboo topics: sex, religion, and politics
•Power of myth
•Darwin's Rules: Creature Building
•Racial Profiling
and more!
About CJ:
As a pediatric ER doctor, CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about. In addition to being an award-winning medical suspense author, CJ is a nationally known presenter and keynote speaker. She has been invited all over the country to present her workshops and speak to audiences ranging from physicians to first responders to romance and thriller authors including: Colorado Fiction Writers, Oklahoma Writers Federation, the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, RWA National, MWA's Sleuthfest, Lowcountry RWA's Master Class, Left Coast Crime, and PennWriters, among others.
Her first novel, LIFELINES (Berkley, March 2008), received praise as a "breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller" from Publishers Weekly, was reviewed favorably by the Baltimore Sun and Newsday, named a Top Pick by Romantic Times Book Review Magazine, and became a National Bestseller. LIFELINES also won a Readers' Choice Award for Best First Novel.
Her award-winning, critically acclaimed Angels of Mercy series (LIFELINES, WARNING SIGNS, and URGENT CARE) is available in stores now. Her newest project is as co-author of a new suspense series with Erin Brockovich. To learn more about CJ and her work, go to www.cjlyons.net.
http://pasic.net/class_lyons_092010.html
Deadline to Register: August 27, 2010
Every novelist, no matter the genre, needs to build a world that they invite the reader to experience. Building a compelling, evocative world that your reader can relate to on a visceral level will make your reader's experience come to life!
Join national bestselling, award-winning author CJ Lyons as she explores a variety of techniques that can help you build your fictional world.
Topics covered in this highly interactive workshop will include:
•Micro-world building details
•How to show, not tell
•3D characters
•Taboo topics: sex, religion, and politics
•Power of myth
•Darwin's Rules: Creature Building
•Racial Profiling
and more!
About CJ:
As a pediatric ER doctor, CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about. In addition to being an award-winning medical suspense author, CJ is a nationally known presenter and keynote speaker. She has been invited all over the country to present her workshops and speak to audiences ranging from physicians to first responders to romance and thriller authors including: Colorado Fiction Writers, Oklahoma Writers Federation, the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, RWA National, MWA's Sleuthfest, Lowcountry RWA's Master Class, Left Coast Crime, and PennWriters, among others.
Her first novel, LIFELINES (Berkley, March 2008), received praise as a "breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller" from Publishers Weekly, was reviewed favorably by the Baltimore Sun and Newsday, named a Top Pick by Romantic Times Book Review Magazine, and became a National Bestseller. LIFELINES also won a Readers' Choice Award for Best First Novel.
Her award-winning, critically acclaimed Angels of Mercy series (LIFELINES, WARNING SIGNS, and URGENT CARE) is available in stores now. Her newest project is as co-author of a new suspense series with Erin Brockovich. To learn more about CJ and her work, go to www.cjlyons.net.
http://pasic.net/class_lyons_092010.html
Deadline to Register: August 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
PASIC June On-Line Classes
June 1 - 30th, 2010
ACCELERATED SCREENWRITING: THE CRASH COURSE
Presenter: Max Adams
Cost: $20.00 PASIC members, $30.00 non-members - payable by PayPal
Deadline to Register: May 28, 2010
A PASIC EXCLUSIVE
Accelerated Screenwriting : The Crash Course : One month PASIC online writing course begins Tuesday June 1st. The Crash Course is a take your foot off the brakes month long introduction to screenwriting that covers the foundations of writing for film: Format; structure; characterization; dialogue; subtext; action; description; point of view; scene structure; exposition; film openings; film endings; story; visuals; and plot. This is a no holds barred course taught by professional screenwriter Max Adams [Excess Baggage, The Ladykillers].
Max is the author of The Screenwriter's Survivial Guide: Or, Guerilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War [Warner Books], has woked with Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Universal, Tri-Star and Columbia Pictures, is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops, Left Door and 5150, is a former AFI Alumni reader and WGA online mentor as well as a current Nicholl reader and judge, and is a 2010 recipient of the College of Fine Arts Distinguishd Alumni Award from University of Utah. Scripts and script exerpts will be provided. Some outside film viewing is required. Some short writing exercises are also required.
http://pasic.net/class_adams_062010.html
ACCELERATED SCREENWRITING: THE CRASH COURSE
Presenter: Max Adams
Cost: $20.00 PASIC members, $30.00 non-members - payable by PayPal
Deadline to Register: May 28, 2010
A PASIC EXCLUSIVE
Accelerated Screenwriting : The Crash Course : One month PASIC online writing course begins Tuesday June 1st. The Crash Course is a take your foot off the brakes month long introduction to screenwriting that covers the foundations of writing for film: Format; structure; characterization; dialogue; subtext; action; description; point of view; scene structure; exposition; film openings; film endings; story; visuals; and plot. This is a no holds barred course taught by professional screenwriter Max Adams [Excess Baggage, The Ladykillers].
Max is the author of The Screenwriter's Survivial Guide: Or, Guerilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War [Warner Books], has woked with Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Universal, Tri-Star and Columbia Pictures, is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops, Left Door and 5150, is a former AFI Alumni reader and WGA online mentor as well as a current Nicholl reader and judge, and is a 2010 recipient of the College of Fine Arts Distinguishd Alumni Award from University of Utah. Scripts and script exerpts will be provided. Some outside film viewing is required. Some short writing exercises are also required.
http://pasic.net/class_adams_062010.html
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
SCREENWRITING TOOLS FOR NOVELISTS
SCREENWRITING TOOLS FOR NOVELISTS
Presenter: Robert Gregory Browne
Cost: $20 PASIC members, $30 for non-members payable by PayPal
Deadline to register: August 26, 2009
register at http://www.pasic. net/workshops. html
Want to know how to put a little zing into your plot lines and characterization? Want a quick and easy way to approach story structure that will keep your readers turning the pages?
Some writers will tell you that screenplays and novels are completely different art forms, but the truth is, whether you're a screenwriter or a novelist, your job is to grab your readers immediately and keep them in your grip until you're ready to let them go. Novelist Robert Gregory Browne will show you the tricks he learned as an award-winning screenwriter to help you do just that.
Topics covered include:
* Creating characters that jump off the page
* Structuring like the screenwriting pros
* Dialog tricks that will keep the story moving
* Avoiding "on the nose" writing
* Creating subtext that deepens a scene
* Enter Late/Leave Early
* Thinking in scenes
* Setting short-term goals that will lessen the burden
* All about "buttons" (what are they? And how can they help make your book a pageturner?)
About the Presenter:
Nicholl-Award winning former screenwriter Robert Gregory Browne has been a professional writer for over twenty years, working with Showtime, Viacom, Fox Kids, Saban, Joel Silver, and Marvel before turning to long-form fiction.
Rob's first novel, KISS HER GOODBYE, was praised by bestselling authors Tess Gerritsen, Kay Hooper and Gayle Lynds, and his follow-up, WHISPER IN THE DARK, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, calling it a "deeply satisfying story [that] moves at a furious pace, packed with unexpected and original clues and plot twists." Bestselling author, Allison
Brennan, says that "Browne's thrillers are lean, mean, and thoroughly entertaining, " and Bookfinds.com says, "This is a writer whose name will soon be a household word." To learn more about Rob and his work, go to www.robertgregorybrowne.com.
Deadline to Register: August 26, 2009
FMI go to http://www.pasic. net/workshops. html
Presenter: Robert Gregory Browne
Cost: $20 PASIC members, $30 for non-members payable by PayPal
Deadline to register: August 26, 2009
register at http://www.pasic. net/workshops. html
Want to know how to put a little zing into your plot lines and characterization? Want a quick and easy way to approach story structure that will keep your readers turning the pages?
Some writers will tell you that screenplays and novels are completely different art forms, but the truth is, whether you're a screenwriter or a novelist, your job is to grab your readers immediately and keep them in your grip until you're ready to let them go. Novelist Robert Gregory Browne will show you the tricks he learned as an award-winning screenwriter to help you do just that.
Topics covered include:
* Creating characters that jump off the page
* Structuring like the screenwriting pros
* Dialog tricks that will keep the story moving
* Avoiding "on the nose" writing
* Creating subtext that deepens a scene
* Enter Late/Leave Early
* Thinking in scenes
* Setting short-term goals that will lessen the burden
* All about "buttons" (what are they? And how can they help make your book a pageturner?)
About the Presenter:
Nicholl-Award winning former screenwriter Robert Gregory Browne has been a professional writer for over twenty years, working with Showtime, Viacom, Fox Kids, Saban, Joel Silver, and Marvel before turning to long-form fiction.
Rob's first novel, KISS HER GOODBYE, was praised by bestselling authors Tess Gerritsen, Kay Hooper and Gayle Lynds, and his follow-up, WHISPER IN THE DARK, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, calling it a "deeply satisfying story [that] moves at a furious pace, packed with unexpected and original clues and plot twists." Bestselling author, Allison
Brennan, says that "Browne's thrillers are lean, mean, and thoroughly entertaining, " and Bookfinds.com says, "This is a writer whose name will soon be a household word." To learn more about Rob and his work, go to www.robertgregorybrowne.com.
Deadline to Register: August 26, 2009
FMI go to http://www.pasic. net/workshops. html
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