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A Thousand and One Words – Find your Writing Setpoint
April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
| May 29, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 6:00 pm |
| June 3, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 6:00 pm |
| June 19, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 6:00 pm |
Check out this writing workshop with Camille Cusumano, who brings more than 30 years of experience in publishing as researcher, writer, editor, and instructor in a vast array of subject areas including essay, memoir, food, travel, fitness, health, mind/body/spirit, creative non-fiction, fiction, and more.
WRITE WITH CONFIDENCE AND FLAIR
1,000 words is the mean, from which you assess your need to unpack and flesh out or shrink-wrap and tighten your writing. This workshop is for all levels, fresh beginners and experienced writers. It is designed to pump your “autonomic writing system” by understanding your personal writing “setpoint” and thus help you focus your writing, reach your target audience, or just satisfy your own need to finish a piece.
WHEN – Choose from either Saturday, May 29, Thursday, June 3, OR Saturday June 19, 2010, Each workshop is 8 hours — 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE – Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California – by the beautiful Bay.
GOALS: In this 8-hour workshop, we’ll accomplish 4 main goals:
1. Understand and embrace your writing setpoint. Just as with body weight, we all have a writing setpoint—a natural length that suits our message and determines our ideal genre. 1,000 words is the mean, from which you assess your need to unpack and flesh out or shrink-wrap and tighten.
2. Learn to optimize your setpoint:
A. If it tends toward shortness, we’ll learn when/if/how to unpack and expand what might actually be the bones of your outline, where to put the flesh.
B. If your pieces tend to run long, we’ll look at when/if/how to deftly “shrink wrap” your piece without losing a trace of flavor.
3. Learn to preserve the narrative arc. All pieces and genres need this little wave of intrigue, no matter what length. We’ll look at and understand how to make mini or maxi pieces arc effectively.
4. Gain full confidence with your writing setpoint, no matter where it tends. You’ll be able to move forward with finishing work, knowing how your “setpoint” allows you to do that – and never again having that Zeno’s hare feeling that the all-important end is not attainable.
More info at Camille’s website.