Class Description: Writing Toolkit - Mastering Essentials of Writing Fiction with David Alan Brown
Class | Available
Writing is choices, all the way down to deciding which word to use in the last sentence of your last paragraph. And, many choices are made before you start writing! Knowing your audience, your intention, your theme, your characters and genre empowers the creative process when you at last sit down to write. Satisfying the intellectual needs of story construction, backstory and motivation in advance allows the creative part of your brain to focus on creating beautiful prose when writing.
This workshop is about preparing to write. By the end of the session, you will have an understanding of many aspects of story structure, theme, audience, character development and practical tools for getting the work done. Our time is spent with lessons, sharing and feedback, exercises and work time, and celebration of being an artist.
Registrants should bring a project they are considering that is in early stages of development. Please note there are separate classes for fiction and non-fiction. This listing is for the FICTION option. Completed works or drafts will not be read or critiqued.
David Alan Brown
David Alan Brown earned a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of two nonfiction books (The Self-Help Paradox and Answer The Call), and has written a YA novel, short stories and freelance journalism. His play Beginning Again was chosen Best New Play by the Alleyway Theater of Buffalo, NY. The same play, under the title Lily’s Blue, was a winner of the Landing Theatre’s 2015 New American Voices competition and was a semifinalist in Kitchen Dog Theater’s 2014 New Works Festival. His comedy shorts have been performed by The Actor’s Project of New York and Frogs With Fangs Comedy Troupe. David is the author of Convergence, an online personal development course currently available at davidalanbrown.com/convergence.