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Online Fiction and Nonfiction Writing Youth CONTINUING EDUCATION CATALOG CLASS LISTINGSWritingBUSINESSContact: Kathy Berigan, kberigan@dcs.wisc.edu See additional subject listing at www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda/writing Back to basics: grammar, punctuation and writing reviewGood basic writing skills can help you be more successful in your job. This workshop is a refresher of standard English conventions that if used consistently are likely to produce clear communication. Instructor: Alice Honeywell Proofreading and copyeditingThis workshop teaches you how to eliminate embarrassing mistakes and achieve a polished writing style. Learn to mark errors with proofreaders’ symbols and to justify changes when working with writers. We also introduce the best reference tools for editing. Note: This is not a computer-based class. Instructor: Gerry Max Workplace writingLearn some tips for improving your memos, manuals, and reports in this one-day workshop. We focus on 10 ways to improve your writing, include a brief grammar review, and discuss how to create flow, avoid faulty arguments and bias, and win the reader’s approval. Instructor: Alice Honeywell Writing good sentences: editing for clarity and concisenessThis one-and-a-half-day workshop shows you how to write clear, efficient sentences that have good movement and flow. Find out how to create variety in sentence structure and eliminate unneeded words. Topics include dangling and misplaced modifiers, active and passive voice, editing, and punctuation. Instructor: Gerry Max RELATED PROGRAMSFICTION AND NONFICTIONContact: Laura Kahl, lkahl@dcs.wisc.edu See additional subject information www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/writing.
From notebook to new work: a journaling workshopWant to recharge your writing? Join us for exercises that get—and keep—your pen moving. Delve deep into memory and dreams. Write fast to outrun your inner critic, then slow down and ponder. Sift through entries to find a story’s core, the start of a poem, or the heart of a memoir. Transform your experience through language and discover how language transforms you. Instructor: Angela Rydell So you want to start that novelYou’ve created characters you love—maybe some you love to hate. Now it’s time to get them in trouble and ask: what’s at stake? On-the-spot exercises bring your characters and voice into focus. Discover the secret recipe for dynamic settings: fusing character and action. Set goals to maintain momentum, and take home tricks—like dialoging with characters—that spark surprises and promise tension on every page. Instructor: Angela Rydell Take your scenes to the next levelScenes thrive on trouble—not by starting before the trouble begins, describing it, or zooming in on characters contemplating their troubles. Want to punch up your scenes? Set up the tension and tense up the setting. Learn about power plays, contrasting agendas, nested dialogue, starting points, and hooks to transition and build momentum. Bring a scene with you and apply these new techniques right away. Instructor: Laurel Yourke Wednesday writing workshop: intermediateThis ongoing group for writers in all genres meets on 10 Wednesdays between January and May. For dates and details about how the group works, contact Laurel Yourke at 608-265-3972 or lyourke@dcs.wisc.edu. Register: 608-265-3972 Writers’ InstituteFiction and nonfiction writers gather each year to update their craft and marketing know-how. The Institute includes agent pitch meetings, critiques, and the Poem or Page Contest. Instructors: Various Writing a successful screenplayWrite a screenplay that grabs producers, agents, and actors. Beginners, experienced screenwriters frustrated by “passes,” and novelists studying story structure or adapting their books also find this workshop a must. Includes Top 10 Don’t-Go-There Mistakes and Page One/First Five Pages tests. Fee includes critique of first 10 pages. Instructor: Christine DeSmet ONLINEONLINE/ANYTIME Creative nonfictionCreative nonfiction is not the tedious essays you might have suffered through learning to write in school. Instead it allows you to use all the tools of the fiction writer to develop factual material, whether that material is based on your own life or not. This course helps you develop or refine your nonfiction writing skills through one-on-one guidance from an experienced writing instructor. Instructor: Rita Mae Reese, rreese@dcs.wisc.edu ONLINE/ANYTIME The dialogue shopShop the “aisles” of this workshop for professional tools to power-up your dialogue. Topics include: six dialogue functions; 12 techniques to cure flat dialogue; monologues; creating memorable lines; “framing” and “echoing”; six ways to create subtext; private language, dialect, and more; dialogue and character tags; and punctuation power. Both levels offer feedback; at Level 2 you polish several professional techniques. Instructor: Christine DeSmet, cdesmet@dcs.wisc.edu ONLINE/ANYTIME How to write compelling fictionBasic fee includes seven lessons and feedback on exercises covering beginnings, point-of-view, plot, dialogue, characterization, and more. Premium level includes detailed critique of an additional 2,000 words of your fiction. Instructor: Rita Mae Reese, rreese@dcs.wisc.edu ONLINE/ANYTIME How to write great feature articlesInterested in writing feature articles but not quite sure where to begin? Led by professional writer and mentor Rita Mae Reese, this course gives you one-on-one instruction, prompt feedback, fun mini-exercises, and tips on how the pros do it. Learn to organize and write articles that are publishable in today’s mass media. Opens Jan 4. Send a blank e-mail to: join-writing-feature-articles@lists.wisc.edu to join the waiting list. Instructor: Rita Mae Reese, rreese@dcs.wisc.edu ONLINE/ANYTIME Poetry writing: getting to goodThis online poetry workshop first untangles, then interweaves the separate strands of poetry. Units cover sound: melody and music; tangibility: image and emotion; figures of speech: metaphor and meaning; language: compression and explosion; and theme: synthesis and synergy. The course offers analysis of poetry, strategies for revision, checklists, humorous and illustrative examples, a glossary, Web links, interactive questions, and instructor critique. Instructor: Laurel Yourke, lyourke@dcs.wisc.edu ONLINE/ANYTIME Screenwriting: write your first draft fastPour a cup of java and let's make speed mesh with quality. We cover: making a script effective from the start, developing story structure, deepening characterization, enriching scenes, discovering the secrets of middles, finding endings. Level 1/ basic exercises plus feedback on your first 20 pages; Level 2/Be-A-Pro and Script Critique: feedback on all exercises and a critique of your finished draft. Instructor: Christine DeSmet, cdesmet@dcs.wisc.edu ONLINE/ANYTIME Take your characters to dinnerEmbark on a lively e-mail journey through the elements of fiction. Written assignments for each of the 12 units take beginning to advanced writers through character revelation, dialogue, plot, point of view, and setting, and on to your first story or beginning of a novel. The instructor, Laurel Yourke, gives professional feedback to your submissions. Text: Take Your Characters to Dinner by Laurel Yourke. Visit the course at www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/online/writing/fiction. Instructor: Laurel Yourke, lyourke@dcs.wisc.edu YOUTH PROGRAMSwww.dcs.wisc.edu/outreach/youth.htm COMING IN SUMMER
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