Identify the core element of your story's fascination for readers
Learn researching and interviewing techniques to gather details
Cultivate your unique writing voice
Formulate your story into a series of episodes for dramatic and imaginative effect
About this course:
This course is for anyone who has a story from "real life" that needs to be told. Sometimes your story is about a person, place, thing or some concealed part of yourself; a remembered time or event; or even something that will happen as you give account to its unfolding. Over the span of this course, you identify this element of your story's core fascination and acquire the skills to tell it, including researching and interviewing techniques, cultivating your own unique writing voice and constructing your story into a combination of episodes that advance and present it to best dramatic and imaginative effect. Finally, you investigate possible venues where each story might most effectively be presented.
This course is held via video teleconference. Instructors use Zoom to offer live class meetings at the designated class meeting time. Students must be present at the course meeting time as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation. Please inform your instructor if you will miss a class meeting. You are responsible for any class information you missed. We suggest you arrange with a fellow classmate to share their notes when feasible.
Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.
Refund Deadline
No refunds after January 22, 2025
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
Schedule
Type
Date
Time
Location
Online
Wed Jan 8, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Jan 15, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Jan 22, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Jan 29, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Feb 5, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Feb 12, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Feb 19, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Feb 26, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Mar 5, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Wed Mar 12, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Spring 2025 Schedule
Date & Time
Details
Format
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Wednesday 7:00PM - 10:00PM PT
Future Offering (Opens February 03, 2025 12:00:00 AM)
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