THE WRITER’S VOICE
A six-week writing intensive designed to help writers understand voice as a whole, and to understand the elements that make her own voice unique.
The exercises are mostly timed writings, and are designed to build, week by week, to help you see what you have to offer the world with your work. Are you a funny ethnic writers with a thread of poignance? A serious historical novelist with roots deep in a particular time? What influenced you to become a writer and what do you want to get from it? Who taught you to speak, and what have you read and loved? These are all elements of the writer’s voice.
The class runs from Tuesday to Tuesday, and is comprised of lecture, exercises and discussion. Due to the reading and writing requirement, class size is limited to 8. A 20% discount is offered for groups of five or more, and there is one scholarship available for each segment. To be considered, email me with "scholarship" in the subject line and specify which class and date you want to be considered for.
Questions? Email me.
COST: $225
DATES: October 1, 2008 (to give us time to finish before the holidays begin)
Voice II will begin on October 22
SYLLABUS
WEEK ONE:
What is voice, exactly?
Childhood and cultural influences
WEEK TWO
Becoming Aware: ourselves and our places
Voice vs. Style
WEEK THREE
Other influences: other writers, stories, genres.
Individual truth and emotional honestly; why writing is scary sometimes, even if you’re making it up and the heroine is a princess for heaven’s sake
WEEK FOUR
Check in: how does it feel? Discussion.
More on influences and exercises on how to see them, see yourself, see others, pick out a voice
Illustrating the differences.
WEEK FIVE
Exercises designed to show individual voice and quests.
Two part exercise designed to illustrate each individual voice. Reading, side by side posts.
WEEK SIX
Pulling it all together. A worksheet and discussion to help each writer answer lingering questions, put all her ideas in one place, and have a chance to display her own work.