Notes from The Writer's Corner

This week: An inspiring craft talk with our friend Steve Almond. Next week: Award-winning director Kimberly Senior on articulating your point of view.

Loved having our friend Steve Almond on as the guest this week! We had such an inspiring conversation covering so many facets of the writing process including:
• The difference between a writer “performing” versus storytelling.
• How to use language as an instrument of truth.
• The difference between conceiving a plot versus advancing a plot (and how this can help a writer decide what stays in and what comes out).
• Common writing blocks and how to reframe what might be holding you back.
• What makes a great narrator?
• And so much more!

Here is a link to the recording (Passcode: 0ZL*2r?J).

Steve also has some great classes coming up in the new year ...
Individual classes:
Brilliant Openings - https://www.writingco-lab.com/classes/brilliantopenings

Unforgettable characters - https://www.writingco-lab.com/classes/almond-joy-unforgettablecharacters

Irresistible narrator - https://www.writingco-lab.com/classes/irresistiblenarrator

How to Master Chronology - https://www.writingco-lab.com/classes/chronology

For all four classes:
https://www.writingco-lab.com/classes/almond-joy-masterclassquartet

What’s coming up next week …

December 9 at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. - Kimberly Senior on Articulating Your Point of View
Our last session of 2024! Join us for a conversation with award-winning director Kimberly Senior on how to effectively articulate your point of view as a creative. Kimberly is the author of WHAT WOULD A PERSON DO?: THOUGHTS ON DIRECTING AND LIVING. Kimberly was the director of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. She made her HBO debut with Chris Gethard: Career Suicide, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Kimberly was awarded the prestigious Alan Schneider Award at the 2016 TCG Conference. She is also a 2013 Finalist for the SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award. She is the recipient of the 2016 Special Non-Equity Jeff Award for her Chicago career achievements as a trail blazer, champion and role model for emerging artists and creatives.