Building a Creative Writing Practice is a workshop designed to help creative writers build and maintain a creative writing life. The workshop explores creating a solid writing practice that fits your lifestyle and personal commitments, understanding procrastination and using concrete methods to combat it, learning ways to keep yourself accountable to “showing up” and getting… Read more »

Learn ways to make your sentences stronger, your dialogue truer, your settings more vivid, and your stories more engaging. Participants will examine a classic short story and then try the techniques on their own to see the difference between blah and blam!   About Nancy Sakaduski Nancy Sakaduski is the author of 23 books, including How… Read more »

This crash course will talk about developing picture books, from idea creation through the writing and editing process. Specific topics will include: age breakdowns, 0-4 and 5-8+ fiction vs. nonfiction brainstorming topics creating memorable characters telling your story developmental stages whether or not to write in rhyme finding a publisher for your work   About… Read more »