Anatomy of the College Essay
When: On Zoom, August 19th, 4 PM PST
Where: Your living room
Cost: $25
The college essay is a very specific form of storytelling focusing on voice, narrative, and memory as a way of highlighting a specific set of skills. In this 90-minute session, I will provide a brief overview of the basic types of college essays your senior might encounter on her/his applications as well as some specific writing exercises to help develop and polish the various essays.
The 100 Word Story in the Language Arts Classroom
When: On Zoom, August 27th, 4 PM PST
Where: Your living room
Cost: $25
This 90-minute Zoom session will cover the basic form of the 100 Word Story and how you as a teacher can use this form to teach literary devices in your language arts classroom. We will cover the fiction essentials for writing a 100 Word Story: character, POV, setting, arc, specific detail, conflict, etc. and we will look at how a 100 Word Story uses its brevity to create its tension and structure. We will also look at how you can use this specific form as a jumping off place to explore these elements in other pieces of writing. This session will offer sample lesson plans, exercises, and a Q&A time for discussing how to specifically apply this to a distance learning environment.
100 Word Story Writing Workshop for Teens!
When: On Zoom, September 17th, 4 PM PST
Where: Your living room
Cost: $25
Do you have a teen fiction writer?
I will be teaching a 90-minute Zoom session for teens on writing the 100 Word Story form.
We will cover the fiction essentials for writing a 100 Word Story: character, POV, setting, arc, specific detail, conflict, etc. but we will also look at how a 100 Word Story uses its brevity to create its tension and structure. The skills learned in the class will also help support any longer works of fiction your teen writer is currently exploring. The class will focus on exploring each craft element through exercises and short readings.