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Igniting the Story in Your Writing Process: A 2-Day Bootcamp with Andre Dubus III

Presented by Gemini Ink Writing Arts Center at Online/Virtual Space

Jun 19 - 20 2021
Igniting the Story in Your Writing Process: A 2-Day Bootcamp with Andre Dubus III

Come to this workshop, and I will seek to demystify those writerly tools and skills that time and time again, if they are sharp enough, and if the writer can summon enough daily faith and nerve, can penetrate the mystery of story itself.

If I teach nothing in my writing classes, I teach this: do not outline your memoir (or novel or novella or short story or essay). Do not think out the plot, the narrative arc, the protagonist’s journey, whatever you want to call it. Instead, try to find the story through an honest excavation of the characters’ total experience of the situation at hand. Do that, and I promise the story will begin to write itself, with little help from the godly, intelligent, well-read, and ambitious author. ... view more »

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Cost: Nonmembers $175, Members $150, Students $75

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