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This page is for students in Craft of Writing at The Attic. We are in the midst of taking registration for Fall Term. We begin Sept. 15 at 10:30 a.m. If you are signed up, check out the schedule Virtual Option.


Class Detail:  You will read aloud several times to get a deep connection to the storyteller's voice within, we will read a selection of literary essays/short stories as well in order to discuss craft and style, and hone your ability to write scene. 

Required Text:  
From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler 

Story by Robert McKee 

Tell it Slant by Brenda Miller. 

Fall Series: Sept. 15 - Nov. 17

Class 1: Sept. 15

Pre-reading:  Feedback (emailed)
Intros, hellos, process of class, discussion of text.
Required Text:  Story, From Where you Dream, Tell it Slant (CNF)

Workshop Readers: TBA
This is a 1250 words total. Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins.  Bring  copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons).  
 
Class 2: Sept. 22
Pre-reading:  TBA

Workshop Readers:
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring 13 copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons).

Class 3: Sept. 29
Pre-reading:  TBA

Workshop Readers: 
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring -- copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons).

Class 4: Oct. 6
Pre-reading: 

Workshop Readers:
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins.  Bring -- copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons). 


Class 5: Oct. 13Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: 
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring -- copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons). 

Class 6:  Oct. 20
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: 
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring 13 copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons).

Class 7: Oct. 27
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: TBA
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins.  Bring -- copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons). 


Class 8: Nov. 3
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: TBA
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring -- copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons). 

Class 9: Nov. 10
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: TBA
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring -- copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons).

Class 10: Nov. 17
Pre-reading: TBA

Workshop Readers: 
This is a 1250 word submission.  Double spaced, 12 point font, New Times Roman with one inch margins. Bring -- copies please (copy service at corner next to New Seasons).



Reference texts: 
Keep it Short by Danny Heitman (Click on link)
Debra Gwartney on Memoir  (click on link) 
Philip Lopate on Writing Personal Essays  (click on link)
Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
Story Engineering by Larry Brooks
Screenwriters Problem Solver by Syd Fields
Story by Robert McKee

Book Suggestions:

Live Through This by Debra Qwartney
Crazy for the Storm by Norm Olestead
Figment of my Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith 
SUGGESTED PROGRAM:  Scrivener (free download for 30 days).