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Craft: A 4-Week Screenwriting Intensive

Jacob Krueger Studio @ 247 W 35th St, New York, NY

What is the fastest most efficient way to master something? Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. In this class you will be focusing strictly on Craft. By stepping away from your story and your characters we get the opportunity to really dig in and morph your craft into the most effective tools in your arsenal. Before they ever step out onto the field, pitchers train. A pitcher will throw curveball after curveball after curve ball until...

(43) Intermediate 18 and older
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$375

4 sessions

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Craft: A 4-Week Screenwriting Intensive

Jacob Krueger Studio @ 247 W 35th St, New York, NY

What is the fastest most efficient way to master something? Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. In this class you will be focusing strictly on Craft. By stepping away from your story and your characters we get the opportunity to really dig in and morph your craft into the most effective tools in your arsenal. Before they ever step out onto the field, pitchers train. A pitcher will throw curveball after curveball after curve ball until...

(43) Intermediate 18 and older
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$375
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Write That Fu*king Pilot

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

In this no-nonsense, no-excuses one-off, we'll lay the foundation for that half hour comedy pilot you've been dragging your heels on. The course will tackle loglines, title, concept and theme, and then work on A,B and C stories and structure. This straightforward formula will make the actual writing part far less intimidating, you'll have everything you need for your first draft in just three hours.  Please Note: Outside food and drinks are...

(252) All levels 18 and older
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Freelancing Workshop

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

We’ll cover generating ideas, understanding markets, getting to the right editor, pitching the story, and contracts and rights issues. Students will also write in-class pitches, to be critiqued on the spot, for magazines and web sites. Longtime independent journalist Tim Harper, a CUNY J-School Craft professor and writing coach, will teach the class. He has written a dozen books, helped many other writers with their books, and written hundreds...

(64) All levels 18 and older
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$109

2 sessions

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Playwriting: Short Forms

Primary Stages ESPA

A quick glance through any play submission call board proves it: short plays are in high demand. Developing a strong portfolio of short plays is one of the fastest ways to become a produced playwright. Short plays require an ability to convey character, effective dialogue, and action without extensive exposition, and in this 10-week class, you’ll learn how not to waste a single word. From this class, you’ll take away the skills to craft surprising...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Lyric Writing

Primary Stages ESPA

Lyrics are the foundation of musical theater storytelling and, for many playwrights, the final frontier. This 8-week class will teach you to apply your existing storytelling impulses to a lyric format. This class might be for you if you are: An early-career lyricist looking for a comprehensive introduction to this exciting and collaborative form. A playwright looking to delve into the world of musicals. A musical theater artist who wants to...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Screenwriting Structure

Primary Stages ESPA

Describing his process, Woody Allen has said, “The idea emerges and once it gets to the writing stage, all the work’s been done.  It’s really all the pre-work that’s the real heavy work.”   This 10-week class will focus on all the “pre-work” that goes into transforming the glimmer of an idea into a full length screenplay. You will first screen several contemporary films and analyze the basic principles of the traditional three-act...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Getting to the Rewrite

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Completing a draft is a huge accomplishment, but shifting your point of view from writing to rewriting can be disorienting and murky. In this 2-day writing workshop with Melissa Ross, you will dig into the play, ask it new questions, and emerge with a clear vision for your rewrites. This class might be for you if you: Have a draft of a play that you are ready to begin the revision process on, but need to get organized before embarking on rewrites....

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Writing to Ignite Your Soul’s Essence

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

Words as Medicine,Words as Makers of Worlds: Writing to Ignite Your Soul’s Essence  The exploration of the self can be a perilous journey fraught with uncertainty and resistance from within and without. Writing, when approached with the right intent, can be a meditation and a way to come in contact with the unlit parts of who we are. This workshop is not intended to make you an author, but to help you use writing to connect you fully to the...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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$150
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The Rewrite

Primary Stages ESPA

As soon as you finish your last line of dialogue, the need for rewrites begins. Open to new and returning students, this class will start by establishing individualized writing goals to conquer over ten weeks. Whether you choose to embark on a rewrite of your entire play or focus on individual scenes, writing exercises and in-class discussion will inspire you to ask new questions of your play, look at it from various angles, and deconstruct it with...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Reading Wallace Stevens with Lisa Goldfarb

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

“Words are the only melodeon,” Stevens proclaims in his “Adagia,” a collection of aphorisms about the art of poetry. One of the 20th century’s great musical poets, Stevens invites us to think about his often playful, meditative, and philosophical poems in relation to music. In this course, we will explore Stevens’s work (early to late verse, from Harmonium to The Rock) with particular focus on his multiple musical aspects:...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
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$495

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Young Adult Fiction with Coe Booth

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Through discussions of student work, in-class writing exercises and required readings, we will work on creating compelling works of young adult fiction. The main areas of focus will be deepening your characterization and uncovering the emotional truth in your stories. We will also work to strengthen your dialogue, setting and structure. Please Note: Before the first class, please read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
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$400

6 sessions

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Writing for Late Night TV with Dave Hanson

Jeff Lawrence/Laughing Buddha Comedy @ 104 W 14th St, New York, NY

In this unique course you will explore the styles and structures of a writing packet and how that leads to a writing job. You will also learn to draw the curtain back and show what it takes to write for a late night daily or weekly television show, the variety of types of jobs within a writing staff and a show staff at large, how best to prepare yourself to apply for such jobs and how it all relates to the world of stand up comedy, sketch and improv....

(1) All levels 16 and older
No upcoming schedules
$295

4 sessions

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Novel Writing: Stephen Wright

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Hone your novel in this yearlong course, which offers extended sessions for intensive workshopping with Wright, author of Processed Cheese.

(1060) All levels 18 and older
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$445

7 sessions

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Elegy and Ode with David Yezzi

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Explore poetry’s divided duty—to celebrate, to commemorate—in this weekend intensive. Working from models by Elizabeth Bishop, John Keats, Pablo Neruda, Sappho and others, students will compose original poems and participate in group discussion. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which song underlies these age-old forms.

(1060) All levels 18 and older
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$400

2 sessions

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Meditative Writing Level 2: 1st Draft/Rewrite Intensive

Meditative Writing @ 39 W 29th St, New York, NY

Do you wish you could just lock yourself in a room and bang out a rewrite in one weekend? Okay, let's do it. Use Intervaled Story Structure-Guided Visual Meditation to step into your characters at the top of each scene.  Connect with the wants and needs of your character that build scene structure.  Last workshop the average writer got sixty pages written.  ​​Prerequisite:  Meditative Writing...

(5) All levels 18 and older
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$475

3 sessions

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Poetry with R.A. Villanueva

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote in a letter that he wanted his poetry to embody “more wreck and less discourse.”   Detour away from the well-worn routines of workshop in these dynamic sessions. Rather than laboring to finish or fix drafts, our sessions will be devoted to generative bursts, improvisational drafts, and provocative conversations about language, memory, and the future of what we create. We will seek to unsettle habits...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
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$400

6 sessions

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Fiction Studio Session

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

Interested in learning how to write fiction? An experienced fiction writer who wants to hone her craft? Want to take a writing class but not ready to workshop a story? An avid reader who wants to know how fiction is created? Newbies and long-term writers are welcome in this session to explore how authors use craft techniques to create exciting prose stories. Participants will complete at least two writing exercises—the first a warm-up writing...

(252) All levels 18 and older
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You Want to Write for Print? Sh*t You Gotta Know

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

Mike Sacks, Vanity Fair editor and author of four humor books, teaches a workshop on humor writing for print and how to get published.  Advanced purchase is mandatory.  Bonus:  Two of Mike's heralded books are on sale in the QED bookshop.

(252) All levels 18 and older
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Writing the Immigrant Story

The Writers Studio @ 272 W 10th St, New York, NY

Ours is a country of immigrants, united in the search for something better but uniquely formed by the culture and history from which we originated. Exiles and entrepreneurs, sojourners and refugees, immigrants straddle worlds old and new. In this six-week workshop for fiction and memoir writers, we will explore different approaches to writing the immigrant experience. What lens do we bring to bear on life-altering events? How do we...

(7) All levels 18 and older
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$325

6 sessions

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