DescriptionFrom best selling author Natalie Goldberg ( Writing Down the Bones ), here is the story of her life as a spiritual seeker struggling to "free the writer within, " a vividly told odyssey that takes you from the 1950s schoolyards of Long Island to the h…
DescriptionGabriele Rico urges you to use the simple act of writing to discover who you are and what you think. She presents her widely-acclaimed "clustering" technique to get you started, then adds exercises to help you reveal your mind's patterns on the page. She'll also cover the science of chaos, patterns in chaos, randomness, and unpredictability as essential to the creative process, creativity as collaboration, risk-taking as a definition of creative human beings, using polarities to explore your mind, and much more.
DescriptionAn award-winning Chicano writer, Saenz examines the importance of language and who you are as a person to the voice you choose as a writer. "Assume people don't care; make them care with language, " he says. In this live workshop recording he explores how to aim for the emotional truth through fiction, how to analyze and control the choices writers make when putting words on paper, and how to use specific language to strive for clarity, mystery, and immediacy. He is the author of Calendar of Dust and Carry Me Like Water .
DescriptionAmerican Book Award-winning author Sandra Scofield will teach you the importance of knowing your underlying theme as you write. Learn how to find a one-sentence premise for your work and how to use that theme to make you write better and to make agents, editors, and readers take your work seriously. Critics consistently place Scofield's books among the outstanding works of literary fiction being crafted by a generation of American women writers. She is the author of Gringa, Beyond Deserving, and Opal on Dry Ground .
