Upcoming creative writing courses liz will be teaching
through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
Essential Beginnings (Online)
June 30 - August 4, 2010
Course Description:
Many aspire to write creatively, but few know how to get started. For those who wish to write for personal or professional satisfaction, this supportive online workshop provides many fundamental techniques--from journal writing to imaginative in-class exercises--all geared to motivate and cultivate the beginning creative writer. Topics include writing from observation and experience, creating dynamic characters, developing points of view, and writing dialogue. By the course's completion, students should have a series of short sketches or a draft of a story. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Writer as Witness to Life (Online)
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To sign up for liz's course: click here
Course Description:
"A writer's work is to witness things" states essayist Edward Hoagland. But how do you write creatively about events and experiences that are personal and important to you without getting too self-absorbed, sentimental, preachy, or narrow? Through in-class exercises, readings, discussion, creative journaling, and homework assignments, students learn to enhance their observation skills, find outward connections to their topic in order to engage readers, filter their topic through their personal truths, and write it artfully on a human, universal level. Some topics for witnessing are memories, the life or dying of a loved one, family history, socio-political or historical events, a specific time or place. (For writers of fiction and memoir.) Prerequisite: One previous beginning creative writing course. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
For more information contact the Writers' Program at (310) 825-9415 or (800) 388-8252 (outside California), or email writers@uclaextension.edu.
Or, if you have questions about the specific course, contact liz at beneathbone @ yahoo com