Read to Write Workshop
When: Saturday, Sept. 21, 2-6 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale, $85-150
To register: email michaelnoll1 at gmail.com
Have you ever started a story and stopped after three pages? Or quit a novel after 70 pages? Maybe you’ve worked at creating a character and never quite figured him or her out. Or you’ve got the character but not the plot. Perhaps dialogue is your demon. Or your chapters all begin in the morning, with the character waking up. Perhaps you can’t solve the problem of moving a character through time. These are common problems. Even great writers work at these challenges every day. So what do they know that you don’t? Find out in the Read to Write Workshop.
Whether you’re an experienced writer finishing out a collection or an aspiring beginner Googling “How to Write a Short Story,” this class will provide you with a wide range of tools and techniques to help you draft and revise your work.
Led by acclaimed writing instructor Michael Noll, the workshop will examine excerpts from four stories to discover writing strategies that you can apply to your own work.
Want a preview of the workshop? Check out these writing exercises at Michael’s website, readtowritestories.com. You can read a recap of a previous Writing Barn class here.
An afternoon working on the craft of fiction at The Writing Barn is the perfect way to find an ending to that story that’s been hanging out, waiting for you.
The class is inspired by Michael’s time as the writer-in-residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House, where he helped organize workshops and craft lessons by writers such as Ron Carlson, Percival Everett, Carole Maso, Tim O’Brien, William Vollman, and Francine Prose. Michael has taken the best aspects of each class and integrated them into a workshop method that that left one student writing, “I’ve been in lots of workshops, a few brief encouraging ones with Joy Williams and Robert Stone, and have worked one on one with a few good writers, but I’ve gotten more from this than any workshop I can remember.” Michael is a regular contributor to The Good Man Project.
For more information, email Michael at michaelnoll1@gmail.com.