
SHARE YOUR JOURNEY
Writing Your Personal Story
An intensive one-day workshop sponsored by Guardian Masterclass, Kings Cross, London
Saturday, February 6, 2016
More info and registration:
http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/2015/nov/25/how-to-share-your-story-paul-sochaczewski-creative-writing-masterclass
Perhaps you’d like to write your personal story, but aren’t too sure how to start, how to focus, how to make it interesting for other people.
In this full day, intensive workshop I guarantee that by the end of the afternoon you will have begun to write your about your adventures.
How does that magic occur?
First, we’ll look at each person’s story, focusing on a critical scene or incident.
Then we’ll examine the Ten Writing Tips that will also give you the tools and confidence to write more effective blogs, write for online and print publications, and make more effective presentations.
Learn how to:
- Recognize the dynamics of your own hero’s journey
- Get started by writing just one scene
- Avoid the dreaded “info dump”
- Create instant intimacy with the reader
- Tell the story by following the Little Red Riding Hood Strategy
- Create conflict with the Nancy Reagan Principle
- Keep ’em hanging on with the Scheherazade Scenario
- Invoke the Story of One to represent the Story of Many
- Write like Steven Spielberg directs
- Eliminate fluff like Michelangelo
I use lots of cartoons, music, laughter, and exchange of ideas.
This workshop is a repeat of the successful workshop I ran for Guardian Masterclass early in 2015.
I’ve taken the tips and strategies in these workshops (which I’ve given in some 20 countries) and put them into book format: Share Your Journey: Mastering Personal Writing, published January 1, 2016.
Available on Amazon: Share Your Journey
One workshop review:
“With elegance, deep knowledge, and great generosity, Paul has taken me into story and catalyzed my own writing in a way I’d hoped for but was too scared really to expect. I’m thrilled I did this.” —Shelly from Australia
And a book review:
“Share Your Journey is to good writing as Joy of Cooking is to good food. I wish all my students had this book before taking my writing classes; hell, I wish I had this book earlier in my career. It’s smart, fun, and every page contains nuggets of essential advice.” —Gary Goshgarian, professor of creative writing, Northeastern University; writing as Gary Braver, bestselling author of Tunnel Vision
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