For those of you able to spend four concentrated days this February on your writing, consider coming to UCLA Extension’s Writers Studio. Five screenwriting courses are being offered, (including three taught by my friends, Billy Mernit, Peter Dunn and Steve Mazur.) and five creative writing courses. (Amy Friedman is teaching a first level personal essay…
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The Courage & Craft Class
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Here’s the Courage & Craft gang (three class members missing)
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Your Six Week Writing Commitment: An Extra Week
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I’m going to Montana tomorrow to work on my novel and do research, so I’m not teaching my class at UCLA Extension this week. Which means extra time for you to work on your personal essay. Week Three and a new genre (memoir) will begin on October 23. I’m curious if anybody out there has…
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A Commitment: Six Weeks of Writing
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I started teaching my six week course, “Courage & Craft” at UCLA Extension today, and, as I wrote a few posts back, you’re invited to come along on this journey with my students and me. (Almost everybody acknowledged that they’d signed up for the course because of the word “courage” in the title.) The class…
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Dates for Your Calendar
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The annual UCLA Extension Writers Faire is Sunday, September 9th from 11:00 am to 3:00 on the UCLA campus. There are 24 mini-panels and lectures given by over 70 instructors who teach in the Writers’ Program. If you live near L.A. and you’re thinking of taking a writing course, this is a great way to…
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The Forest Not the Trees
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I’m teaching an advanced non-fiction class at UCLA Extension starting next week – the first time I’ve taught an intensive four hour workshop with only twelve students who have to submit their writing to qualify for admission. Here’s what I’ve already learned: I wanted to get excited about the writing samples that were submitted. I…
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Practicing: the wellness community workshop and 5 minute exercises
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We did writing exercises at the Wellness Community writing workshop last weekend that made me realize (again) that the practice of writing can yield amazing results. Like learning to play the piano, or laying…
