Do You Want to be an Author or a Writer
Heritage Writers Guild, the Southern Utah Chapter of the League
of Utah Writers is sponsoring a Writing Boot Camp on May 18, 2013, from 8:00 am
to 5:30 pm.
~Keynote Speaker~
Jack Remick is a poet, short story writer and novelist. In 2012, Coffeetown Press published the first two volumes of Jack’s California Quartet series, The Deification and Valley Boy. The final two volumes will be released in 2013: The Book of Changes and Trio of Lost Souls. Blood, A Novel was published by Camel Press, an imprint of Coffeetown Press, in 2011. You can find Jack Remick online at http://bobandjackswritingblog.com/ or http://jackremick.com
Workshop 1: The Three S’s Story—Archetypes and core story: Myth base and story arc.
Stories are told with action and image
Archetypes: Dressing the Archetype— Time, Place.
Structure—Scene and Narration
Narration compresses time
Scene stops time
Scene and Plot tracks
Scene Structure
Scene template
Style— Image and Action
Breaking down the Paragraph
Verbs: Generic versus Style verbs
Nouns : Concrete versus Abstract Nouns
Workshop 2: Firsts and Lasts—Characters and Their Objects
The First time X appears, the next time X appears, the Last time X appears… List of Characters with associated objects.
One: Bring a one page passage from
your current Work in Progress. That's about 250-300 words. If you don't have a
work in progress, we'll provide an example from an anonymous source.
Two: There will be a writing exercise
based on a character or an object in the work in progress. If no work in
progress, we will develop one with in the workshop beginning with this
sequence:
I want to write a story
about;
I'm writing a story
about a character who wants;
I'm writing a scene
about this character in which she or he...
Here's an example from Gabriela and
The Widow of the First Time, The Next Time, The Last Time:
· The first time we see Gabriela, she
buys a real dress with blue and red flowers on it and she buys a pair of real
shoes with laces. What we don’t see is that she has no idea how to tie laces.
· Next we see Gabriela she is dressed
in Levis and a chambray shirt. She wears Nike running shoes like the shoes las
Norteñas wear when they came to the shop where she worked.
· The Last time we see Gabriela she is
dressed all in red. This is the Revenge scene back
in Tepenixtlahuaca.
Three: We will run a third exercise
using the work in progress or the provided page as a start. In this exercise
writers will list the characters in their WIP or the provided page, and they
will then associate each character with an emblematic object.
The thrust of this workshop is to
develop the notion of structure based on either character or an object.
Additional
training sessions by Heritage Writers Guild members include: Your Brain is a
Playground – Creative Thinking, by Barbara Funke; Shadowing – Developing Living
Characters, by Traci McDonald; and Making Stories Come to Life, by Jon
Thompson.
Registration fees include lunch:
LUW/HWG Members $30
Non-members $40
There is an early bird registration discount of $10 off the
LUW/HWG member, and Non-member fee for registering before April 20, 2013.
High/College Students $15 (with student ID) in advance or at
the door the day of the workshop
