Beginning Date: Open enrollment
Duration: 12 weeks
Tuition: $295

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Workshop Summary

The essence of plotting, the three act plot structure, the hook, conflict development, tension, plot points, pacing, building scenes and sequence structure, crisis and resolution. The role of flashbacks.

Workshop Topics

• Plot: A Definition
• Begin in the Middle
  
• Point of View
  
• Handling Exposition
  
• Middle Game & Subplots
  
• Plot Point & Set-Pieces
  
• Drama & Melodrama
  
• Holding the Plot Together
  
• Plot Rhythm
  
• End Game
  
• Zen Spoken Here

Required Reading

Plot by Ansen Dibell

Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Charles Osgood, Roger Angell

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Escaping into the Open : The Art of Writing True by Elizabeth Berg

A Writer's Tool Kit by Carroll Dale Short

Stein on Writing by Sol Stein

Creating Unforgettable Characters
by Linda Seger

Writing Dialogue by Tom Chiarella

Required Viewing

Cookie's Fortune
Information about the movie Cookie's Fortune can be found on the Internet Movie Database website at http://indie.imdb.com/Title?0126250

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