WINTER QUARTER 2012 January 9th – April 1st 130 Writers’ Program Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Answering Your Muse: A Workshop Writing Your First Novel for Aspiring Creative Writers X 462.74 English 3 units X 485.35 English 3 units Do you have an almost desperate desire to write a novel Do you hear the muse calling, but aren’t sure how to (you know, that painful stirring in your solar plexus) or Writers’ Program answer? Do you feel the urge to put pen to paper (or are you just interested in telling your unique story in the fingers to keyboard), but aren’t sure where to start? In best way possible? No matter how you feel, there is a a safe and relaxing environment, this workshop pro- great sense of satisfaction in jump-starting your book 130 The Writers Studio vides a series of writing exercises to motivate and guide in a stimulating, supportive, and challenging environ- you to get writing, as well as to begin and start develop- ment. In this workshop, you learn about character, arc, 132 Creative Writing General Interest ing a substantial writing project. Whether your aim is to point of view, dialogue, plot, conflict, complications, 133 Creative Writing: Weekend Courses create poetry, complete a short story, begin a memoir, hooks, climax, resolution, language, setting, and the or even start conceptualizing a novel, this course “frees challenges of publishing and marketing your work. We 134 Fiction your pen” with techniques such as stream-of-con- not only get you started on the journey of finishing a 135 Creative Nonfiction sciousness writing, brainstorming, and quick outlining. novel, we also have lots of lively discussions, learn It helps you to work through writer’s block and teaches through lectures and close observation of each other’s 136 Poetry you methods for silencing your “inner critic.” And most work, create new bonds, and find out more about 136 Playwriting importantly, it inspires you to start writing. By the end ourselves and each other. Whether that aching feeling of 4 days, you will leave this workshop with a number is keeping your from writing or you just haven’t gotten 136 Publishing of new tools for your creative tool belt, as well as many around to doing it, you leave this workshop with a rough 136 Writing for the Youth Market pages of writing and a ton of inspiration. Enrollment first chapter and the inspiration and tools you need to limited to 18 students. Logistical information for this finish your book on your own. Prerequisite: At least 1 137 Online Creative Writing course will be provided via email. Please provide your previous creative writing course. Enrollment limited to email address when you register. All refund requests 18 students. Logistical information for this course will 140 Online Screenwriting must be received by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given be provided via email. Please provide your email 142 Screenwriting after that deadline date. address when you register. All refund requests must be received by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given after that 142 Business of Screenwriting Reg# W8633B Kim Krizan, Academy-Award nominated screenwriter, deadline date. 142 Feature Film Writing film and stage actor; WGA member who co-wrote Reg# W8630B Before Sunrise and Before Sunset with director Richard Francesca Lia Block, author of many bestselling and 144 Television Writing Linklater. Ms. Krizan has acted in several films, includ- award-winning novels, including Dangerous Angels: The 145 Intensive and Weekend Screenwriting Workshops ing Waking Life, Dazed and Confused, and Slacker. Her Weetzie Bat Books, Necklace of Kisses, Quakeland, The first full-length comic book, Zombie Tales: 2061, was Hanged Man, Echo, Pretty Dead, The Frenzy, and Wood recently published by Boom! Studios. Nymph Seeks Centaur: A Mythological Dating Guide. Ms. Block received the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime NEW COURSE Achievement Award and her latest adult novel has just Writing and Publishing Your Memoir been purchased by St. Martin’s Press. X 441.25 English 3 units Good memoirs don’t just happen—they’re designed. NEW COURSE Successful memoir writers consider their audience, drill Writing Scenes in Fiction down into their idea to see what is unique and arresting X 463.76 English 3 units about it, select the best structure for telling their tale, “I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell,” says set attainable writing goals and then devise impeccable Octavia Butler, and many of us feel exactly the same revision, marketing, and publishing strategies to see way. This workshop helps you deal with the essential their project through. This workshop teaches you the component of our stories: the scenes. Think of success- Studio Workshops 12 essential steps to writing and publishing memoir. It ful scenes as putting strong, lifelike characters in a Writers Studio at is intended for writers who are planning to complete a setting, with a clear motivation and stakes, and this book-length work. You develop a crystal clear descrip- simple formula is the exciting force behind both writing Choose only 1 of the following workshops. UCLA Extension tion of the book you want to write and the audience you and revising our work. In this workshop, you learn how hope to entice; an elevator pitch and a proper query to to construct scenes using the building blocks of narra- Thu-Sun, Feb 9-12 Inside Story: Creating Powerful generate interest in your story; a personalized roadmap tive, a skill which can apply to longer works of fiction Presented by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, Narratives for your entire writing process; concrete project goals; or creative nonfiction (such as novels or memoirs) or the Writers Studio at UCLA Extension consists of 10 X 462.75 English 3 units insight into the revision process; an outline of a book shorter stories. Through various exercises designed to intensive writing workshops. Participants choose Be it a novel, short story, or piece of creative nonfiction, proposal tailor-made to showcase your project; a short create new scenes or polish existing ones, and under- one of the 4-day intensive workshops offered in the secret to creating a narrative that leaps off the page list of suitable literary agents to pitch; and, finally, an standing how scenes work in selected readings, you and instantly grabs the reader lies in the story itself. In which they work closely with a professional writer/ understanding of the current state of publishing and hone your prose at this essential level. By the end of this workshop, you explore what a story really is; what, how you fit into it. Appropriate for students at any stage the course, you will have completed several scenes for instructor in classes limited to 18 people. Each as readers, we innately expect when we read one; and workshop is a 3-unit UCLA Extension course; par- of the memoir writing process. Prerequisite: At least 1 either a new or existing work, along with knowledge of how to translate the unique story you’re writing into the how a scene serves the work as a whole. Prerequisite: ticipants have the option of taking it for a grade. previous creative writing course. Enrollment limited to universal language of storytelling. Just as importantly, 18 students. Logistical information for this course will At least 1 previous creative writing course. Enrollment you have a yardstick to gauge whether each twist is on limited to 18 students. Logistical information for this Investment in Your Craft be provided via email. Please provide your email target or is a digression that brings your narrative to a address when you register. All refund requests must be course will be provided via email. Please provide your The fee for the Writers Studio is $705 until January screeching halt. In class you write, workshop, and refine received by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given after that email address when you register. All refund requests 9; after January 9, the fee increases to $775, so your concept and your protagonist’s quest, focusing on deadline date. must be received by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given enroll early and save! (Fee does not include lodging what your story is about and how to actualize it. You Reg# W8631B after that deadline date. or most meals.) A $30 administrative fee is with- leave the course with a clear roadmap of your story Jennie Nash, author of 3 memoirs, including Altared Reg# W8632B held from all refunds (full refund if workshop is from beginning to end, and a precise draft of those States: Surviving the Engagement and The Victoria’s Michael Buckley, MFA, fiction writer whose new short foundation-setting first several pages. Prerequisite: At canceled or rescheduled). Refund requests must be Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming and Other Lessons story collection is Miniature Men (World Parade Books, least 1 previous creative writing course. Enrollment postmarked or phoned in by Tueday, January 3. No I Learned from Breast Cancer, and the novel The Last 2011). Mr. Buckley’s work has appeared in Alaska limited to 18 students. Logistical information for this refunds are given after that date. Early enrollment Beach Bungalow (Berkley/Penguin, 2008). Ms. Nash’s Quarterly Review, Best American Non-Required Read- course will be provided via email. Please provide your is strongly advised. work has appeared in numerous publications, including ing, Southern California Review, Rip Rap, and Water- email address when you register. All refund requests Real Simple, GQ, and The New York Times. mark, among others. He is a co-founder and editor-in- For More Information must be received by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given chief of Transcurrent Literary Journal, and he has been To speak to an advisor and for updates and addi- after that deadline date.