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. nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. tional information on the Writers Studio, call the Reg# W8626B Writers’ Program at (310) 825-9415 or email Lisa Cron, Partner, Michael Cron Literary Agency, [email protected]. representing a variety of fiction and nonfiction writers. Ms. Cron has been a consultant, agent, and story analyst for the Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency, the ­William Morris Agency, Warner Bros., Miramax, and Village Roadshow. She also has worked in publishing as an editor and publicist at W. W. Norton and John c UC credit; see page 149 Muir Publications. m Online course & Text required; see page 148 M Course held during daytime hours Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Writers’ Program 131

UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Presents Writers Studio 2012 4-Day Intensive Workshops in Screenwriting and Creative Writing Thu-Sun, Feb 9-12, Westwood: 1010 Westwood Center

What Is the Writers Studio? Writers Studio 2012 Workshops Writers Studio Fee Push aside the demands and dead- This year’s workshops offer a rich The $705 fee* includes: lines of daily life and dive into your variety of learning experiences. • Registration in one four-day writing at the Writers Studio. workshop Creative Writing During 4 intensive days, you learn Inside Story: • Continental breakfast on Thursday and write in a workshop equivalent morning to a regular 10-week Writers’ Creating Powerful Narratives Program course. with Lisa Cron • Complimentary coffee available throughout the day Select 1 workshop from a choice Answering Your Muse: A Workshop for of 10, each taught by a Writers’ Aspiring Creative Writers • Special guest on Saturday Program instructor who also is an with Kim Krizan • Sunday reception with light accomplished screenwriter, novelist, refreshments short fiction writer, editor, or Writing and Publishing Your Memoir ­creative nonfiction writer. with Jennie Nash Refund Policy Writing Your First Novel A $30 administrative fee is withheld with Francesca Lia Block from all refunds. Refund requests must be postmarked or phoned in by Writing Scenes in Fiction Jan 3, 2012. No refunds are available Writers Studio instructor Joel Thompson. with Michael Buckley after that date (full refund if work- shop is canceled, discontinued, or How to Enroll Screenwriting rescheduled). Online Writing Your First Screenplay * Fee is $775 after Jan 9. with Cindy Davis Hewitt Visit uclaextension.edu/writers for full information on the Writers Studio. Crafting the Comedy Screenplay Follow the links to complete your with Steve Mazur secure enrollment. Storytellers Wanted: Writing Video Phone Games Now Enrollment by phone is highly with Robert Bryant recommended as you will find out immediately which workshops Creating the 1-Hour Drama Spec are available. Call (310) 825-9971 Script’s Story and Outline and have your American Express, with Joel Thompson ­Discover, JCB, MasterCard, or Creating the Half-Hour Comedy Pilot VISA ready. Writers Studio instructor Cindy Davis Hewitt. with Julie and David Chambers For More Information about the Writers Studio instructor Michael Buckley. Writers Studio Pages 130 & 132. Call: (310) 825-9415 Email: [email protected] Visit: uclaextension.edu/writers

Praise from Last Year’s Participants Other Requirements “ The Writers Studio helped me ignore my inner critic and focus on exercises to facilitate brainstorming Attendees will be emailed detailed and concept implementation.” logistical information beginning in —Brian Duke, Manhattan Beach, California November. Please provide your email “ It was fun to have the face to face interaction with people interested in things I am interested in. I have address when you register. taken some of the online classes, which are great (and very convenient, since I live about 200 miles away), but there is a different energy to being in the classroom.” —Heidi Clark, Tulare, California “ The Studio class helped me find direction in my work and introduced me to a host of other people doing the same thing. I left with a clear idea of where I wanted to take my project which I’m now on the way to completing.” —David Tedesco, Hermosa Beach, California 132 Writers’ Program Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 New Course New Course Creating the Half-Hour Comedy Pilot Reg# W8864B Writing Your First Screenplay Storytellers Wanted: Writing Video X 430.41 Film & Television 3 units Through Dec 11: $309 / After: $339 X 433.25 Film & Television 3 units Today, you need that original pilot script in your portfolio UCLA: 1264 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Games Now Wed 7-10pm, Jan 11-Feb 15, 6 mtgs Learning to write a screenplay is a process, and to do X 433.55 Film & Television 3 units to break into the business of writing television comedy. Judith Prager, PhD, writer whose novels include The it well can take years of practice. This workshop gives Story fuels today’s hit games. Players want great nar- In this lively workshop, discover the ingredients you Newman Factor and Black Water. Dr. Prager’s nonfiction you 2 tried-and-true ways for making a lot of progress rative set in vivid new worlds chock-full of memorable need to create great sitcoms, learn contemporary includes Verbal First Aid: Help Kids Heal From Pain and in a short period of time: 1) learn how to write a strong characters they can engage with, and the field needs techniques to give comic conventions a fresh feel, and Fear—and Come out Strong (Penguin Berkley), The outline and 2) get lots of personalized feedback on your writers who can deliver that. Over 4 information-packed then set about turning your pilot concept into a show Worst Is Over: What to Say When Every Moment Counts work. Through a series of writing exercises and assign- days, learn what narrative designers (a.k.a. video game that has the “legs” to last 5 years. In a professional (Jodere Group), and Journey to Alternity. She was the ments, you are guided toward mastering the basics of writers) do, and how they use game mechanics to writing room atmosphere, find and select the ideas to co-recipient of the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instruc- screenwriting, especially the all-important screenplay engage players’ emotions, and pull them ever-deeper build that outline and unearth the unique ingredients tor Award in Creative Writing, 2004. structure, and also explore scene development, char- into the game story and game world. You learn how to you bring to the mix: your own comic sensibility, your Harry Youtt, fiction writer and Pushcart Prize-nomi- acterization, and dialogue. You boil down your story into generate a winning concept, develop your characters, experience, your creative inspiration, your cousin who nated poet whose recent collections of poetry include a 1-sentence logline, and then grow it into a full- integrate gameplay into your story, and discover exactly runs the network. Okay, not everyone has a useful I’ll Always Be from Lorain, Even the Autumn Leaves, fledged outline for a feature length script. With this what elements generate critical and commercial heat. cousin, but you will leave the workshop with a solid and Outbound for Elsewhere. Mr. Youtt is on the editorial solid, entertaining outline in hand, you leave the course By the end of the workshop, you have in hand an 8-10- outline and encouragement to write the script that board of the international Journal of Consciousness, ready to conceptualize and begin work on your own page treatment, called a game concept document, might be your ticket into the business of writing com- Literature and the Arts and was the co-recipient of the script beyond the classroom. No prior screenwriting which breaks your story down level by level and serves edy. Prerequisite: At least 1 television or screenwriting UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in experience necessary. Course may be taken as a cer- as the blueprint for your very own game pitch. In addi- course. Course may be taken as a certificate elective. ­Creative Writing, 2004. tificate core requirement. Enrollment limited to 18 tion to aspiring video game writers, this course is of Enrollment limited to 18 students. Logistical information students. Logistical information for this course will be great value to game developers who want to learn the for this course will be provided via email. Please provide Reg# W9272B provided via email. Please provide your email address traditions of character arcs and 3-act structure. Course your email address when you register. All refund Through Jan 23: $309 / After: $339 when you register. All refund requests must be received may be taken as a certificate elective. Enrollment lim- requests must be received by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds Westwood: 415 1010 Westwood Center by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given after that date. ited to 18 students. Logistical information for this are given after that date. ✷✷Thu 10am-1pm, Feb 23-Mar 29, 6 mtgs Reg# W8627B course will be provided via email. Please provide your Reg# W8618B Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, author and editor of 12 Cindy Davis Hewitt, MFA, screenwriter; WGA member email address when you register. All refund requests Julie Chambers, writer; WGA member whose credits books, including Vigan and Other Stories, A La Carte: whose feature film credits include the English-language must be received by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given include a Writers Guild Award-nominated episode of Food and Fiction (Anvil), and When the Rainbow God- screenplay for Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film after that date. The Simpsons. Ms. Chambers also has written episodes dess Wept, Magdalena (Plain View Press). Ms. Brainard has received numerous awards, including a California Spirited Away, as well as My Neighbor Totoro, and Howl’s Reg# W8629B for Becker; The Buzz on Maggie; and the Showtime Arts Council Fellowship and Brody Arts Fund Award, and Moving Castle. Ms. Hewitt has written for Pixar, Working Robert Bryant, MFA, video game creative executive movie The Princess and the Barrio Boy. She recently her work has been translated into Turkish and Finnish. Title, Miramax, and Disney. She currently is writing the who has worked on dozens of game projects on plat- worked with Mel Brooks on an animated series based animated feature film Pigeon: Impossible for Fox. forms ranging from PC/toy hybrids to home consoles to on his movie Spaceballs and is a published children’s iPhone and iPad. Mr. Bryant was studio director at book author. Fiction for Absolute Beginners Crafting the Comedy Screenplay Crave Entertainment, where he executive produced David Chambers, writer and producer; WGA member; X 448.4 English 2 units X 430.4AI Film & Television 3 units World Championship Poker, Future Tactics: The Upris- who has worked on more than a dozen prime-time This course offers you the chance to get your feet wet This workshop employs a logical and easy-to-follow ing, and Pinball Hall of Fame. He is a co-author of Game network television shows. Mr. Chambers is an Emmy by learning the basic elements of story, characters, approach to crafting comedy screenplays from original Testing All in One (Thomson Course Technology). Award nominee for his work on The Wonder Years and conflict, point-of-view, and dialogue. Every week, you premise to final draft, with an emphasis on structure. Frank’s Place, winner of a Humanitas Award, and his write a short piece, culminating in a 3-5-page story to Using student premises, we analyze character and plot New Course episode of The Simpsons was nominated recently for a be presented at the final 2 classes. Enrollment limited development, the construction of sequences and Writers Guild Award. He recently worked on 2 History to 20 students. Internet access required to retrieve Creating the 1-Hour Drama Spec Channel specials featuring comedian Lewis Black. course materials. scenes, and methods of mining comedy from the Script’s Story and Outline characters and story. The instructor also provides Reg# W8865B X 433.45 Film & Television 3 units Through Jan 22: $309 / After: $339 practical tips to help simplify and streamline the writing Network and cable 1-hour dramas have never been process. The goal is to complete an outline based on UCLA: 1264 School of Public Affairs Bldg. better, and the key to creating a strong hour-long spec Wed 7-10pm, Feb 22-Mar 28, 6 mtgs your concept for a full-length comedy screenplay, with script—regardless of the genre or outlet—is an airtight Creative Writing enough detail to begin to write your first draft. Students Judith Prager, for credits see this page. story and outline. In this workshop, you learn how to Harry Youtt, for credits see this page. should watch the film Big prior to the workshop and select the best story for your spec script, map it out For advisement on on-site creative writing should bring to class a 1-or-2-line original story con- from beginning to end, and write a properly formatted courses, call Sara Bond at (310) 825-9416 or cept that they are ready to develop. Course may be outline. In addition, you learn how to identify and cap- Mae Respicio at (310) 206-0951. Many cre- taken as a certificate elective. Enrollment limited to 18 ture the tone, characters, dialogue, and themes of any ative writing courses also are offered online; General Interest: Special students. Logistical information for this course will be 1-hour drama series. And because a writer’s success see page 137. Subjects and Themes provided via email. Please provide your email address also hinges upon longevity and outlook, you gain tips when you register. All refund requests must be received for tackling writer’s block, surviving rejection, and by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given after that date. Courses in this section are open to students conducting yourself in a professional TV writers’ room. General Interest: Beginning of all levels of writing experience who want to Reg# W8614B You leave the workshop with a viable story and a logi- focus on a specific area of study. These , screenwriter; WGA member whose and Novice Writers Stephen Mazur cally-detailed outline in hand, and are ready to write courses may be used to fulfill Creative Writing credits include co-writing the feature films Liar, Liar; your first draft as quickly and expertly as possible. The Little Rascals; and Heartbreakers. Mr. Mazur also These basic creative writing courses are for certificate requirements; contact your advisor Prerequisite: Previous course in television or screen- for details. wrote the teleplays The Crooked E: The Unshredded writing; all student projects must focus on shows cur- students with no prior writing experience, and Truth about Enron for CBS and Wedding March for A&E. provide the best foundation to go forward in rently on-air; no pilots. Course may be taken as a The Writer’s Workout: He is the recipient of the UCLA Extension Outstanding certificate core requirement. Enrollment limited to 18 their writing. Instruction is exercise-driven; Instructor Award in Screenwriting, 2005. students. Logistical information for this course will be the process of “workshopping” is introduced, Techniques for Stronger Writing provided via email. Please provide your email address where students are asked to share and offer X 446.15 English 2.5 units when you register. All refund requests must be received feedback on each others’ work with guidance Much in the way artists take life-drawing classes to grow by Tue, Jan 3; no refunds are given after that date. from the instructor. and keep in form, this course is designed to get you writing quickly and intensively in either fiction or memoir Reg# W8628B The Essential Beginnings: forms. The first half of the course leads you through a Joel Thompson, MFA, television writer; WGA member, series of exercises and covers narrative design—starting whose writing credits include House, MD; Boomtown; An Introductory Creative with scene design—to remind veteran writers of certain Battlestar Galactica; and the upcoming Dreamworks Writing Workshop basics and to give insight to newer writers. The second television project Falling Skies. Mr. Thompson is a for- X 401A English 2 units half of the course becomes a workshop where you write mer story analyst for Icon Pictures, Village Roadshow, Many aspire to write creatively, but few know how to get a scene and 2 short stories or personal essays. The class and John Wells Productions. He has also sold pitches started. A supportive workshop for those who wish to provides an honest yet supportive forum for your work as to various networks, including CBS, HBO Films, and write for personal or professional satisfaction, this course you learn to express ideas and emotions with greater Stage 9 Productions (Disney). provides many fundamental techniques—from journal clarity. You read, critique, and write, write, write. Enroll- writing to imaginative in-class exercises—all geared to ment limited to 20 students. Internet access required to motivate and cultivate the beginning creative writer. Top- retrieve course materials. ics include writing from observation and experience, creating dynamic characters, writing dialogue, and how kkk to write from different points of view. The course goal is to have in hand a series of short sketches or a draft of a story. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet access required to retrieve course materials. kkk Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Writers’ Program 133

Reg# W8866B New Course Through Dec 23: $365 / After: $399 Submitting to Los Angeles UCLA: 1256 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Mon 7-10pm, Jan 23-Mar 19, 8 mtgs Literary Journals X 415.2 English 3 units Don’t Just Take (no mtg 2/20) This workshop has 2 main goals—both of which center Christopher Meeks, MFA, writer whose work has on teaching you how to prepare and successfully appeared in The Santa Barbara Review, The Southern submit a piece of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry Our Word for It! California Anthology, The Clackamas Literary Review, to a major Los Angeles literary journal. First, you hone Rosebud, and Writers’ Forum. Mr. Meeks’s latest novel your work to publishable standards under the guidance “The Writers Studio is a unique opportunity is The Brightest Moon of the Century (2009). His short of the founder and editor of the new L.A.-based journal to have an intense creative experience. story collections are Months and Seasons, which was The Rattling Wall. Second, you read strategically Immersing myself in writing for such a on the long list for the Frank O’Connor Award, and The selected excerpts from Santa Monica Review, SLAKE, Middle-Aged Man and the Sea. concentrated period of time helped me to Rattle, The Rattling Wall, and Black Clock, among oth- focus and expand my skills with none of ers, to understand the specific tastes of these journals’ Discovering the Treasures Within: editors. This knowledge not only provides you with an the usual distractions.” A Writing Workshop edge as you learn how to pinpoint the best places to —Phyllis Berger, Los Angeles, CA X 403.3 English 2.5 units send your work, but it also maximizes the value you 2011 Writers Studio Participant As writers, we are told that our inner lives hold hidden derive from a unique feature of this course: the chance treasures, gems of personal experience that provide our to meet many of these editors in person when they truest and most natural subject matter. But how do we attend class for Q&A sessions. During the last 2 weeks, 2012 Writers Studio “write what we know”—or even get at what we know? you finalize your submission, and learn how to use the Thu-Sun, Feb 9-12 In a supportive and positive atmosphere, this challenge Writer’s Market guides, find reputable online resources, is met through writing “prompts” which provide access organize a simultaneous submission, and write a cover For more information, see pages 130-132. to what you know as a “felt” rather than cognitive letter. By the end of the course, you have in-hand a memory. In-class exercises explore characters who polished piece and a game plan for submitting it to a loom in your life, places which are the “home of your specific L.A. journal. Enrollment limited to 20 students. heart,” and objects which tell a story about who you Internet access required to retrieve course materials. Phyllis Berger. are. Learn to trust your first instinct and write freely Reg# W9283B before the spectre of what’s “right,” “good,” or Through Dec 25: $419 / After: $459 “expected” has a chance to control the results. By the UCLA: 1278 School of Public Affairs Bldg. end of the workshop, you have a collection of pieces Find Your Comic Voice(s)! Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs Creative Writing: drawn from and transformed by the treasures of your X 443.96 English 3 units No refund after Feb 1. inner life. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet Everybody’s a writer: in email, blogs, comments on Weekend Courses Michelle Meyering, MFA, founder and editor of the Los access required to retrieve course materials. blogs, websites, job apps, dating site profiles, etc. While Angeles-based literary journal, The Rattling Wall. Ms. it’s nice to “express yourself,” it’s nicer to be able to be Reg# W8867B Meyering also was editor of the literary publication, 2-Day Through Dec 24: $365 / After: $399 amusing—and nicer still to do it in a range of styles. In Folio, and her poetry has appeared in numerous jour- this course, you explore a variety of comic voices and Westwood: 320 1010 Westwood Center nals, including The Comstock Review and The Eleventh How to Write a Million-Dollar ✷✷Tue 10am-1pm, Jan 24-Mar 13, 8 mtgs styles—both through reading past and present masters Muse. She currently is Director of Programs and Events and experimenting with your own writing—all in an Proposal: A 2-Saturday Workshop Stephanie Waxman, writer and author of the short for PEN Center USA. X 460.95 English 1.5 units story collection Sex and Death. Ms. Waxman’s stories effort to make yourself, and others, laugh. You review such key comedic genres as satire and parody, and also Whether you’re in the midst of penning a personal have appeared in Missouri Review, Oregon East, Merid- Creating the 21st Century Detective narrative, a how-to, or a treatise on your area of exper- ian, RE:AL, The Distillery, The Bitter Oleander Press, talk about why a semi-colon can be funnier than a X 494.50 English 2.5 units period, the importance of rhythm, and how not to abuse tise, you need a book proposal to get in the door at any West, and New Sudden Fiction. Her novel, Divided From Raymond Chandler’s anti-hero Phillip Marlowe to traditional publisher. This 2-day interactive workshop Loyalties, was published by Marco Press. italics. But mainly you delve into the comic approach: Charlaine Harris’s vampire-loving waitress Sookie Stack- how to select a voice for a given effect (including that puts you with one of the industry’s professional insiders house to Sue Grafton’s wisecracking and downright wise who’s never written a proposal that hasn’t sold—and The Art of Creating Compelling of a first-person essayist, i.e. a voice that is “you” and Kinsey Milhone, the key to America’s best detective fic- parodies no one). You also learn how to find a funny for big bucks—and gives you everything you need to Characters from the Inside Out tion is powerful and engaging heroes. This workshop angle on a given topic, how to cut, and the differences know to take your idea to the next level, including the X 448.36 English 3 units focuses on creating a current and one-of-a-kind protago- (if any) between the comic writing of men and women. 7-step magic formula to crafting winning proposals; Fascinating, believable characters are the backbone of nist through the use of plot, setting, action, dialogue, The course goal is to become familiar with a range of what agents respond to and what you need to approach any story. Designed for those who want to learn how to diction, and complementary and contrasting secondary comic voices and to learn to make use of their tricks, them; a peek into million-dollar proposals by first-time craft multi-dimensional characters that captivate and characters. Your goal is to get started and/or make devices, and principles for your own writing. Enrollment authors; the how-tos of building a provocative table of resonate deeply with readers, this course shows you headway on a novel in which you create—or refine, if you limited to 20 students. Internet access required to contents and creating the right “architecture” for a book how to tap into the emotional truths of your characters have a work-in-progress—a detective who is compelling retrieve course materials. that keeps readers wanting more; the secrets to selling and find the courage to take them on a journey that any enough to be the driving force of the novel (or series of yourself and developing a compelling marketing plan; Reg# W8869B reader would find compelling. Through in-class exer- novels), and, in the process, uncover that character’s and whether or not independent (self) publishing is the Through Dec 26: $419 / After: $459 cises and provocative discussion, you learn how to unique voice. Classes include lectures, discussions, tar- way to go for you. By the end of the course, you under- UCLA: 1270 School of Public Affairs Bldg. create character obstacles, transformations, and tri- geted writing exercises, and personal feedback. Publica- stand the inner workings of the publishing industry and Thu 7-10pm, Jan 26-Mar 29, 10 mtgs umphs and to develop skills that allow you to get the tion markets for mystery fiction and agents also are know exactly where your potential stands, with all of No refund after Feb 2. critic off your shoulder and let your characters speak, discussed. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet the materials you need in draft form to move forward. Ellis Weiner, writer who has published pieces in The act, kiss, or kill without author intervention. Students access required to retrieve course materials. For some, this means polishing your perfect pitch pack- New Yorker, The Paris Review, Mademoiselle, New York are encouraged to bring in their own pages to read on age and submitting it to an agent or publisher; for Reg# W8871B Times Magazine, Smithsonian, and Spy, among many a weekly basis. Home assignments are given to those others, this entails positioning yourself to self-publish Through Dec 25: $365 / After: $399 others. Mr. Weiner is author and co-author of over 20 who need a jump-start. The ultimate class goal is to successfully. Advance enrollment required; no enroll- UCLA: 1343 School of Public Affairs Bldg. books, including The Joy of Worry (Chronicle Books), have the beginnings of a character-driven story or a ment at the door. Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 14, 8 mtgs and Drop Dead, My Lovely (NAL). He is a former editor strong first chapter or draft of a short story. Enrollment Jerrilyn Farmer, bestselling author of the Madeline Reg# W9273B limited to 20 students. Internet access required to for National Lampoon and his latest book is The Big Bean mystery series who has received multiple national Jewish Book for Jews (Plume). Through Feb 10: $255 / After: $275 retrieve course materials. mystery awards, including the Macavity and Lefty UCLA: 1270 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Reg# W8868B Awards, and nominations for many others, including the ✷✷Sat 9:30am-4:30pm, Mar 10 & 17, 2 mtgs Through Dec 24: $419 / After: $459 Mary Higgins Clark/MWA Award. Ms. Farmer’s latest Kristin Loberg, New York Times bestselling writer and UCLA: 2317 School of Public Affairs Bldg. book, co-written with Joan Rivers, is Murder at the editor specializing in proposals and book collaboration. Tue 7-10pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs Academy Awards. Ms. Loberg’s titles include Payback Time (Crown), Mom No refund after Jan 31. Energy (Hay House), The Fiber35 Diet (Free Press), The Linzi Glass, author of the award-winning novel The Water Secret (Wiley), No Matter What (Grand Central), Year the Gypsies Came (Henry Holt, 2006), which was The Vitamin D Solution (Hudson Street Press), and The nominated for the U.K. Carnegie Medal in Literature and End of Illness (Free Press), among numerous others. voted one of the best books for young adults by the She also has ghostwritten almost 50 books. ALA. Ms. Glass’s second novel, Ruby Red, was short- listed for the Carnegie Medal in Literature, and her third novel, Finding Danny, was published by Harper Collins/ Walden Pond Press (2010). 134 Writers’ Program Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Novel Writing I: chapters of a novel or memoir, essays, or poems. Novel Writing II: Writing a Novel Fiction I Writing the First Novel Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet access the Professional Way Workshop X 462.71 English 3 units required to retrieve course materials. X 446.7A English 3 units Courses in this section are recommended for That novel is inside you waiting to emerge, but knowing Reg# W8870B This workshop helps you develop your long-form fiction students with some writing experience. how and where to start can be daunting. This course Through Dec 25: $419 / After: $459 project from the idea stage to the writing/planning stage. Instruction is a mix of lecture and workshop- provides you with weekly assignments, group interac- UCLA: 3112 Rolfe Hall With an emphasis on finding your book through exploring ping. Students continue to share and offer tion, and instructor feedback to help you explore various Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs voice, viewpoint, characterization, and different feedback in a frank and supportive environ- methods of writing your first novel while learning the No refund after Feb 1. approaches to structure, course assignments include ment, assessing the strengths and weaknesses key craft points of plot, structure, point-of-view, sense Les Plesko, fiction writer and author of the novel Slow writing scenes using characters and situations from the of students’ work. Those new to writing might of place, and voice. The goal is to complete the first Lie Detector (Equator Books). Mr. Plesko’s novel The projected novel and discussion of your in-progress work. consider courses listed under General Interest: chapter of your novel by establishing an intimacy with Last Bongo Sunset (Simon & Schuster) was critically Mini-lectures on the art of the novel, intuitive creative Beginning and Novice Writers. your characters as you artfully shape their journey, and acclaimed by The New Yorker and The New York Times process, and conventional vs. non-conventional to develop an overall concept to guide you through your and translated into Dutch and German, and his stories approaches to novel structure also are covered. Your goal Introduction to Fiction Writing story. Required for students considering the long-fiction appear in Zyzzyva and Pear Noir! He was the recipient is to complete 50 well-crafted pages of a novel. Prereq- X 403A English 3 units sequence. Prerequisite: X 403A Introduction to Fiction of the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in uisite: X 403A Introduction to Fiction Writing and It has been said that all of us have locked inside At least Writing or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Enroll- Creative Writing, 2002. X 462.71 Writing the First Novel, or equivalent, or 1 good story to tell. Through lectures on craft, short ment limited to 15 students. Internet access required departmental approval. Enrollment limited to 15 students. writing exercises, assignments, and discussion of your to retrieve course materials. Creating the 21st Century Detective Internet access required to retrieve course materials. work, you learn how to tell yours. Topics include plot, Reg# W9274B X 494.50 English 2.5 units Reg# W8682B point-of-view, setting, description, conflict, characteriza- Through Dec 17: $525 / After: $575 From Raymond Chandler’s anti-hero Phillip Marlowe to Through Dec 25: $525 / After: $575 tion, dialogue, tension, rewriting, and submission Westwood: 416 1010 Westwood Center Charlaine Harris’s vampire-loving waitress Sookie Stack- UCLA: 2288 Franz Hall strategies. This course focuses on short fiction but ✷✷Tue 11am-2pm, Jan 17-Mar 20, 10 mtgs house to Sue Grafton’s wisecracking and downright wise Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs includes principles that students use in X 462.71 Novel No refund after Jan 24. Kinsey Milhone, the key to America’s best detective fic- No refund after Feb 1. Writing I: Writing the First Novel. The course goal is to Francesca Lia Block, author of many bestselling and tion is powerful and engaging heroes. This workshop Linda Palmer, author of 8 mystery novels, including draft one short story or a chapter of a novel. This award-winning novels, including Dangerous Angels: The focuses on creating a current and one-of-a-kind protago- Killer Mousse, Death Takes the Cake, The Proof Is in course is a prerequisite for students who are continuing Weetzie Bat Books, Necklace of Kisses, Quakeland, The nist through the use of plot, setting, action, dialogue, the Pudding (2010), and Pie à la Murder (2011), written in either the short- or long-fiction sequence. Enrollment Hanged Man, Echo, Pretty Dead, The Frenzy, and Wood diction, and complementary and contrasting secondary under the pen name Melinda Wells. A former screen- limited to 20 students. Internet access required to Nymph Seeks Centaur: A Mythological Dating Guide. characters. Your goal is to get started and/or make writer and studio executive, Ms. Palmer has received retrieve course materials. & Ms. Block received the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime headway on a novel in which you create—or refine, if you the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Awards in have a work-in-progress—a detective who is compelling Reg# W8678B Achievement Award and her latest adult novel, a Creative Writing, 2010, and in Screenwriting, 1995. enough to be the driving force of the novel (or series of Through Dec 24: $419 / After: $459 ­psychological fantasy/murder mystery, has just been Westwood: 413 1010 Westwood Center purchased by St. Martin’s Press. novels), and, in the process, uncover that character’s Novel Writing III: ✷✷Tue 10am-1pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs Reg# W8680B unique voice. Classes include lectures, discussions, tar- Writing a Novel the Professional Way No refund after Jan 31. Through Dec 26: $525 / After: $575 geted writing exercises, and personal feedback. Publica- tion markets for mystery fiction and agents also are Works-in-Progress Workshop Colette Sartor, MFA, fiction writer whose work has UCLA: A06 Haines Hall X 446.7B English 3 units discussed. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Chicago Tribune, Thu 7-10pm, Jan 26-Mar 29, 10 mtgs For those with at least 50 pages of a novel-in-progress, access required to retrieve course materials. Los Angeles Times, Colorado Review, and Harvard No refund after Feb 2. this workshop guides you to generate at least 50 new Review. Ms. Sartor has won a Fugue Prose Award, a Stefan Kiesbye, MFA, fiction writer and author of the Reg# W8871B pages as well as learn essential self-editing techniques, Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, a Glenna Luschei novel Next Door Lived a Girl, which has been translated Through Dec 25: $365 / After: $399 with the instructor and peers reviewing each partici- Prairie Schooner Award, an honorable mention in Best into several languages. Mr. Kiesbye’s new novel, Your UCLA: 1343 School of Public Affairs Bldg. pant’s project in detail. Refinements of character, American Short Stories 2009, and a Truman Capote House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone, is forthcoming Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 14, 8 mtgs structure, emotional content, and the development of fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. in 2012. His work has been published in Hobart, Jerrilyn Farmer, for credits see page 133. the writer’s voice also are explored. The goal is to Reg# W8689B ­Dogzplot, The St. Petersburg Review, and the anthology produce a substantial portion of a novel approaching Through Dec 26: $419 / After: $459 The Art of Friction. professional caliber. Prerequisite: X 462.71 Novel Writ- UCLA: 2325 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Fiction II ing I: Writing the First Novel and X 446.7A Novel Writing Thu 7-10pm, Jan 26-Mar 29, 10 mtgs Creative Writing: Short Story II: Writing a Novel the Professional Way Workshop, or No refund after Feb 2. XL 134A English 5 units c These intermediate-level courses are equivalent, or departmental approval. Enrollment limited Marisa Matarazzo, MFA, fiction writer whose first Available for UCLA transferable credit, this workshop designed for students who have fulfilled the to 15 students. Internet access required to retrieve book, Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums, covers the key elements of fiction writing, including plot, prerequisites stated in each description. course materials. was published by Soft Skull Press in February 2010, characterization, setting, point-of-view, and various story Instruction is a mix of lecture and workshop- Reg# W8872B and whose stories have appeared in Hobart, Faultline, development techniques, as well as publication markets. ping. Students continue to share and offer Through Dec 24: $525 / After: $575 and FiveChapters. A graduate of the UC Irvine Writer’s Your goal is to complete or rewrite 3 stories of average feedback in a frank and supportive environ- UCLA: 3112 Rolfe Hall Program, Ms. Matarazzo is the recipient of several length. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet ment, assessing the strengths and weak- Tue 7-10pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs awards and fellowships, including the Wallace Prize, the access required to retrieve course materials. & nesses of students’ work. No refund after Jan 31. Elmore A. Willets Prize, and the Strauss Fellowship. Reg# W8679B Les Plesko, for credits see this page. Through Dec 10: $535 / After: $589 Writing the Short Story: Introduction to Fiction Writing: Westwood: 211 Extension Lindbrook Center Intermediate Workshop A Limited-Enrollment Workshop Tue 6:30-9:30pm, Jan 10-Mar 27, 12 mtgs X 461 English 3 units X 403AL English 3 units No refund after Jan 17. Focusing on close textual analysis and intensive writing Limited to 15 highly motivated students committed to Stephen Cooper, PhD, MFA, NEA Fellow whose short practice, you create 2 short stories and 1 revision in this the intensive study of writing fiction, this workshop stories have appeared in Watershed, .Cent, American 10-week workshop. Brief weekly lectures on technique, covers the key elements of the genre, including plot, Fiction, Hot Type, and The Threepenny Review, among analysis of published stories, and in-depth instructor and Are You characterization, setting, point-of-view, and various other publications. A professor of English at Cal State peer critique develop and deepen your understanding of story development techniques, as well as publication Long Beach, Dr. Cooper is the author of Full of Life: A the art and craft of short story writing. Strategies for Eligible for a markets. The goal is to complete one short story and Biography of John Fante and editor of The John Fante approaching the marketplace also are discussed. Pre- have a second one well underway. This course is a Reader, both included among the Los Angeles Times requisite: At least 2 fiction writing courses or depart- prerequisite for students who are continuing in either Best Books of the Year. mental approval. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Lifetime Learning the short- or long-fiction sequence. Enrollment limited Internet access required to retrieve course materials. to 15 students. Internet access required to retrieve Tricks and Treats: New Approaches to Reg# W8681B Tax Credit? course materials. Non-Linear Writing Through Dec 19: $525 / After: $575 Reg# W8688B X 451.90 English 3 units UCLA: 3112 Rolfe Hall You may be eligible to receive Through Dec 25: $525 / After: $575 Many writers today are using new experimental forms Thu 7-10pm, Jan 19-Mar 22, 10 mtgs a 20-percent tax credit for the Downtown Los Angeles: 261 S. Figueroa St., as well as innovative approaches practiced throughout No refund after Jan 26. first $10,000 of tuition paid for Figueroa Courtyard, Suite 100W, the history of the art which are now making a come- Steve Sohmer, PhD, MA, writer whose collection, The post-secondary academic credit back. In this workshop, you engage in applying a variety Classroom 109 Way It Was, was chosen by The New York Times as one or CEU-bearing course leading Wed 6:30-9:30pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs of techniques and resources amenable to all genres of the 20 best fiction books of the year. Mr. Sohmer’s No refund after Feb 1. and use them to create and invigorate stories, novels, short fiction has been published in The Southern to the award of a certificate. creative nonfiction, or poetry. For example, you explore Noel Alumit, author of the novels Letters to Montgomery Review and Modern Occasions and his novels are For more information see Clift and Talking to the Moon. Mr. Alumit’s work has the creative possibilities of using bricolage, stream of Favorite Son and Patriots. His screenwriting credits been published in USAToday, The Advocate, and The consciousness, visualization, and metered poetic forms. include Mancuso FBI, Twice in a Lifetime, Bloodknot, page 150. Huffington Post, and his awards include the Stonewall You also experiment with cut-up techniques culled from and Tom Clancy’s Op Center, among others. Book Award (American Library Association), Violet Quill non-traditional sources, such as “found” documents, Award, and James Duggins Mid-Career Prize. His work lists, manifests and manifestoes, critical and science has made the finalist lists for the PEN Literary Award writing, etymologies, indexes and reference works, and the Lambda Literary Award. photos and film, interactive media, and sound record- ings. The goal is to deploy these exciting, innovative resources toward the completion of short stories, Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Writers’ Program 135

Reg# W8691B Fiction III Fee: $605 Creative Nonfiction I Creative Nonfiction II UCLA: 166 Royce Hall A manuscript submission is required for these Wed 7-10pm, Jan 18-Mar 28, 10 mtgs Courses in this section are recommended for Intermediate Creative Nonfiction advanced-level workshops. It is recommended (no mtg 2/29) students with some writing experience. X 401.49 English 3 units that students take courses at the Fiction II No refund after Jan 11. Instruction is a mix of lecture and workshop- If you have already begun to explore memoir or other level prior to submitting samples. At this level, Edan Lepucki, MFA, fiction writer whose work has ping. With guidance from the instructor, stu- narrative nonfiction genres, this workshop guides you courses are primarily workshop-driven. appeared in McSweeny’s, Los Angeles Times Magazine, dents share and offer feedback in a frank and to take your skills to the next level by focusing on a Narrative Magazine, Meridian, and Los Angeles Review, supportive environment, assessing the single project; works already in progress are welcome. Instructions for Submitting Writing Samples: among others. Ms. Lepucki received the 2009 Intersection strengths and weaknesses of students’ work. Every week, you read several short stylistically adven- for the Arts/San Francisco Foundation James D. Phelan turous pieces to expand your repertoire, with an eye to Email your submission to the Writers’ Program Award in fiction. Her first novella, If You’re Not Yet Like Me, Writing Short-Form Nonfiction for “stealing” their techniques and strategies, and post a by the deadline. Submissions sent after the deadline was recently published by Flatmancrooked Press. new installment of your own project for feedback from may not be accepted. Deadlines are subject to change. Publication your instructor and peers. The goal is to generate X 401.16C English 3 units Contact the Writers’ Program by phone at (310) 20-to-30 pages of polished new material by the end of Novel Writing IV: It’s easier than you might think to get your nonfiction 825‑9415 for the most up-to-date information. the course. Prerequisite: At least 1 previous nonfiction Advanced Workshop in Writing a writing published—if you know the rules, know yourself, writing course or consent of instructor. Enrollment Winter quarter submission deadline is December 5. Novel the Professional Way know the market, and polish your skills. This course limited to 15 students. Internet access required to X 446.7C English 3 units helps you accomplish all 4 of these tasks as you pro- If the type of writing sample required is not specified in retrieve course materials. the course description, submit a writing sample of up For writers with at least 150 pages of a novel, this duce short, enjoyable weekly assignments of 250-500 to 3,000 words. (For novel, playwriting, and memoir advanced workshop focuses on elements of technique words in specific nonfiction genres, including personal Reg# W8880B courses, the sample should be an excerpt from the and vision necessary for a work to be considered essay, how-to story, interview/profile, reviews, trends Through Dec 18: $525 / After: $575 project you plan to work on during the course.) Include complete. You receive detailed instructor and peer cri- stories, ghostwriting, dramatic nonfiction, and service Downtown Los Angeles: 261 S. Figueroa St., a cover letter with your name, address, email address, tiques of manuscript chapters and their relation to the stories, which are then workshopped in class. You gain Figueroa Courtyard, Suite 100W, and phone number, and a brief description of your overall work, including a review as needed of the effec- valuable experience in thinking and writing like a pro, Classroom 104 writing background and goals for the course. If you are tive use of voice, tone, mood, imagery, and metaphor. while having fun in a positive, supportive environment. Wed 6:30-9:30pm, Jan 18-Mar 21, 10 mtgs submitting to more than one course, indicate in your A major goal of this course is to provide you with all the Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet access No refund after Jan 25. cover letter your order of preference. self-editing skills you need to polish and revise your required to retrieve course materials. Alison Singh Gee, MA, memoirist and nonfiction writer entire novel. Please prepare a 1-page synopsis and the who has written for such publications as Marie Claire, Reg# W8882B Email submission to [email protected] as a first five pages of your novel, all double-spaced, for the In Style, International Herald Tribune, and Los Angeles Through Dec 19: $419 / After: $459 Word document or .PDF; note the instructor name and Times. Ms. Gee was a former staff writer and correspon- first class. Prerequisite: X 462.71 Novel Writing I: Writ- UCLA: 1264 School of Public Affairs Bldg. course title in the subject line. dent for People magazine and her forthcoming memoir ing the First Novel, X 446.7A Novel Writing II: Writing a Thu 7-10pm, Jan 19-Mar 22, 10 mtgs is The Peacock Sings for Rain (St. Martin’s Press). Do not attempt to register for advanced-level Novel the Professional Way Workshop, and X 446.7C No refund after Jan 26. courses until you receive notification of accep- Novel Writing III: Writing a Novel the Professional Way Norman Kolpas, author and editor whose several tance from the Writers’ Program. All applicants are Works-in-Progress Workshop; or equivalent. Writing hundred nonfiction pieces have appeared in many notified of their status within 10 working days after the sample plus a 1-2-page synopsis is required; for publications, including Bon Appetít, HOME, Cowboys Creative Nonfiction III deadline; accepted students can enroll at this time. If you instructions on submitting a writing sample see this and Indians, Elle, Sunset, Southwest Art, and The do not receive an email confirmation that your submis- page. Enrollment limited to 12; advance enrollment Times of London. Mr. Kolpas also is the author of more A manuscript submission is required for these sion has been received, contact the Writers’ Program required. Visitors not permitted. Internet access than 40 nonfiction books and served as the senior advanced-level workshops. It is recommended office at [email protected] or (310) 825-9415. required to retrieve course materials. vice president of media content for Wolfgang Puck that students take courses at the Nonfiction II The Writers’ Program is not responsible for submissions Reg# W8683B Worldwide, Inc. level prior to submitting samples. At this level, lost due to internet or mechanical failure. Full payment Fee: $605 courses are primarily workshop-driven. of course fees are due upon acceptance. No comments UCLA: 1323 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Updated for 2012 or critiques are provided on student submissions. Tue 7-10pm, Jan 17-Mar 20, 10 mtgs Advanced Creative Nonfiction No refund after Jan 10. Facing the Challenge of Memoir The selection process for advanced courses is competi- Writing X 401.53 English 3 units tive and therefore these courses carry stricter refund Mark Sarvas, writer, author of the novel Harry, Revised Designed for serious writers who seek to refine their (Bloomsbury), which was a Denver Post Best Book of X 411.16 English 3 units policies than other Writers’ Program courses. Please Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul once said that creative nonfiction manuscripts—including memoirs and note that the final refund date for any advanced course 2008 and a finalist for the So Cal Independent Book- personal essay collections—into publishable works, this sellers Association’s Fiction Award. Mr. Sarvas’s literary if you observe hard, think even harder, and figure out is one week prior to its start date. While waiting for what you are thinking in the simplest, clearest lan- intensive workshop helps you polish your writing and permission to enroll, a student may enroll in a second blog, The Elegant Variation, was a Forbes Magazine find your narrative’s energy and unique voice. You also Best of the Web pick, and a Los Angeles magazine Top guage, you will arrive at narrative. There’s no better Writers’ Program course of his or her choice. If a stu- recipe than this for creating great memoir writing, yet develop and perfect self-editing techniques as well as dent is subsequently granted permission to enroll in an L.A. Blog. His reviews have appeared in The New York explore the current market. The course goal is to have Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Philadelphia while the category has exploded in popularity over the advanced course, the student may drop his or her past decade, it’s a difficult form to master. Memoir, if it 2 chapters and a book proposal or 2 short essays ready second choice course and transfer into the advanced Inquirer, The Threepenny Review, and The Barnes and to submit to publishers, as well as increase mastery Noble Review, among others. is to be worth anything at all, requires a level of self- course without penalty; however the student will be revelation that can be painful. This course aims to help over this artistic form. Prerequisite: At least 1 course in responsible for any difference in course fees. memoir, personal essay, or creative nonfiction. Writing Novel Writing V: you examine key issues in your work, create an involv- ing storyline out of life experience, and cast yourself as sample required; for instructions on submitting a writing The Art of the Short Story: A Continuing Writer’s Workshop a compelling character that readers want to follow. sample see this page. Enrollment limited to 12; advance Advanced Workshop X 446.8 English 3 units Constructing dialogue, transferring people in your life enrollment required. Visitors not permitted. Internet X 461.1 English 3 units For students who have completed Novel Writing IV, this onto the page with integrity and honesty, and develop- access required to retrieve course materials. The short story is one of the most challenging of all intensive workshop is specifically directed toward refin- ing insight into the bigger themes of your story are Reg# W8877B literary forms, requiring the precision and imagistic ing an advanced manuscript into a publishable novel. explored. You complete in-class writing exercises and Fee: $605 intensity of poetry combined with such novelistic ele- The focus is on structural and thematic aspects and the critique work, and come away from the course knowing UCLA: 110 Haines Hall ments as structure, setting, and characterization. This maintenance of the author’s unique voice. You work the subject and themes of the book you want to write, Wed 7-10pm, Jan 18-Mar 21, 10 mtgs workshop helps you to realize your fictional intentions closely with your peers and the instructor to assess a concrete plan for completing your book, and a draft No refund after Jan 11. through intensive discussion and detailed written cri- portions of individual manuscripts. Emphasis is given to of your first chapter. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Sandra Kobrin, nonfiction writer whose work has tiques. Attention also is given to preparing stories for developing and perfecting self-editing techniques. The Internet access required to retrieve course materials. appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times overall goal of the course is for each novel to reach a Magazine, Playboy, and Women’s Day, among others. publication in targeted markets. The course goal is to Reg# W9702B complete 2 new stories and 1 revision. Writing sample professional level appropriate for eventual publication. Ms. Kobrin was interactive managing editor for the Los Prerequisite: At least 1 quarter of X 446.7C Novel Writ- Through Dec 24: $419 / After: $459 plus a 1 page cover letter stating your writing back- UCLA: 1278 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Angeles Newspaper Group, managing websites for Los ground and goals for this course is required; for instruc- ing IV: Advanced Class in Writing a Novel the Profes- Angeles Daily News and 7 other newspapers. Her new sional Way, or equivalent. A 3-page writing sample is Tue 6:30-9:30pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs tions on submitting a writing sample see this page. No refund after Jan 31. book, Full Circle: A True Story of Murder, Lies, and Vin- Enrollment limited to 12; advance enrollment required. required; for instructions on submitting a writing sample dication, will be published by New Horizon Press (2012). see this page. Enrollment limited to 12; advance enroll- Samantha Dunn, author whose latest publication is Visitors not permitted. Internet access required to Faith in Carlos Gomez: A Memoir of Salsa, Sex, and retrieve course materials. ment required. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required to retrieve course materials. Salvation (2005, Henry Holt and Co.). Ms. Dunn’s previ- kkk ous books include the memoir Not by Accident: Recon- Reg# W8684B structing a Careless Life, as well as the novel Failing Fee: $605 Paris, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Fiction Award. UCLA: 3114 Rolfe Hall Her articles have appeared in Los Angeles Times, O Tue 7-10pm, Jan 17-Mar 20, 10 mtgs (Oprah), Ms., and Glamour. No refund after Jan 10. Claire Carmichael, author of 27 novels, most recently, the young adult novels Gotta B and Leaving Simplicity, and the crime novel The Platypus Ploy (under the name Claire McNab). Ms. Carmichael has published 20 chil- dren’s novels with Random House Australia. She received the UCLA Extension Distinguished Instructor Award, 2007, and the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in Creative Writing, 1998. 136 Writers’ Program Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971

Reg# W8884B Reg# W9278B Creative Nonfiction: 2-Day Poetry Through Dec 10: $535 / After: $589 Through Dec 28: $79 / After: $85 UCLA: 1329 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Westwood: 204 ABC Extension Lindbrook Myth and Memoir: Creative Writing: Poetry Wed 7-10pm, Jan 11-Mar 28, 12 mtgs Center A Weekend Workshop XL 133A English 5 units c No refund after Jan 18. ✷✷Sat 9:30am-12:30pm, Jan 28, 1 mtg X 404.24 English 1.5 units Available for UCLA transferable credit, this workshop Leon Martell, MFA, playwright, actor, and director, Aimee Liu, author of Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming In writing and telling our stories, we come to know the combines writing assignments with an exploration of whose plays include STEEL: John Henry and the Our Lives (Trumpeter) and Gaining: The Truth about Life deeper pattern of our lives. Perhaps the popularity of contemporary poetry. You look at forms ranging from Shaker, winner of two 2002 Ovation Awards; Bea[u]tiful after Eating Disorders (Warner Books, 2007). Ms. Liu’s memoirs in our culture today reflects the desire to find the sonnet to prose poems, and develop your own in the Extreme; and The History of Fairfax According to other works include the memoir, Solitaire, and the meaning in the mystery of our lives and to understand voice. Each week the work of a contemporary poet is a Sandwich. Mr. Martell directed String of Pearls at novels Flash House; Face; and Cloud Mountain, which our unconscious choices, actions, and dreams. Another discussed and writing assignments are critiqued. The Carnegie Hall, and his work was performed at Disney was published in more than 10 languages and was a reason for the memoir’s appeal might be its mythic course goal is to finish with a number of polished and Hall. He received the UCLA Extension Outstanding Literary Guild “Super Release.” She also co-edited the power. Myth can be seen as an ordering principle that completed poems and understand the demands and Instructor Award in Creative Writing, 1997. book Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk about Writing. gives coherence to the way our memories unfold, and rewards of living an inspired life through poetry. Enroll- the mythic themes of family relationships, quest for ment limited to 20 students. Internet access required How to Write a Million-Dollar identity, love and betrayal, personal sacrifice, and death to retrieve course materials. Publishing Proposal: A 2-Saturday Workshop dominate contemporary memoir writing. This two-day Reg# W9277B X 460.95 English 1.5 units course explores the similarities between memoir and Through Dec 12: $535 / After: $589 New Course Whether you’re in the midst of penning a personal myth and how they function to complement each other. UCLA: 1323 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Submitting to Los Angeles narrative, a how-to, or a treatise on your area of exper- Instruction also examines the structure of myth and Thu 7-10pm, Jan 12-Mar 29, 12 mtgs Literary Journals tise, you need a book proposal to get in the door at any specific mythic themes that are used by contemporary No refund after Jan 19. X 415.2 English 3 units traditional publisher. This 2-day interactive workshop memoirists and focuses on the myths that inform your Rachel Kann, MFA, award-winning poet whose work This workshop has 2 main goals—both of which center puts you with one of the industry’s professional insiders life as you write memoir. Advance enrollment required; appears in various anthologies, including So Luminous on teaching you how to prepare and successfully who’s never written a proposal that hasn’t sold—and no enrollment at the door. the Wildflowers (Tebot Bach Press), and numerous submit a piece of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry for big bucks—and gives you everything you need to Reg# W9360B compilation CDs. Ms. Kann has performed her poetry to a major Los Angeles literary journal. First, you hone know to take your idea to the next level, including the Through Jan 4: $255 / After: $275 nationwide, including at Walt Disney Concert Hall, as your work to publishable standards under the guidance 7-step magic formula to crafting winning proposals; UCLA: 1278 School of Public Affairs Bldg. part of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and ABC’s Eye on L.A., of the founder and editor of the new L.A.-based journal what agents respond to and what you need to approach ✷✷Sat & Sun 9:30am-4:30pm, Feb 4 & 5, 2 mtgs and she is the author of 10 for Everything, a collection The Rattling Wall. Second, you read strategically them; a peek into million-dollar proposals by first-time Maureen Murdock, MA, MFT, internationally published of short stories. selected excerpts from Santa Monica Review, SLAKE, authors; the how-tos of building a provocative table of author whose works include Unreliable Truth: On Mem- Rattle, The Rattling Wall, and Black Clock, among oth- contents and creating the right “architecture” for a book that keeps readers wanting more; the secrets to selling oir and Memory, The Heroine’s Journey, Spinning Intermediate Poetry ers, to understand the specific tastes of these journals’ Inward, and Fathers’ Daughters. Ms. Murdock is the editors. This knowledge not only provides you with an yourself and developing a compelling marketing plan; editor of Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the and whether or not independent (self) publishing is the Poetry and the Art of Craft: edge as you learn how to pinpoint the best places to Second Half of Life and is the recipient of the UCLA send your work, but it also maximizes the value you way to go for you. By the end of the course, you under- Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in Creative Intermediate Workshop derive from a unique feature of this course: the chance stand the inner workings of the publishing industry and Writing, 1995. X 423.72 English 3 units to meet many of these editors in person when they know exactly where your potential stands, with all of This course focuses on revising existing poems and the attend class for Q&A sessions. During the last 2 weeks, the materials you need in draft form to move forward. Updated for 2012 close reading of newly-generated work to explore the you finalize your submission, and learn how to use the For some, this means polishing your perfect pitch pack- essentials of poetic craft, including stanzas, syntax, the Writer’s Market guides, find reputable online resources, age and submitting it to an agent or publisher; for Writing the Personal Essay: enjambed vs. the end-stopped line, and other elements A Weekend Workshop organize a simultaneous submission, and write a cover others, this entails positioning yourself to self-publish affecting the poem’s impact on the page. The goal is to letter. By the end of the course, you have in-hand a successfully. Advance enrollment required; no enroll- X 401.32BA English 1.5 units explore the range of choices available to the savvy, ment at the door. “Personal Essay” is a broad term that encompasses polished piece and a game plan for submitting it to a clued-in poet. Prerequisite: At least 2 previous poetry specific L.A. journal. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Reg# W9273B both serious and humorous essays, opinion pieces, and writing courses and a good familiarity with contempo- first person articles, but which always details the writ- Internet access required to retrieve course materials. Through Feb 10: $255 / After: $275 rary poetry. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Internet UCLA: 1270 School of Public Affairs Bldg. er’s journey through a specific experience. This work- access required to retrieve course materials. Reg# W9283B shop teaches aspiring personal essayists how to be a Through Dec 25: $419 / After: $459 ✷✷Sat 9:30am-4:30pm, Mar 10 & 17, 2 mtgs compelling first-person narrator and employ craft ele- Reg# W9271B UCLA: 1278 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Kristin Loberg, New York Times bestselling writer and ments such as theme, character development, voice, Through Dec 24: $525 / After: $575 Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs editor specializing in proposals and book collaboration. pacing, scene-setting, and exposition to tell their sto- UCLA: A20 Haines Hall No refund after Feb 1. Ms. Loberg’s titles include Payback Time (Crown), Mom ries. The goal is to complete at least 1 personal essay Tue 7-10pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs Michelle Meyering, MFA, founder and editor of the Los Energy (Hay House), The Fiber35 Diet (Free Press), The (500-1,500 words) and develop material for future No refund after Jan 31. Angeles-based literary journal, The Rattling Wall. Ms. Water Secret (Wiley), No Matter What (Grand Central), essays. Prerequisite: A previous nonfiction or memoir Suzanne Lummis, MA, author of the collections Idio- Meyering also was editor of the literary publication, The Vitamin D Solution (Hudson Street Press), and The writing course. Advance enrollment required; no enroll- syncrasies and In Danger. Ms. Lummis’s poetry has Folio, and her poetry has appeared in numerous jour- End of Illness (Free Press), among numerous others. ment at the door. appeared in Pool, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, nals, including The Comstock Review and The Eleventh She also has ghostwritten almost 50 books. The Antioch Review, and Knopf’s Poems of the Ameri- Reg# W9722B Muse. She currently is Director of Programs and Events can West, among others, and her poetry has been for PEN Center USA. Through Feb 3: $255 / After: $275 commissioned by the Getty Museum and Write Now. Writing for the Youth Market UCLA: 1256 School of Public Affairs Bldg. She received the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor ✷✷Sat 9:30am-4:30pm, Mar 3 & 10, 2 mtgs Award in Creative Writing, 1996. Finding and Working with a Barbara Abercrombie, author of 12 books, including Literary Agent Writing for Children: Courage and Craft: Writing Your Life into Story and 711.44 English A Beginning Workshop editor of Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They Have With the publishing world in such flux, having the right X 470 English 3 units Loved and Lost (2011). Ms. Abercrombie has published Playwriting literary agent ready to do battle for you has become Children’s books not only have the potential to entertain in The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, more important than ever. Join author/moderator Aimee and educate but often can be so memorable that they Creative Writing: Drama are held in readers’ hearts and minds well past child- and Baltimore Sun, among others. She received the c Liu and a panel of established literary agents as they UCLA Extension Distinguished Instructor Award in 2010 XL 135 English 5 units discuss the right and wrong ways to approach an agent, hood. This course introduces a range of writing for and the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award Available for UCLA transferable credit, this workshop how to decide which agent is right for you, how to children, including picture books, novels, poetry, and in Creative Writing, 1994. explores dramatic writing through exercises in creating understand an agency representation agreement, which nonfiction. Aimed toward teaching the practical tools ideas, characters, dialogue, action, conflict, and the fees are controversial within the industry, and ways to used to create unforgettable stories, the course exam- uniqueness of voice—all directed toward your own ensure a long and profitable agent-client relationship. ines the structure of a good book, including the use of individual project. You also read selected works of The panel includes agents from the Andrea Brown Liter- plot, characterization, and dialogue. The goal is to contemporary dramatic literature to master specific ary Agency, Global Literary Management, Rob Weisbach complete a draft of a picture book or a chapter and concepts, provide supportive feedback to the work of Creative Management, and the Hill Nadell Literary brief outline of a work for older readers. Enrollment other writers in the group, and learn about the submis- Agency, who represent fiction and nonfiction authors of limited to 20 students. Internet access required to sion process. The goal is to complete a 1-act play or adult, young adult, and children’s literature. Speakers retrieve course materials. one act of a play. Enrollment limited to 20 students. subject to change. For the most up-to-date list of Reg# W8885B Internet access required to retrieve course materials. agents speaking at this program, call the Writers’ Through Dec 12: $419 / After: $459 kkk Program at (310) 825-9416. Advance enrollment UCLA: 1256 School of Public Affairs Bldg. required; no enrollment at the door. Thu 7-10pm, Jan 12-Mar 8 UCLA: School of Public Affairs Bldg. kkk Mon 7-10pm, Mar 5, 10 mtgs No refund after Jan 19. Gretchen Woelfle, award-winning author who has published fiction and nonfiction for children of all ages in books, anthologies, and magazines. Ms. Woelfle’s books include All the World’s a Stage: A Novel in Five Acts (Holiday House, 2011), The Wind at Work, Katje the Windmill Cat, and the middle-grade novel Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer. Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Writers’ Program 137 Writing the Picture Book X 470.65 English 2 units Picture books are handheld wonders. In 32 pages they Online Courses introduce children to art, literature, and to the richness Available for and complexity of the world around them. This course Choose the right course for you. For advise- explores the wide range of possibilities for writers of ment on online creative writing courses call picture books, including concept, poetry, humor, realistic Alicia Wheeler at (310) 794-1846 or Katy UCLA Transfer Credit and fantasy fiction, and nonfiction. Through examination ­Flaherty at (310) 825-0107. For online of the finest examples of the genre, students learn about ­screenwriting courses call Jeff Bonnett at Creative Writing Courses plot, character, dialogue, point-of-view, and setting as (310) 206-1542 or Chae Ko at (310) 206-2612. well as poetic language. Extensive writing assignments Creative Writing: Short Story Creative Writing: Drama and supportive feedback build the skills and confidence writers need to create their own unforgettable stories. Creative Writing Instructor: Instructor: Leon Martell, MFA By the end of the course, participants complete a draft Stephen Cooper, PhD, MFA Page 136. of a picture book and know how to market the finished product. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet General Interest: Page 134. Creative Writing: Short Story m access required to retrieve course materials. Beginning and Novice Writers Creative Writing: Poetry David Borofka, MFA Reg# W9281B Instructor: Through Dec 31: $309 / After: $339 These basic creative writing courses are for Instructor: Page 138. UCLA: 152 Royce Hall students with no prior writing experience, and Rachel Kann, MFA provide the best foundation to go forward in Creative Writing: Poetry m Tue 7-10pm, Jan 31-Mar 6, 6 mtgs Page 136. Michelle Markel, MA, writer whose picture books their writing. Instruction is exercise-driven; Instructor: Rachel Kann, MFA include The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau (Fall the process of “workshopping” is introduced, 2012), The Shark that Taught Me English; and Tyran- where students are asked to share and offer Page 140. nosaurus Math, a Cooperative Children Center Choice feedback on each others’ work with guidance for 2010. Ms. Markel’s writing has also been featured from the instructor. in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, The Wall For more information call (310) 825-9415 or visit uclaextension.edu/writers. Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, among others. The Essential Beginnings: An Introductory Creative Writing Writing for the Youth Market: Workshop m What’s Your Story? m 2,500-3,000 words in length. Open to writers at all Weekend Course X 401A English 2 units X 412 English 2 units levels of experience. For technical requirements see Many aspire to write creatively, but few know how to Everyone has a story. You just have to find it. When page 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students. & get started. For those who wish to write for personal or Quick-Start Your Career in people first start out writing they tend to come from the Reg# W9388B professional satisfaction, this supportive workshop perspective of “this happened to me, that happened to Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 Children’s Writing provides many fundamental techniques—from journal 716 English me,” as opposed to “I wanted this and that got in my Jan 25-Mar 28 writing to imaginative in-class exercises—all geared to way.” Over six weeks, you mine your life for compelling Deb Everson Borofka, PhD, memoirist whose essay A perfect way to launch your career as a children’s motivate and cultivate the beginning creative writer. writer is by writing for children’s magazines, a lucrative stories and learn how to transform your experiences “Remembrance,” finalist for the 2008 John Guyon Liter- Topics include writing from observation and experience, into an engaging narrative. You explore your motivation ary Nonfiction Prize, was published in Crab Orchard yet often overlooked entry-point to book publishing. In creating dynamic characters, writing dialogue, and how this 1-day session, you learn how to access magazine in life—your “want”—helping you to move from passive Review. A founding member of Pacifica Graduate to write from different points of view. The course goal to active in your storytelling. Through lectures; discus- Institute’s Humanities Program, Dr. Everson Borofka’s markets, earn credibility as a writer, win the respect of is to have in hand a series of short sketches or a draft editors, and make money writing features, sidebars, sions; and fun, probing writing exercises, you discover interests include the interface of memory and language of a story. For technical requirements see page 4. your true potential as a writer, whichever genre you and personal mythology. She recently published Mem- games, activities, recipes, media reviews, craft how- Enrollment limited to 15 students. to’s, timelines, and fiction. Topics include choosing choose to pursue. For technical requirements see page ory Muses Memoir, a guide to writing memoir inspired Reg# W9366B subjects to write about, targeting specific age groups, 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students. by Greek mythology. Through Dec 18: $379 / After: $415 identifying market niches, making multiple sales from Reg# W9368B Jan 18-Feb 22 the same research, creating a query or cover letter that Through Jan 22: $379 / After: $415 Emotion into Art: Infusing Your liz gonzález, MFA, poetry, memoir, and fiction writer grabs an editor’s interest, presenting a professional Feb 22-Mar 28 Writing with Feeling m whose volume of poems, Beneath Bone, was published submission package, and translating magazine experi- Kimberlee Auerbach, author of the memoir The Devil, X 406.25 English 2 units by Manifest Press. Ms. gonzález’s work has appeared ence into trade book contracts. By the end of the ses- The Lovers & Me: My Life in Tarot. Ms. Auerbach has How do writers make you laugh and cry? Designed both in numerous publications, including Women on the sion, you are able to name at least 3 markets for performed her comedic monologues throughout New for beginners and those who want to juice up their Edge: Writing from Los Angeles, Heliotrope, Luna, existing manuscripts or manuscripts in-progress and York City at such venues as The Original Improv, The writing and gain mastery, this course begins by explor- Brujula, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She was generate at least three ideas for new projects. You are Bitter End, and Comix. She also has been featured as ing emotion-packed fiction, short prose, and poems to awarded the Arts Council for Long Beach’s Professional invited to bring along a short work-in-progress for a radio guest on Sex, Success, and Sensibility with discover tips, tricks, and strategies for making readers Artist Fellowship. group feedback on market potential in the final portion Candace Bushnell, Wake-Up with Cosmo, and other ache, cheer characters on, or hold their sides with of the day. This class includes lots of hands-on activities Reg# W9367B such shows nationwide. laughter. You learn about gesture, pacing, tone, juxta- and extensive handouts. Advance enrollment required; Through Jan 15: $379 / After: $415 position, hyperbole, personification, double entendres, no enrollment at the door. Feb 15-Mar 21 and more. Through stimulating writing exercises, you Harry Youtt, fiction writer and Pushcart Prize-nomi- General Interest: Special Subjects Reg# W8886B are encouraged to find your own voice to create short nated poet whose recent collections of poetry include Through Jan 4: $129 / After: $139 and Themes writing (prose or poems) about yourself and/or fictional I’ll Always Be from Lorain, Even the Autumn Leaves, UCLA: 1270 School of Public Affairs Bldg. characters that can attract the attention of both readers and Outbound for Elsewhere. Mr. Youtt is on the editorial ✷✷Sat 9:30am-4:30pm, Feb 4, 1 mtg Unless otherwise noted in the description, and editors. For technical requirements see page 4. board of the international Journal of Consciousness, Alexis O’Neill, PhD, author of the picture books The courses in this section are open to students Enrollment limited to 15 students. Literature and the Arts and was the co-recipient of Recess Queen (Scholastic), a Los Angeles Times best- of all levels who want to focus on a specific Reg# W9389B the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in seller and children’s choice nominee in 11 states; The area of study. These courses may be used to Through Jan 8: $379 / After: $415 Creative Writing, 2004. Worst Best Friend (Scholastic); Loud Emily (Simon & fulfill Creative Writing certificate require- Feb 8-Mar 14 Judith Prager, PhD, writer whose novels include The Schuster); and Estela’s Swap (Lee & Low). Dr. O’Neill’s ments; contact your advisor for details. Rochelle Jewel Shapiro, whose novel, Miriam the Newman Factor and Black Water. Dr. Prager’s nonfiction work also has been published in Cobblestone, Calliope, Medium, was nominated for the Harold U. Ribelow includes Verbal First Aid: Help Kids Heal From Pain and Faces, Odyssey, Spider, and Cricket. Award. Ms. Shapiro’s essays have been published in Fear—and Come out Strong (Penguin Berkley), The Character Archetypes and Life Writing: Hero/ine, Witch, The New York Times and Newsweek, and her short Worst Is Over: What to Say When Every Moment Counts stories have appeared in numerous publications, includ- (Jodere Group), and Journey to Alternity. She was the Orphan, Sage, Trickster, and m ing the anthology Father (Pocket Books), and her poetry co-recipient of the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instruc- Magic Helpers in The Iowa Review, Sedge, and Moment. She won the X 401.85 English 3 units tor Award in Creative Writing, 2004. Branden Memorial Literary Award. As the ongoing popularity of such literary forms as the personal essay, memoir, and short story attest, the human psyche’s drive to understand life by shaping it into stories is powerful and eternal. In addition to their individual qualities, the main characters in these per- sonal narratives should reverberate with universal meaning. This course introduces psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of archetypes and then focuses on six UC credit; see page 149 key archetypal patterns common in storytelling. Through c short exercises and readings, you explore these as Online course templates for shaping personal narratives. The course m goals include developing awareness of archetypal pat- Text required; see page 148 terns, experimenting with various motifs/archetypes in & personal narratives, and completing a final project M Course held during daytime hours 138 Writers’ Program Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Sojourns through Memory: Creative Writing: Short Story m Creating Universes, Building Worlds: Library. Intimate Beings, a paranormal romance in her Writing out of Your Life m XL 134A English 5 units c The Short Story in Science Fiction second trilogy, was published in October 2008. Ms. X 450.86 English 3 units Available for UCLA transferable credit, this workshop and Fantasy m Inclán’s sixth romance novel, The Beautiful Being, was Writing out of your life can be a process of self-revela- covers the key elements of fiction, including plot, X 455 English 3 units published by Kensington Books (October 2009). tion, a way of tending to the soul and discerning the characterization, setting, point-of-view, and various How do you introduce an alien environment, create an pattern of your life even while you’re in the midst of story development techniques, as well as publication alternate timeline or magical realm, and then populate it Novel Writing III: Writing a Novel the living it. Whether you want to write a memoir or trans- markets. Your goal is to complete or rewrite 3 stories with characters whose problems matter to its readers— Professional Way Works-in-Progress mute your life into fiction or poetry, this workshop helps of average length. For technical requirements see page all in 5,000 words or less? Designed for those interested Workshop m you mine the rich vein of material that is yours alone. 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students. in focusing on short speculative fiction, this course X 446.7B English 3 units The focus of this workshop is on production, pleasure, Reg# W9393B deepens your understanding of its many subgenres, For those with at least 50 pages of a novel-in-progress, and encouragement. Using a combination of weekly Through Dec 11: $659 / After: $725 including alternate history, horror, dark fantasy, sword and this workshop guides you to generate at least 50 new prompts and assignments, instructor feedback, and Jan 11-Mar 28 sorcery, urban fantasy, sociological sci fi, hard science pages as well as learn essential self-editing techniques, group interaction, you write a series of autobiographical David Borofka, MFA, fiction writer whose short stories fiction, and others, while at the same time immersing you with the instructor and peers reviewing each partici- narratives. For both beginners and seasoned writers have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Missouri in the writing principles common to all of these genres. pant’s project in detail. Refinements of character, who want to get in touch with their personal voice. For Review, Southern Review, and Glimmer Train. Mr. The course goal is to complete and polish a short science structure, emotional content, and the development of technical requirements see page 4. Enrollment limited Borofka’s collection, Hints of His Mortality, won the Iowa fiction or fantasy story and to identify three appropriate the writer’s voice also are explored. The goal is to to 15 students. & Short Fiction Award, and his story, “The Secret Life of markets for the finished piece. For technical requirements produce a substantial portion of a novel approaching Reg# W9387B Engineers,” won the EEWN Short Fiction Prize. He see page 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students. professional caliber. For technical requirements see Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 received the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Reg# W9369B page 4. Prerequisite: X 462.71 Novel Writing I: Writing Jan 25-Mar 28 Award in Creative Writing (Online) Award, 2008. Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 the First Novel and X 446.7A Novel Writing II: Writing a Lynn Lauber, fiction writer, essayist, and ghostwriter Jan 25-Mar 28 Novel the Professional Way Workshop, or departmental who has published the autobiographical fiction books, Novel Writing I: Alyx Dellamonica, author of “The Town on Blighted Sea,” approval. Enrollment limited to 15 students. White Girls and 21 Sugar Street, and a memoir/writing Writing the First Novel m a Year’s Best Science Fiction pick, and numerous other Reg# W9398B book, Listen to Me: Writing Life into Meaning, all with X 462.71 English 3 units stories. Ms. Dellamonica has published fiction in Isaac Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 W. W. Norton. Ms. Lauber’s short stories and essays That novel is inside you waiting to emerge, but deciding Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, SciFi.Com, and Jan 18-Mar 21 have been anthologized and have appeared in numer- where and how to begin and the demands of writing the Realms of Fantasy, and her work has appeared in Alternate Linda Raymond, MA, American Book Award-winner for ous publications, including The New York Times. manuscript may seem daunting. It need not be. Weekly Generals II. Her first novel, Indigo Springs, won the 2010 her novel, Rocking the Babies, for which she also assignments, group interaction, and instructor feedback Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. received the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association help you explore various methods of writing your first Award for Best Fiction and the Black Caucus of the Fiction I novel while learning the key craft points of plot, struc- American Library Association Honor Prize for Fiction. ture, point-of-view, sense of place, and voice. The goal Fiction II Ms. Raymond’s short stories have appeared in Prism Courses in this section are recommended for is to complete the first chapter of your novel by estab- International Magazine and Calliope, and her book students with some writing experience. lishing an intimacy with your characters as you artfully These intermediate-level courses are reviews in The San Francisco Chronicle. Instruction is a mix of lecture and workshop- shape their journey, and to develop an overall concept designed for students who have fulfilled the ping. Students continue to share and offer to guide you through your story. For technical require- prerequisites stated in each description. New Course feedback in a frank and supportive environ- ments see page 4. Prerequisite: At least 1 fiction writing Instruction is a mix of lecture and workshop- Storytelling for Creative Writers: ment, assessing the strengths and weaknesses course. Enrollment limited to 15 students. & ping. Students continue to share and offer Building Your Craft Toolbox m of students’ work. Those new to writing might Reg# W9394B feedback in a frank and supportive environ- X 450.82 English 3 units consider courses listed under General Interest: Through Dec 11: $529 / After: $579 ment, assessing the strengths and weak- Your storytelling goal is to create stories that sweep Beginning and Novice Writers. Jan 11-Mar 14 nesses of students’ work. your readers from their world into yours, and this course Robert Eversz, MFA, author of the novels Zero to the teaches you the nuts and bolts craft work you need to Introduction to Fiction Writing m Bone, Digging James Dean, and Burning Garbo (Simon Writing the Short Story: make the magic. Each week, assignments focus on X 403A English 3 units & Schuster); Killing Paparazzi (St. Martin’s); and Gypsy Intermediate Workshop m building a specific writing technique, including point of It has been said that all of us have locked inside At least Hearts and Shooting Elvis (Grove Atlantic). Mr. Eversz’s X 461 English 3 units view, writing in the active voice, dialogue, writing spe- 1 good story to tell. Through a combination of written novels have been translated into 15 languages. He was Focusing on close textual analysis and intensive writing cifically, filtering in backstory, creating characters, exercises, extensive online group discussions, and the finalist judge for the 2007 AWP Award Series in the practice, you create two short stories and one revision description, and sense of place. The course goal is to instructor feedback, you learn how to tell yours. Topics Novel, and co-founded the Prague Summer Program in this 10-week workshop. Brief weekly lectures on build your craft “toolbox” and take your writing to the include plot, point-of-view, setting, description, dia- for writers at Western Michigan University. technique, analysis of published stories, and in-depth next level. Open to writers of novels, short stories, logue, tension, rewriting, and submission strategies. instructor and peer critique develop and deepen your memoirs, and personal essays. For technical require- This course focuses on short fiction but includes prin- Committing the Perfect Crime: understanding of the art and craft of short story writing. ments see page 4.. Prerequisite: Previous creative ciples that students use in X 462.71 Novel Writing I: Writing Your First Mystery m Strategies for approaching the marketplace also are writing course. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Writing the First Novel. The course goal is to draft one X 495.5 English 3 units discussed. For technical requirements see page 4. Reg# W9486B short story or a chapter of a novel. This course is a Do you long to commit the perfect crime—and see it bound Prerequisite: At least 2 previous fiction writing courses. Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 prerequisite for students continuing in either the short- between covers and on the bestseller lists? Designed for Enrollment limited to 15 students. & Jan 18-Mar 21 or long-fiction sequence. For technical requirements beginners as well as those with a work-in-progress who Reg# W9396B Lynn Hightower, nationally and internationally bestsell- see page 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students. & need direction, this course is a supportive, results-oriented Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 ing novelist with 12 books in print. Ms. Hightower’s Reg# W9391B workshop that guides you in planning your mystery or sus- Jan 18-Mar 21 books have appeared on The New York Times “Notable” Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 pense novel, or revising some of the choices made in your Anne Sanow, MFA, fiction writer whose work has list and The London Times bestseller list, and have been Jan 25-Mar 28 work-in-progress. You learn the fundamentals of crime appeared in Prime Number Magazine, Dossier, Crab, selections of The Literary Guild and The Mystery Guild. David Samuel Levinson, MFA, author of the forthcom- writing, including structure and pacing, point-of-view, setting, Orchard Review, and Shenandoah, among others. Ms. She is a recipient of the Shamus Award, and her latest ing novel Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence (Algonquin, character development, dialogue and voice, and clues and Sanow’s collection, Triple Time (2009), won the Drue book, When Secrets Die, was published by Atria/Simon 2012) and the story collection Most of Us Are Here red herrings, as well as self-editing techniques. Also covered Heinz Literature Prize and the L. L. Winship/PEN New & Schuster. Against Our Will (Viking Penguin UK, 2005). Mr. Levin- are the practical aspects of attracting the right agent and/or England Award for fiction. son’s short stories have been published in Prairie editor. The goal is to draft the first chapter of your planned Fiction Rewrite Workshop m Schooner, The Brooklyn Review, and The New Penguin mystery or suspense novel. For technical requirements see Novel Writing II: Writing a Novel the X 465.1 English 3 units Book of Gay Short Stories. He was a top finalist for the page 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Professional Way Workshop m You’ve completed a draft of a short story or novel chap- Flannery O’Connor Short Story Prize and has received Reg# W9386B X 446.7A English 3 units ter...now what? How can you approach your work so as numerous fellowships. Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 This workshop helps you develop your long-form fiction to “re-envision” and refine it? Which techniques are of Reg# W9390B Jan 18-Mar 21 project from the idea stage to the writing/planning stage. particular concern when revising? Through short lectures, Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 Kris Neri, two-time Derringer Award winner and two- With an emphasis on finding your book through organi- readings, and discussions, you explore various Jan 18-Mar 21 time Pushcart Prize nominee whose novels include High cally exploring voice, viewpoint, characterization, and approaches and techniques. During the course, you Beth Ann Bauman, MFA, author of the young adult Crimes on the Magical Plane, Never Say Die and the different approaches to structure, the course assignments present one draft of a short story or novel chapter, and novel Rosie and Skate, published by Random House in Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-nominated Tracy include writing scenes using characters and situations two revisions of that same work. For technical require- 2009, and the short story collection Beautiful Girls Eaton mystery novels Revenge of the Gypsy Queen, from the projected novel and discussion of your in-prog- ments see page 4. Prerequisite: Completion of 1 fiction- (MacAdam/Cage). Ms. Bauman’s work has appeared in Dem Bones’ Revenge, and Revenge for Old Times’ ress work. Mini-lectures on the art of the novel, intuitive writing workshop and of 1 draft of a short story or novel numerous publications, including the Barcelona Review Sake. Ms. Neri also is the author of the story collection creative process, and conventional vs. non-conventional chapter. Enrollment limited to 15 students. & and the anthology Many Lights in Many Windows. She The Rose in the Snow. approaches to novel structure also are covered. Your goal Reg# W9400B has received fellowships from the Jerome Foundation is to complete 50 well-crafted pages of a novel. For Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 and the New York Foundation for the Arts. technical requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: X 403A Jan 25-Mar 28 Introduction to Fiction Writing and X 462.71 Novel Writing Daniel M. Jaffe, MFA, internationally published fiction I: Writing the First Novel or departmental approval. Enroll- writer, essayist, and literary translator whose novel, The ment limited to 15 students. & Limits of Pleasure, was selected by ForeWord Magazine Reg# W9397B as a Book of the Year Award finalist. Mr. Jaffe compiled Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 and edited With Signs and Wonders: An International Jan 25-Mar 28 Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction. He received the Jessica Barksdale Inclán, MA, fiction writer and poet UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in who has published six novels with New American ­Creative Writing (Online), 2006. Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Writers’ Program 139

storytelling problems lurk. By focusing on a structural Fiction III analysis of one specific section of your novel every week, you gain insight into how to hold every scene account- A manuscript submission is required for these able and you have the creative opportunity to solve Don’t Just Take advanced-level workshops. It is recom- thorny difficulties caused by convoluted, overly complex mended that students take courses at the storylines, deadly slow pace, mid-novel sag, or a plot Fiction II level prior to submitting samples. At that simply needs more flesh. Once you master this skill, Our Word for It! this level, courses are primarily workshop- you realize that having a sound story structure actually driven. For complete instructions on submit- takes the weight off your shoulders and frees the muse. “ I went in with a story that was near completion ting a sample see Fiction III on page 135. For technical requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: Writing sample plus a one- to two-page synopsis is and by the time I left I learned that my story The Art of the Short Story: required; for instructions on submitting a writing sample was about so much more. Beautiful bits of aim- Advanced Workshop m see page 135. Enrollment limited to 12 students. less prose were refined and redirected. The result X 461.1 English 3 units Reg# W9405B changed my draft of a nearly finished story into The short story is one of the most challenging of all liter- Fee: $650 an almost new project with a more meaningful ary forms, requiring the precision and imagistic intensity Jan 18-Mar 21 backstory, allowing my characters’ lives and of poetry combined with such novelistic elements as No refund after January 11. structure, setting, and characterization. This workshop Lynn Hightower, nationally and internationally bestsell- actions to become richer and more interesting to helps you to realize your fictional intentions through ing novelist with 12 books in print. Ms. Hightower’s readers.” intensive discussion and detailed written critiques and books have appeared on The New York Times “Notable” —Becky Fink, Los Angeles, CA to learn how to prepare your stories for publication in list and The London Times bestseller list, and have been 2011 Writers Studio Participant targeted markets. The course goal is to complete two selections of The Literary Guild and The Mystery Guild. new stories and one revision. For technical requirements She is a recipient of the Shamus Award, and her latest see page 4. Prerequisite: X 403A Introduction to Fiction book, When Secrets Die, was published by Atria/Simon 2012 Writers Studio Writing and X 461 Writing the Short Story: Intermediate & Schuster. Thu-Sun, Feb 9-12 Workshop. Writing sample required; for instructions on submitting a writing sample see page 135. Enrollment Novel Writing Mentorship For more information, see pages 130-132. Becky Fink. limited to 12 students. & Program m Reg# W9401B X 446.82 English 1.5 units Fee: $650 Appropriate for advanced writers who have a complete Reg# W9429B m Jan 25-Mar 28 manuscript, the Novel Writing Mentorship Program is a The Art of Creative Nonfiction Fee: $1,195 No refund after January 18. unique opportunity to work closely with a professional X 401.39 English 3 units Mar 5-30 Charles Wyatt, MFA, MM, fiction writer whose short fiction writer who determines the best individual course This course explores the unlimited possibilities of cre- No refund after March 1. fiction has appeared in American Literary Review, The of action based on your level, experience, and ultimate ative nonfiction, which embraces methods of creative Lynn Hightower, for credits see this page. New England Review, and New American Writing, writing goals. All students have one-on-one access to writing as diverse as personal essay and memoir. among others. Mr. Wyatt is the author of Listening to the instructor Monday through Friday (excluding holi- Working with the same techniques as fiction and Mozart (winner of the John Simmons Award), and the days) for four full weeks. Turnaround time for instructor Creative Nonfiction I poetry—imagination, empathy, character development, novella The Spirit Autobiography of S. N. Jones. His new feedback is 12-24 hours for most work and 24-36 structure, and plot—you are guided to transform an collection of short fiction, Swan of Tuonela, was hours for longer material. Special emphasis is on episode of truth into a complete and artful narrative. Courses in this section are recommended for This course includes several readings of short excerpts ­published by Hanging Loose Press. rewrites, storytelling structure, balance, and pace, as students with some writing experience. well as specifics of writing craft. Includes once a week, from a variety of nonfiction authors. For the most up to Instruction is a mix of lecture and workshop- date list of readings, contact the Writers’ Program at Novel Writing IV: Advanced 30-minute phone conversations as needed. May be ping. With guidance from the instructor, stu- repeated as often as desired. Full manuscripts should (310) 794-1846. For technical requirements see page Workshop in Writing a Novel the dents share and offer feedback in a frank and 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Professional Way m be submitted to the teacher 14 days before class begins supportive environment, assessing the Reg# W9407B X 446.7C English 3 units to optimize the rewriting time of the class. For technical strengths and weaknesses of students’ work. Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 For students with at least 150 pages of a novel, this requirements see page 4. Writing sample required; for Jan 18-Mar 21 advanced workshop focuses on elements of technique instructions on submitting a sample see page 135. Creative Alchemy: Finding and Sharon Bray, EdD, author of When Words Heal: Writing and vision necessary for a work to be considered Enrollment limited. Restricted course; call (310) 794‑1846 Writing Life Stories You Were the Experience of Cancer and A Healing Journey: Writing complete. You receive intensive instructor and peer for permission to enroll. Web enrollments automatically m Together through Breast Cancer. Dr. Bray’s short memoir, critiques of manuscript chapters and their relation to generate a “Permission to Enroll” request. Internet Meant to Tell X 407.2 English 3 units “The Nickname,” appeared in Looking Back: Stories of the overall work, including a review as needed of the access required to retrieve course materials. This course is for anyone who has a story from “real Our Mothers and Fathers in Retrospect. Most recently, she effective use of voice, tone, mood, imagery, and meta- Reg# W9808B life” that needs to be told. Sometimes your story is co-edited the anthology Learning to Live Again, published phor. A major goal of this course is to give you the Fee: $1,195 about a person, place, thing, or some concealed part by the Stanford University School of Medicine. self-editing skills to polish and revise your entire novel Jan 9-Feb 3 of yourself, a remembered time or event, or even within and beyond the course itself. Please prepare a no refund after January 5. something that will happen as you give account to its m 1-page, double-spaced synopsis and your novel’s first Claire Carmichael, author of 27 novels, most recently, Writing the Personal Essay unfolding. Over the span of this course, you identify this 5 pages for the first week of class. For technical the young adult novels Gotta B and Leaving Simplicity, X 401.30 English 3 units element of your story’s core fascination and acquire the requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: X 462.71 Novel and the crime novel The Platypus Ploy (under the name “Personal Essay” is a broad term that encompasses skills to tell it, including researching and interviewing Writing I: Writing the First Novel, X 446.7A Novel Writing Claire McNab). Ms. Carmichael has published 20 chil- humorous essays, opinion pieces, and essay- and techniques; cultivating your own unique writing voice; II: Writing a Novel the Professional Way Workshop, and dren’s novels with Random House Australia. She book-length memoir, but which always details the and constructing your story into a combination of epi- X 446.7B Novel Writing III: Writing a Novel the Profes- received the UCLA Extension Distinguished Instructor writer’s journey through a specific experience. This sodes that advance and present it to best dramatic and sional Way Works-in-Progress Workshop; or equivalent. Award, 2007, and the UCLA Extension Outstanding workshop teaches aspiring personal essayists how to imaginative effect. Finally, you investigate possible Writing sample plus a 1-2 page synopsis is required; Instructor Award in Creative Writing, 1998. be a compelling first-person narrator and employ craft venues where each story might most effectively be for instructions on submitting a writing sample see Reg# W9426B elements such as theme, character development, voice, presented. For technical requirements see page 4. page 135. Enrollment limited to 12 students. & Fee: $1,195 pacing, scene-setting, and exposition to tell their sto- Enrollment limited to 15 students. ries. The goal is to complete At least 1 personal essay Reg# W9404B Jan 9-Feb 3 Reg# W9488B (600-2,500 words) and develop material for future Fee: $650 No refund after January 5. Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 essays. For technical requirements see page 4. Enroll- Jan 18-Mar 21 Lynn Hightower, for credits see this page. Jan 18-Mar 21 ment limited to 15 students. No refund after January 11. Reg# W9809B Harry Youtt, fiction writer and Pushcart Prize-nomi- Caroline Leavitt, internationally published fiction writer Fee: $1,195 Reg# W9483B nated poet whose recent collections of poetry include of nine novels, including her latest, Pictures of You, a Feb 6-Mar 2 Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 I’ll Always Be from Lorain, Even the Autumn Leaves, New York Times Trade Fiction Bestseller. Ms. Leavitt’s No refund after February 2. Jan 25-Mar 28 and Outbound for Elsewhere. Mr. Youtt is on the editorial work has been anthologized in The Other Woman and Claire Carmichael, for credits see this page. Liza Monroy, MFA, fiction and nonfiction writer whose board of the international Journal of Consciousness, Bad Girls. A critic for The Boston Globe and People, she work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Reg# W9428B Literature and the Arts and was the co-recipient of the was the first recipient of the UCLA Extension Outstand- The New York Times, Newsweek, and salon.com. Ms. Fee: $1,195 UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in Cre- ing Instructor Award in Creative Writing (Online), 2004. Monroy has written travel essays for Seal Press and The Feb 6-Mar 2 ative Writing, 2004. MTV/Frommer’s Guide to Mexico. Her novel, Mexico High, No refund after February 2. Judith Prager, PhD, writer whose novels include The was published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House in 2008. Novel Bootcamp: Advanced Lynn Hightower, for credits see this page. Newman Factor and Black Water. Dr. Prager’s nonfiction Storytelling Structure m Reg# W9810B includes Verbal First Aid: Help Kids Heal From Pain and X 450.79 English 3 units Fee: $1,195 Fear—and Come out Strong (Penguin Berkley), The Story structure is the engine that makes your novel run. Mar 5-30 Worst Is Over: What to Say When Every Moment Counts No matter how lyrical your writing or how engaging your No refund after March 1. (Jodere Group), and Journey to Alternity. She was the characters, if the pace and plot are not working, you are Claire Carmichael, for credits see this page. co-recipient of the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instruc- painting pretty pictures on a wall that is going to fall tor Award in Creative Writing, 2004. down. In this workshop, you work through your novel kkk scene by scene, pinpointing exactly what storytelling goals are crucial for each scene and seeing where any m Online course 140 Writers’ Program Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971

Reg# W9422B Creative Nonfiction II Poetry Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 Development Jan 25-Mar 28 These intermediate-level courses are Creative Writing: Poetry m Sherry Shahan, MFA in writing for children and young Writing Coverage: Story Analysis for designed for students who have fulfilled the XL 133A English 5 units c adults; author of more than 30 children’s books, includ- Film and Television m prerequisites stated in each description. Available for UCLA transferable credit, this workshop ing the forthcoming young adult novel Purple Daze; the X 478.39 Film & Television 3 units Instruction is a mix of lecture and work­ combines writing assignments with an exploration of middle-grade novels Death Mountain and Frozen Stiff; Designed for both aspiring story analysts and screen- shopping. Students continue to share and contemporary poetry. You look at forms ranging from the picture books Spicy Hot Colors, Cool Cats Counting, writers who want to accelerate their careers, this course offer feedback in a frank and supportive the sonnet to prose poems, and develop your own and That’s Not How You Play Soccer, Daddy; and Dash- helps you master the methods used by story analysts environment, assessing the strengths and voice. Each week the work of a contemporary poet is ing through the Snow: The Story of the Iditarod, an who evaluate submissions to production companies, weaknesses of students’ work. discussed and writing assignments are critiqued. The American Booksellers “Pick of the List”. agencies, and studios. You learn how to analyze in- course goal is to finish with a number of polished and depth the three-act structure (the standard in Holly- Intermediate Creative Nonfiction completed poems and understand the demands and wood), dramatic and comic scene construction, what m rewards of living an inspired life through poetry. For Screenwriting precise terminology is used in story sessions, the Writing Workshop technical requirements see page 4. Enrollment limited X 401.7 English 3 units foundations for great dialogue, and how to find original to 15 students. & approaches to established genres. These and other If you have already begun to explore memoir or other Mentorship Program narrative nonfiction genres, this workshop guides you Reg# W9419B principles become synthesized into coverage written to to take your skills to the next level by focusing on a Through Dec 11: $659 / After: $725 the highest professional standards, in preparation for Jan 11-Mar 28 Screenwriting Mentorship stepping into a job as story analyst or being able to single project; works-in-progress are welcome. Every m week, you read several short, stylistically adventurous Rachel Kann, MFA, award-winning poet whose work Program access your own scripts effectively. For technical pieces to expand your repertoire, with an eye to “steal- appears in various anthologies, including So Luminous X 430M Film & Television 1.5 units requirements see page 4. Course may be taken as a ing” their techniques and strategies, and post a new the Wildflowers (Tebot Bach Press), and numerous Appropriate for students with previous training and who certificate elective. Enrollment limited to 15 students. installment of your own project for feedback from your compilation CDs. Ms. Kann has performed her poetry have written at least 1 screenplay, this one-on-one Reg# W9357B instructor and peers. The goal is to generate 20-30 nationwide, including at Walt Disney Concert Hall, as customized course of instruction is tailored to your Through Dec 11: $529 / After: $579 pages of polished new material by the end of the part of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and ABC’s Eye on L.A., specific screenwriting challenges. If you have a solid Jan 11-Mar 14 course. For technical requirements see page 4. Prereq- and she is the author of 10 for Everything, a collection idea for your screenplay, you focus on developing a Barney Lichtenstein, MA, professional story analyst uisite: At least 1 previous nonfiction course or consent of short stories. logline, scene list, and character biographies, with the who periodically assists in training new analysts for of instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. & goal of being ready to begin writing your screenplay. If the Sundance Institute and production companies, and you are actively writing pages, you receive regular whose Story Analyst’s Top Ten List of Effective Screen- Reg# W9415B Writing for the Youth Market feedback as you write and address craft issues that writing Methods has been featured in Creative Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 arise from those pages. If you have a completed draft Jan 25-Mar 28 Screenwriting, and on Script Magazine’s website. Mr. New Course of a screenplay, you revise and polish it to submission Lichtenstein was the recipient of the UCLA Extension Gordon Grice, MFA, nonfiction writer whose first book Zombies, Werewolves, and Other standards with special attention to flow, scene transi- Outstanding Instructor Award in Screenwriting, 2006. of creative nonfiction, The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Teenage Misfits: Compelling tions, camera geography, and the elimination of the Predators, appeared on best-of-the-year lists from The m unnecessary. One-on-one access to the instructor New York Public Library, Los Angeles Times, and PEN Characters in the YA Novel X 481.2 English 3 units Mon-Fri (excluding holidays) for 4 full weeks. Turn- Business of Screenwriting USA. Mr. Grice’s nonfiction has appeared in The New around time for instructor feedback is 12-24 hours for Yorker, Harper’s, and Granta. His latest book, Deadly Unlike most literature, young adult novels are thriving in the marketplace—good news for writers inclined to most work and 24-36 hours for longer material. For New Course Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals, was pub- technical requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: m lished by The Dial Press, a Random House division. write for and about teens. Whether you’re interested in The Business of Screenwriting vampires, werewolves, heroines of dystopian universes, X 440A Writing the First Screenplay I, X 440B Writing 789.888 Film & Television or that complex, shape-shifting being known as the the First Screenplay II, X 440C Writing the First Screen- Hollywood is always open to anyone with a well-written Creative Nonfiction III human young adult, this workshop helps you get under play III, and X 440D Writing the First Screenplay IV, or story and a savvy marketing plan, and this 4-session the skin of your characters and bring them to life. You departmental approval. Course may be taken as a course gives screenwriters the tools to help them A manuscript submission is required for these explore the differences (real and perceived) between YA certificate elective. Enrollment limited to 10 students. assess, protect, present, and pitch their work effectively. advanced-level workshops. It is recom- novels and general literature, but the primary focus is Students may enroll in subsequent sections of the Learn how to determine if your script is ready to be mended that students take courses at the as follows: how to write believable, memorable teen Mentorship Program to either begin another new proj- submitted, how to protect both your screenplay and its ect, or to continue working on their original project in Nonfiction II level prior to submitting samples. characters in your own voice. In addition to individual attached option rights, how to create a kinetic logline critiques in a workshop setting (up to 20 pages per order to refine their story idea, address specific prob- and a “hook and shock” query letter, and the primary At this level, courses are primarily workshop- lems with scenes or dialogue, rewrite single pages, driven. For complete instructions on submit- submission), you engage in hands-on craft exercises. tactics and techniques needed to bust through the outer receive feedback on script pages, and/or see their door of the industry. Once you have entered the inner ting a sample see Fiction III on page 135. You also examine a diverse sampling of YA fiction— classic and contemporary, literary and genre (and in project through to final polish. May be repeated as often sanctum, the micro-macro style of pitching significantly between)—for examples of strong characterization. For as desired. enhances your chances of getting your script read. You Writing and Publishing the Personal also learn how to find companies that are synergetic to m technical requirements see page 4. Enrollment limited Reg# W9399B Essay: Advanced Workshop to 15 students. Fee: $795 your specific screenplay. In addition, this course covers X 401.31B English 3 units Jan 9-Feb 5 the basic legal issues every writer should be aware of Designed for those familiar with the personal essay Reg# W9481B Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 No refund after Jan 6. from the outset. For technical requirements see page form and who are already convinced of its unique power Tom Lazarus, screenwriter-director; WGA member 4. Enrollment limited to 25 students. to reach the masses, this advanced workshop focuses Jan 18-Mar 28 whose credits include the features Stigmata; Just You Reg# W9642B on revising existing works, analyzing current markets (no sessions Jan 25-31) and Me, Kid; Movies Kill; Word of Mouth; House of Through Jan 13: $155 / After: $165 and trends, and submitting for publication. You establish Amanda Gersh, MFA, fiction writer, veteran ghostwriter Love; and Voyeur Confessions as well as seven movies- Feb 13-19 yourself as a professional by completing hands-on for the popular Sweet Valey and Fearless YA series. Ms. of-the-week. Mr. Lazarus is the author of Secrets of No refund after Feb 10. assignments rooted in the real world, participating in Gersh recently publised the YA novel The Summer of Film Writing (St. Martin’s Press) as well as Rewriting Bill Boyle, screenwriter, director, producer whose extensive peer review, and receiving practical support. Skinny Dipping (Sourcebooks, 2010) under the pen Secrets for Screenwriters (St. Martin’s Press). writer-producer credits include Now and Forever and For technical requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: name Amanda Howells, and her short stories have Sealed with a Kiss. Mr. Boyle’s work has received an Potential students must submit a draft up to 3,000 appeared in Tin House, One Story, Open City, The Reg# W9402B ACTRA nomination, as well as honors at the Palm words along with a brief letter of intent; for instructions Believer, and The Mississippi Review, among others. Fee: $795 Springs Festival and Chicago Film Festival. He has on submitting a writing sample see page 135. Enroll- She received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDow- Feb 6-Mar 4 previously lectured at Praxis Centre for Screenwriters ment limited to 12 students. ell Colony, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. No refund after Feb 4. Tom Lazarus, for credits see this page. and Vancouver Film School. Reg# W9416B Writing Picture Books for Children: Reg# W9403B Fee: $650 m Jan 25-Mar 28 A Beginning Workshop Fee: $795 Feature Film Writing: Mar 5-Apr 1 No refund after January 18. X 470.51 English 3 units Beginning Courses Victoria Zackheim, MA, editor of The Other Woman: Created for the beginning writer, this course explores No refund after Mar 3. 21 Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly about Sex, the various genres within the category of children’s Tom Lazarus, for credits see this page. picture books, including nonfiction, writing in rhyme, Writing the First Screenplay I m Deception, Love, and Betrayal; For Keeps: Women Tell X 440A Film & Television 3 units the Truth about Their Bodies, Growing Older, and classics, and concept books for young children. Writing exercises focus on improving fundamental craft skills, The first in a 4-part sequence designed to take you Acceptance; The Face in the Mirror: Writers Reflect on through the full process of writing a feature film screen- Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age; and such as characterization, story structure, setting, voice, and point-of-view. You are encouraged to expand your play, this course grounds you in the key craft elements He Said What? Women Write About Moments When of story structure, plot, scene development, character, Everything Changed (Seal Press/Perseus, 2011). creative thinking in order to develop your own unique writing style (your voice), and a peer feedback group theme, genre, and dialogue, and shows you how they provides a nurturing atmosphere for discussion of each work together to grip an audience’s emotions. You learn writer’s work. The goal is to complete a draft of a pic- c UC credit; see page 149 how to create and evaluate story ideas; explore how ture book manuscript and a market list of potential characters’ inner wants and immediate goals shape and publishers. For technical requirements see page 4. m Online course drive a screenplay’s action; see what constitutes com- Enrollment limited to 15 students. & pelling plots and subplots; and learn how to construct a & Text required; see page 148 scene. Throughout the course, you complete a series of kkk exercises which serve as the basis for your script out- M Course held during daytime hours line, a prose description of your screenplay. The course Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Writers’ Program 141 goal is to learn how to write effective, compelling scenes Writing the First Screenplay III m and executive produced dramatic television series for Reg# W9392B and to create a 4-5 page outline which clearly delineates X 440C Film & Television 3 units Fox, CBS, Pax, and Showtime, and her latest project is Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 your script’s beginning, middle, and end. The ability to The third in a 4-part sequence in writing a feature film Gemini Division, a dramatic series for the Internet. Jan 25-Mar 28 write an effective outline is a critical skill for the profes- screenplay, this course focuses on what many regard Beverly Gray, PhD, screenwriter, author, and former sional screenwriter, serves as the basis for most pitches as the greatest challenge facing screenwriters: writing development executive who oversaw the development and is required for admission into X 440B Writing the the second act. As you engage in writing these crucial Feature Film Writing: of 170 feature films at Concorde-New Horizons Pic- First Screenplay II. For technical requirements see 60 pages, you refine your story outline; flesh out main Intermediate Courses tures. Dr. Gray has authored biographies of directors page 4. Course may be taken as a certificate core and secondary characters; continue to develop the art Ron Howard and Roger Corman. requirement. Enrollment limited to 15 students. of the scene as it pertains to type, choice, structure, Intermediate Feature Film I m Reg# W9344B and placement; and begin to discover each character’s X 431.101 Film & Television 3 units Feature Film Writing: Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 unique voice. You also learn the habits you need to Designed for writers with a solid grasp of the basic Jan 18-Mar 21 sustain the work of writing a screenplay. The goal is to principles of feature-length scriptwriting and who have Advanced Course Michael W. Barlow, producer and screenwriter; WGA write Act II. May be repeated for credit. For technical written at least 1 full screenplay, this workshop guides member who, as an executive at Paramount Classics, requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: X 440A Writing you to launch and make significant headway on a new Advanced Screenwriting: oversaw Black Snake Moan and Mad Hot Ballroom. Mr. the First Screenplay I and X 440B Writing the First project. You may work in a genre you have already A Screenplay Workshop m Barlow worked as vice president of production at vari- Screenplay II. Students must bring their beat sheets or tackled, but are also encouraged to challenge yourself X 432.21 Film & Television 3 units ous major studios, including Orion Pictures (No Way treatments and Act I to the first class meeting and be by choosing a different one in order to expand your This course is for screenwriters who want to start or Out, House of Games, and Back to School). His writing prepared to write. Course may be taken as a certificate spec portfolio and focus on craft apart from stylistic are in the midst of writing an original screenplay. Par- credits include the miniseries Kidnapped and the ABC core requirement. Enrollment limited to 15 students. preferences. The goal is to develop a strong premise ticipants must be committed to doing a lot of writing as drama Family. Reg# W9353B that sustains your entire script, create and refine the well as reading and critiquing their peers’ pages. Active Reg# W9347B Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 story outline, and write Act I. Brief lectures on craft class participation is mandatory. Lecture topics, each Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 Jan 25-Mar 28 issues based on the demands of the participants’ work oriented toward the pragmatics of screenwriting, are Jan 25-Mar 28 William Hasley, screenwriter; WGA member who has supplement the workshop. For technical requirements chosen in response to issues and questions which arise Ronald Raley, screenwriter; WGA member whose sold feature scripts to 20th Century Fox, Universal, and see page 4. Prerequisite: X 440A Writing the First on the discussion boards or in the script pages the credits include Edge of Sanity; Dorian; Cupid and Cate; Warner Bros. Mr. Hasley’s television credits include Screenplay I, X 440B Writing the First Screenplay II, participants submit. Those considering this course The Runaway; and The Locket, for which he received a Swift Justice; Ghost Stories; Murder, She Wrote; Kung X 440C Writing the First Screenplay III, and X 440D should have completed at least two original screen- Camie Award. Mr. Raley has worked as a development Fu; Young Riders; and Highway to Heaven. He also has Writing the First Screenplay IV, or departmental plays, be currently working with a strong story concept, executive for Cannon Pictures and Hallmark Hall of written pilots for Castle Rock, Columbia, Universal, and approval. Course may be taken as a certificate core and be committed to writing the best possible script. Fame Productions, and has developed screenplays for Warner Bros. and is a published author. requirement. Enrollment limited to 15 students. For technical requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: Glenn Close, Vanessa Redgrave, Chuck Norris, Anthony Reg# W9358B Script submittal required; for instructions see page 135. Perkins, Malcolm McDowell, and others. Writing the First Screenplay IV m Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 Enrollment limited to 12 students. Reg# W9346B X 440D Film & Television 3 units Jan 25-Mar 28 Reg# W9395B Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 In the last in a 4-part sequence in writing a feature film Martin Copeland, PhD, award-winning screenwriter Fee: $650 Jan 25-Mar 28 screenplay, you reach FADE OUT. In the process of writing who has written feature films in both the U.S. and Jan 25-Mar 28 Ernie Contreras, screenwriter; WGA member whose Act III, you hone in on structuring conversations; explore Europe, including Texas Rangers (Miramax), Handyman Chrysanthy Balis, MPW, screenwriter; WGA member credits include the HBO drama Walkout and the feature how to maximize your story’s visual implications; deepen (Buena Vista International co-production), The Heavenly whose credits include the Paramount release Asylum. films Fairy Tale: A True Story (Paramount) and The scene writing skills; assemble scenes to form powerful Kid, and The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Ms. Balis has projects in development with CBS, USA Pagemaster (20th Century Fox). Mr. Contreras has sequences; ensure your script’s central conflict is Networks, Flodyco Productions, and has previously written and developed scripts for Walt Disney, Sony, resolved; and work on theme and imagery. Also covered Intermediate Feature Film II m written an adapted screenplay for the Zanuck ­ Universal, Fox Searchlight, Paramount, DreamWorks, are revision techniques and the business aspects of X 431.102 Film & Television 3 units Company/Fox 2000 and a pilot for HBO. She received TNT, and Starz/Encore. feature film writing. The goal is to complete writing your Designed for those who already have at least 1 screen- the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in first feature film script. For technical requirements see play, a story outline, and Act One of their next script in Screenwriting (Online), 2007. Writing the First Screenplay II m page 4. Prerequisite: X 440A Writing the First Screenplay I, hand, this workshop guides you to complete your proj- X 440B Film & Television 3 units X 440B Writing the First Screenplay II, and X 440C ect. After a review of your outline and pages, you focus Television Writing: This second in a 4-part sequence in writing a feature ­Writing the First Screenplay III. Students must submit on developing a successful second and third act, with film script has you hit the ground running. You begin by their beat sheets or treatments and Acts I and II to the special attention given to structure, character develop- Beginning Courses pitching your story based on your outline and revise it first class meeting and be prepared to write. Course may ment, emotional content, and cinematic style. You also to make sure the premise can carry the entire movie. be taken as a certificate core requirement. Enrollment acquire self-editing techniques essential for the profes- Beginning Writing for the Armed with a workable outline, you then flesh it out into limited to 15 students. sional writer. This is not a rewrite course; students must 1-Hour Spec Drama: Building the either a beat sheet or treatment (at the instructor’s Reg# W9354B be working toward the completion of a feature-length Story and the Outline m discretion) and begin writing your screenplay. Personal- Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 script and have their treatment or outline and approxi- X 430.4 Film & Television 3 units ized feedback along with mini-lectures on key craft Jan 25-Mar 28 mately 30-50 pages of their script in hand. For technical Modeled directly on how writers write in the real world of points, including character development, story structure, Andrew Osborne, MA, screenwriter; WGA member requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: X 430.101 1-hour dramas, this course focuses on what is most and conflict, help you to meet the course goal, which whose indie film credits include the Sundance Film Intermediate Feature Film I, or equivalent, or consent of central to creating a strong script as well as the largest is to write Act I (approximately 30 pages). May be Festival premiere On_Line, the Tribeca Film Festival instructor. Course may be taken as a certificate core piece (40%) of the writer’s deal with any show: the story repeated for credit. For technical requirements see premiere The F Word, and his directorial debut Apoca- requirement. Enrollment limited to 15 students. and outline. The course goal is for you to master the page 4. Prerequisite: X 440A Writing the First Screen- lypse Bop. Mr. Osborne received an Emmy Award for Reg# W9359B process of constructing an airtight story and detailed play I. Students must bring a four-to-five-page outline the Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab. He has developed Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 outline so that you are ready to write a script for any they created in Writing the First Screenplay I to first projects for Warner Bros., HBO, MTV, and Orion. Jan 25-Mar 28 current show as quickly and expertly as possible. The class meeting and be prepared to pitch it. Course may Ernie Contreras, screenwriter; WGA member whose steps you take include pitching a variety of stories, choos- be taken as a certificate core requirement. Enrollment Writing the Romantic Comedy m credits include the HBO drama Walkout and the feature ing the best story for your spec script, mapping it out from limited to 15 students. X 430.43JZ Film & Television 3 units films Fairy Tale: A True Story (Paramount) and The beginning to end, and writing a strong outline in proper Reg# W9351B The romantic comedy is one of the most beloved Pagemaster (20th Century Fox). Mr. Contreras has script format. In the process, you learn how to identify and Through Dec 18: $529 / After: $579 genres in film. In this course, you learn the key ele- written and developed scripts for Walt Disney, Sony, capture the tone, characters, dialogue, and themes of any Jan 18-Mar 21 ments that separate romantic comedy from other film Universal, Fox Searchlight, Paramount, DreamWorks, 1-hour drama series—the key to breaking in and staying John Doolittle, MFA, screenwriter; WGA member who genres, including its particular dramatic structure; TNT, and Starz/Encore. in the field. This course also explores the various genres has written feature film and television projects for Para- character qualities of its romantic hero and heroine; (police procedurals, medical, legal, etc.) and their specific mount, Walt Disney Studios, Amblin Entertainment, and its unique “world” in which timeless love does Intermediate Rewriting Workshop m rules; what’s popular in the current marketplace; and how Miramax, Nickelodeon, and Castle Rock. Mr. Doolittle exist, there’s someone out there for everyone, and true X 431.57 Film & Television 3 units to work within the special requirements of time-slots, adapted Infinite Jest for HBO, did a production rewrite love conquers all. In addition, you look at the different Writing is rewriting and rewriting is a craft all its own. outlet, and styles (for example, single-character drama on the Academy Award-nominated screenplay, The styles of romantic comedy: the ensemble, period piece, Designed for those with a solid grasp of the basic versus ensemble cast). For technical requirements see Player, and currently is working on a TNT film to be chick flick, animated, satire, the “bromance,” and, of principles of feature-length screenwriting and who have page 4. Course may be taken as a certificate core directed by Robert Towne. course, the classic “boy meets girl.” You craft weekly written at least two complete screenplays, this work- requirement. Enrollment limited to 15 students. All student shop is the next and most important step. This course projects must focus on current shows; no pilots. Reg# W9352B pages of your own script, receive group and instructor takes you through the process of finding strategies that Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 feedback, and come away from the course with a solid Reg# W9408B Jan 25-Mar 28 romantic comedy idea and beat sheet. For technical bring your script to its fullest potential, honing its Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 premise, fleshing out characters, deepening conflicts, Michael Janover, screenwriter; WGA member, who wrote requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: X 440 Writing Jan 25-Mar 28 the feature films The Philadelphia Experiment and Hardly the First Screenplay I or departmental approval. Course and fine-tuning structure, dialogue, tone, and action. Erica Byrne, screenwriter; WGA member whose credits Working, as well as the Mr. Boogedy horror/comedy TV may be taken as a certificate elective. Enrollment You receive personal feedback and guidance on your include episodes of La Femme Nikita; Nowhere Man; movies for Disney. Mr. Janover’s other projects include a limited to 15 students. script as well as insight into how to market it. The Silk Stalkings; Hunter; Knots Landing; and Walker, Texas horror/comedy script for Cheech and Chong and a horror Reg# W9384B course goal is to complete a rewrite of your feature- Ranger. Ms. Byrne has served as a staff writer and has pilot for Aaron Spelling Productions. Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 length script. For technical requirements see page 4. written many produced docudramas as well as Jan 25-Mar 28 Prerequisite: X 431.101 Intermediate Feature Film I and ­animated scripts. She received the UCLA Extension Jacqueline Zambrano, writer/producer; WGA member X 431.102 Intermediate Feature Film II; or equivalent. Outstanding Instructor Award in Screenwriting, 1997. who wrote the feature film In the Mix. Ms. Zambrano Enrollment limited to 15 students. has written for numerous shows, including CSI: Crime kkk Scene Investigation and Star Trek. She also has created 142 Writers’ Program Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Reg# W9417B Writing the First Screenplay III Television Writing: Feature Film Writing Through Dec 24: $419 / After: $459 X 440C Film & Television 3 units Intermediate Courses UCLA: 2325 School of Public Affairs Bldg. The third in a 4-part sequence in writing a feature film Beginning Courses Tue 7-10pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs screenplay, this course focuses on what many regard as Writing the Spec Pilot m No refund after Jan 31. the greatest challenge facing screenwriters: writing the X 431.42 Film & Television 3 units Laurence Rosenthal, independent producer and second act. As you engage in writing these crucial 60 Innovative television series ideas now come from new Writing the First Screenplay I development executive; WGA member who, as an pages, you refine your story outline; flesh out main and X 440A Film & Television 3 units as well as established writers, and a strong spec pilot executive at Woods Entertainment, supervised the secondary characters; continue to develop the art of the The first in a 4-part sequence designed to take you script sets you apart from those who only work within development of Scream, Beautiful Girls, Things to Do in scene as it pertains to type, choice, structure, and place- through the full process of writing a feature film screen- the boundaries of existing shows. This course takes you Denver When You’re Dead, Copland, and Citizen Ruth. ment; and begin to discover each character’s unique voice. play, this course grounds you in the key craft elements through the process of creating and writing a pilot script Mr. Rosenthal also oversaw development of the Show- You also learn the habits you need to sustain the work of of story structure, plot, scene development, character, from beginning to rough first draft. You develop a viable time original series Beggars and Choosers. writing a screenplay. The goal is to write Act II. May be theme, genre, and dialogue, and shows you how they series concept, create unique and memorable charac- Reg# W9411B repeated for credit. Prerequisite: X 440A Writing the First work together to grip an audience’s emotions. You learn ters with an original execution, write the pilot script, Through Dec 25: $419 / After: $459 Screenplay I and X 440B Writing the First Screenplay II. how to create and evaluate story ideas; explore how explore the possible markets for it, and are encouraged UCLA: A46 Humanities Bldg. Students must bring their beat sheets or treatments and characters’ inner wants and immediate goals shape to be as fresh and original as possible. Your series can Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs Act I to the first class meeting and be prepared to write. and drive a screenplay’s action; see what constitutes be a comedy or drama; single camera, multiple camera, No refund after Feb 1. Course may be taken as a certificate core requirement. compelling plots and subplots; and learn how to con- or animation; designed for traditional media or the latest Ron Suppa, writer-producer; WGA member who has Enrollment limited to 16 students. Internet access required struct a scene. Throughout the course, you complete a new media or any combination thereof—the choice is produced and/or written 10 feature films, including to retrieve course materials. series of exercises which serve as the basis for your yours. For technical requirements see page 4. Prereq- Paradise Alley and Riding the Edge. Mr. Suppa is the script outline, a prose description of your screenplay. Reg# W9437B uisite: Students must have completed At least 1 original author of Real Screenwriting: Strategies and Stories The course goal is to learn how to write effective, Through Dec 25: $525 / After: $575 feature-length screenplay or television spec script. from the Trenches. He received the UCLA Extension compelling scenes and to create a 4-5 page outline UCLA: 1284 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Course may be taken as a certificate core requirement Outstanding Instructor Award in Screenwriting, 1991. Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs or elective. Enrollment limited to 15 students. which clearly delineates your script’s beginning, middle, and end. The ability to write an effective outline is a No refund after Feb 1. Reg# W9409B critical skill for the professional screenwriter, serves as Writing the First Screenplay II Andrew Guerdat, writer-producer; WGA member who Through Dec 25: $529 / After: $579 the basis for most pitches and is required for admission X 440B Film & Television 3 units has sold feature screenplays to 20th Century Fox, Jan 25-Mar 28 into X 440B Writing the First Screenplay II. Course may This second in a 4-part sequence in writing a feature MGM, Walt Disney Studios, Village Roadshow Produc- Bill Taub, screenwriter; WGA and WGC member who has be taken as a certificate core requirement. Enrollment film script has you hit the ground running. You begin by tions/Warner Bros., Disney Sunday Movie, and NBC. Mr. written produced pilots for Relic Hunter, Friday the 13th: limited to 20 students. Internet access required to pitching your story based on your outline and revising it Guerdat’s play Red Remembers recently premiered at The Series, Mission Genesis, The Odyssey, and Dark retrieve course materials. & to make sure the premise can carry the entire movie. the Berkshire Theater Festival, and he was the recipient Shadows. Mr. Taub recently aired his web series Psycho Armed with a workable outline, you then flesh it out into of the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in Babble for Strike TV and is now rewriting the animated Reg# W9413B either a beat sheet or treatment (at the instructor’s Screenwriting, 2007. feature Jumping Green Things for Assorted Nuts. He also Through Dec 9: $419 / After: $459 discretion) and begin writing your screenplay. Personal- has written pilots for NBC and Paramount. UCLA: 1270 School of Public Affairs Bldg. ized feedback along with mini-lectures on key craft Mon 7-10pm, Jan 9-Mar 26, 10 mtgs Writing the First Screenplay IV points, including character development, story structure, X 440D Film & Television 3 units (no mtg 1/16 & 2/20) and conflict, help you to meet the course goal, which is No refund after Jan 23. In the last in a 4-part sequence in writing a feature film to write Act I (appx. 30 pages). May be repeated for screenplay, you reach FADE OUT. In the process of writing Donald H. Hewitt, screenwriter; WGA member whose credit. Prerequisite: X 440A Writing the First Screenplay Act III, you hone in on structuring conversations; explore Screenwriting feature film credits include the English-language I. Students must bring the 4-5-page outline they created screenplay for Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film how to maximize your story’s visual implications; deepen Choose the right course for you. For advise- in Writing the First Screenplay I to first class and be scene writing skills; assemble scenes to form powerful Spirited Away, as well as My Neighbor Totoro, and the prepared to pitch it. Course may be taken as a certificate ment on screenwriting courses call Chae Ko Oscar-nominated Howl’s Moving Castle. Mr. Hewitt has sequences; ensure your script’s central conflict is core requirement. Enrollment limited to 20 students. resolved; and work on theme and imagery. Also covered at (310) 206-2612 or Jeff Bonnett at (310) written for Pixar, Working Title, Miramax, New Line, and Internet access required to retrieve course materials. 206-1542. Disney. He currently is adapting the novel The Girls’ are revision techniques and the business aspects of Guide to Witchcraft into a movie for ABC Family. Reg# W9435B feature film writing. The goal is to complete writing your first feature film script. Prerequisite: X 440A Writing the Many screenwriting courses also are offered Through Dec 14: $419 / After: $459 Reg# W9423B UCLA: 1264 School of Public Affairs Bldg. First Screenplay I, X 440B Writing the First Screenplay II, online; see page 140. Through Dec 9: $419 / After: $459 ✷✷Sat 10am-1pm, Jan 14-Mar 17, 10 mtgs and X 440C Writing the First Screenplay III. Students Downtown Los Angeles: 261 S. Figueroa St., No refund after Jan 20. must bring their beat sheets or treatments and Acts I and Figueroa Courtyard, Suite 100W, Tim Curnen, MFA, screenwriter; WGA member whose II to the first class meeting and be prepared to write. Business of Screenwriting Classroom 101B produced credits include the feature films Forbidden Course may be taken as a certificate core requirement. Mon 7-10pm, Jan 9-Mar 26, 10 mtgs World and Ghost Warrior. Mr. Curnen has written Enrollment limited to 16 students. Internet access Be Savvy: The Business of Being a (no mtg 1/16 & 2/20) screenplays for Interscope, New World Pictures, 20th required to retrieve course materials. Screenwriter No refund after Jan 23. Century Fox, Universal, and Walt Disney Productions, Kim Krizan, Academy-Award nominated screenwriter, Reg# W9438B X 431.34 Film & Television 2.5 units as well as an award-winning video game for Digital Through Dec 25: $525 / After: $575 Designed for open-minded, disciplined students who film and stage actor; WGA member who co-wrote Pictures. He received the UCLA Extension Outstanding Before Sunrise and Before Sunset with director Richard UCLA: 1323 School of Public Affairs Bldg. have written At least 1 feature-length screenplay, this Instructor Award in Screenwriting, 2008. Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs course teaches you how to establish and build a writing Linklater. Ms. Krizan has acted in several films, includ- ing Waking Life, Dazed and Confused, and Slacker. Her Reg# W9425B No refund after Feb 1. career in original ways. Award-winning screenwriter Through Dec 18: $419 / After: $459 Jon Bernstein, screenwriter, WGA member who wrote Antwone Fisher starts from the belief that screenwriters first full-length comic book, Zombie Tales: 2061, was recently published by Boom! Studios. UCLA: A26 Humanities Bldg. Meet the Robinsons, which won a Heartland Film need to understand and accept how the industry works, Wed 7-10pm, Jan 18-Mar 21, 10 mtgs Award. Mr. Bernstein also wrote the screenplays Ring- and then focus on ways to develop sustainable artistic Reg# W9412B No refund after Jan 25. master and Beautiful, starring Minnie Driver, and is a skills, personal connections, and business relationships. Through Dec 19: $419 / After: $459 Claudia Grazioso, MFA, screenwriter; WGA member contributing writer to Disney’s Tangled and Universal’s You learn and “practice” strategies to get in and stay in UCLA: 1278 School of Public Affairs Bldg. whose credits include Are We There Yet?, starring Ice The Little Engine That Could (2011). His plays include the business, including how to behave and exert your Thu 7-10pm, Jan 19-Mar 22, 10 mtgs Cube and Nia Long, and Bring It On Again. Ms. Grazioso Blunders and Showcase! (LA Weekly Pick of the Week). force of personality in a chameleon-like way; how to No refund after Jan 26. has written several pilots for ABC and Fox, including get to know actors, comics, and other writers who can Michael Weiss, screenwriter; WGA member; former Women in Law. She currently is writing a script for Horror and Fantasy Screenwriting advance your project; how to get a realistic grasp on vice president of production for Miramax Films whose Disney with Walt Becker attached to produce, as well Workshop the role and lifespan of the client-agent relationship; produced credits include Journey to the Center of the as a television pilot for HBO. how to maintain contact with studios even after you Earth and I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. X 430.895 Film & Television 3 units haven’t gotten the job; and how to remain valuable to Mr. Weiss has sold original material and been hired on Reg# W9427B Designed to help you develop your best horror or fantasy the production process after you’ve turned in the script. assignment by such studios as Warner Bros., Sony, New Through Dec 18: $419 / After: $459 screenplay ever, this course begins with an overview of Course may be taken as a certificate elective. Enroll- Line, MGM, and Cartoon Network. Downtown Los Angeles: 261 S. Figueroa St., both genres and their main structural elements. The first ment limited to 20 students. Figueroa Courtyard, Suite 100W, half of the course explores the horror story through a Reg# W9424B Classroom 101B series of darkly humorous interactive workshops, which Reg# W9516B Through Dec 21: $419 / After: $459 Wed 7-10pm, Jan 18-Mar 21, 10 mtgs includes learning how to take your own personal fears Through Dec 31: $429 / After: $469 UCLA: 2333 School of Public Affairs Bldg. No refund after Jan 25. and use them to develop your storyline and to transform ✷✷ UCLA: 3115 Rolfe Hall Sat 10am-1pm, Jan 21-Mar 24, 10 mtgs Tony Vitale, writer-director; WGA member who wrote them into a powerful nemesis for your hero. The goal is Tue 7-10pm, Jan 31-Mar 20, 8 mtgs No refund after Jan 27. and directed the Sundance Film Festival feature Kiss to create a 5-minute movie pitch. The second half of the No refund after Feb 7. David Polsky, screenwriter, WGA member whose feature Me, Guido as well as Jungle Juice, starring Christopher course is devoted to fantasy, with students working Antwone Fisher, screenwriter, producer, and author film credits include Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2. Mr. Walken. Mr. Vitale directed Very Mean Men, starring toward the goal of creating a 5-minute fantasy movie whose screenplay credits include Antwone Fisher, star- Polsky also has written for Singled Out, South Park, Oscar winner Martin Landau, and One Last Ride, for pitch. You learn the rules of building a fantasy world, and ring Denzel Washington and nominated for a WGA Cedric the Entertainer Presents, and Frank TV, as well as executive producer Ang Lee. He co-created the CBS create personal versions of heaven and hell as well as Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the coming-of- the animated shows The Class of 3000 and Disney’s The sitcom Some of My Best Friends with writer-producer systems of magic. You leave the workshop ready to take age drama ATL, nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Buzz on Maggie, on which he served as creator and Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives). your horror and fantasy “dark spawn” into the world. Mr. Fisher is the author of the bestselling memoir executive producer. He has also sold pilots to Fox, CBS, Course may be taken as a certificate elective. Enrollment Finding Fish. Castle Rock Entertainment, and Nickelodeon. limited to 20 students. Internet access required to kkk retrieve course materials. kkk Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Writers’ Program 143

Reg# W9515B Through Dec 24: $419 / After: $459 Intermediate Courses UCLA: 122 Haines Hall Tue 7-10pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs Don’t Just Take Intermediate Feature Film I No refund after Jan 31. X 431.101 Film & Television 3 units Larry Wilson, screenwriter, director and producer; WGA Designed for writers with a solid grasp of the basic member whose feature film credits include Beetlejuice, Our Word for It! principles of feature-length scriptwriting and who have The Addams Family, and The Little Vampire. Mr. ­Wilson’s written at least 1 full screenplay, this workshop guides you to launch and make significant headway on a new television credits include Tales from the Crypt, The Year “ I tell all fellow writers about the magic of Without a Santa Claus, and Aliens for Breakfast. He project. You may work in a genre you have already previously worked as a story analyst for Columbia, the Writers Studio and how supercharged it tackled, but are also encouraged to challenge yourself Warner Bros., Paramount, and Universal. is. Thank you for offering this wonderful by choosing a different one in order to expand your spec ­program. Without it, I would be stuck in a portfolio and focus on craft apart from stylistic prefer- Visual Storytelling for the Big Screen dead end job and missing out on the wonderful ences. The goal is to develop a strong premise that sustains your entire script, create and refine the story X 491.899 Film & Television 3 units world of writing!” Film is first and foremost a visual medium. As such, a outline, and write Act One. Brief lectures on craft issues fully realized screenplay exhibits its story through —Christine Tagawa, Santa Monica, CA based on the demands of the participants’ work supple- images woven into its dramatic structure. This work- 2011 Writers Studio participant ment the workshop. Prerequisite: X 440A Writing the shop teaches you concrete techniques for showing your First Screenplay I, X 440B Writing the First Screenplay II, story, including identifying and developing its visual 2012 Writers Studio X 440C Writing the First Screenplay III, and X 440D implications, creating and exploiting the magic of visual Writing the First Screenplay IV, or equivalent, or consent discovery that a screenplay can offer, and crafting high- Thu-Sun, Feb 9-12 of instructor. Course may be taken as a certificate core requirement. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Internet quality images that carry emotional impact and rele- For information see pages 130-132. vance. In order to master these techniques, you write access required to retrieve course materials. scenes, (either new or rewritten from your own work) Reg# W9459B that focus on forms of the visual storytelling: discovery, Through Dec 24: $525 / After: $575 withholding, law of contradiction, location as metaphor, Christine Tagawa. UCLA: 110 Haines Hall and flow of time and location. The course goal is to Tue 7-10pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs write the first act or rewrite an existing first act of your No refund after Jan 31. screenplay using tools learned from the course. For Dan Vining, screenwriter and novelist; WGA member technical requirements see page 4. Prerequisite: whose feature film credits include Black Dog for X 440A Writing the First Screenplay I or equivalent. ­Universal Pictures and Plain Clothes for Paramount. Course may be taken as a certificate elective. Enroll- Mr. Vining has written screenplays for Walt Disney ment limited to 20 students. Internet access required Congratulations! Pictures, MGM, Paramount, and Showtime. His novels to retrieve course materials. include The Quick; The Next; and his latest, Among the Reg# W9452B 2011 UCLA Extension Feature Film & Living (Penguin-Putnam). Through Dec 24: $419 / After: $459 UCLA: A06 Haines Hall Television Writing Competition Winners Intermediate Feature Film II Tue 7-10pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs X 431.102 Film & Television 3 units No refund after Jan 31. Feature Film Scripts Television Scripts Designed for those who have already at least 1 screen- play and have a story outline and Act One of their next Bill Boyle, screenwriter, director, producer whose 1st Place: 1st Place: writer-producer credits include Now and Forever and script in hand, this workshop guides you to complete Sealed with a Kiss. Mr. Boyle’s work has received an Greg Sullivan, Erin’s Voice (Drama) Erika Mcpherson, Every Other your project. After a review of your outline and pages, Weekend (Half-Hour Comedy Pilot) you focus on developing a successful second and third ACTRA nomination, as well as honors at the Palm 2nd Place: Springs Festival and Chicago Film Festival. He has act, with special attention given to structure, character previously lectured at Praxis Centre for Screenwriters Ana Maria Montoya, Hanging 2nd Place: development, emotional content, and cinematic style. and Vancouver Film School. Moon (Drama/Coming of Age) Tricia Smith, It’s Always Sunny in You also acquire self-editing techniques essential for Philadelphia: “The Gang Gets Kid- the professional writer. For technical requirements see 3rd Place: Screenwriting on the napped” (Half-Hour Comedy Spec) page 4. This is not a rewrite course; students must be Write Side of the Brain Robert Dorian, Dead of Winter working toward the completion of a feature-length X 430.23 Film & Television 3 units (Supernatural Thriller) 3rd Place: script and have their treatment or outline and approxi- mately 30-to-50 pages of their script in hand. Prereq- Use ALL of your brain while screenwriting! Film is the Duke Cullen, Dexter: “The Dark is Judges uisite: X 431.101 Intermediate Feature Film I, or art form that encompasses all the other arts, and this Rising” (One-Hour Drama Spec) challenging but safe course takes hands-on lessons Rick Berg, Code Entertainment equivalent, or consent of instructor. Course may be from the visual and performing arts and applies them taken as a certificate core requirement. Enrollment Robert Mitas, Further Films Judges limited to 16 students. Internet access required to creatively to screenwriting. With a sprinkling of Jungian Zadoc Angell, Artist International typology, theater improv, journaling techniques, and Chris Sablan, Original Artists retrieve course materials. Adam Fratto, Independent Producer Reg# W9460B even drawing (no experience necessary), and featuring Mentors weekly readings of student scene work by professional Tom Moore, Writer/Producer Through Dec 18: $525 / After: $575 actors, this unique experiential course will have you Chrysanthy Balis UCLA: A152 Bunche Hall writing daily and turning in scenes weekly. This Steve Mazur Mentors Wed 7-10pm, Jan 18-Mar 28, 10 mtgs approach is aimed at pushing you to your next level, Phil Kellard (no mtg 2/8) rekindling your enthusiasm, and opening new doorways John Schimmel No refund after Jan 25. into screenwriting. Designed for writers from the Alan Kirschenbaum Cindy Davis Hewitt, MFA, screenwriter; WGA member advanced beginner to the seasoned pro; a basic knowl- Matt Witten whose feature film credits include the English-language edge of screenplay formatting is required. Prerequisite: screenplay for Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film X 440A Writing the First Screenplay I or consent of Spirited Away, as well as My Neighbor Totoro, and Howl’s instructor. Course may be taken as a certificate elective. The Top 3 Winners of Each 2012 Competition Moving Castle. Ms. Hewitt has written for Pixar, Working Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet access Title, Miramax, and Disney. She currently is writing the Category Receive: required to retrieve course materials. & If you are an aspiring screenwriter animated feature film Pigeon: Impossible for Fox. Reg# W9439B Cash prizes of $1,000 (1st Place), or television writer who has com- Through Dec 25: $455 / After: $500 $500 (2nd Place), and $250 pleted 3 feature film writing Westwood: 212 Extension Lindbrook Center (3rd Place) courses or 2 television writing Wed 7-10pm, Jan 25-Mar 28, 10 mtgs No refund after Feb 1. A guaranteed read by an agent pro- courses in the Writers’ Program Bonnie MacBird, BA (music), MA (film), 3-time Emmy ducer, and/or creative executive between March 2010 and March Award-winning producer, former Universal feature film 2012, you may be eligible to enter A one-on-one script consultation development executive, screenwriter (Tron), playwright, the 2012 Feature Film & Television ($700 value) with a professional president of Creative Licensing/Skybird Pictures, and Writing Competition. SAG actor screenwriter prior to the final judging Submission Deadline Announcements to the trades, stu- Mar 1, 2012 at 4pm, PST. dios, and production companies Winners are notified in September. For details call (310) 825-9415. 144 Writers’ Program Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Rewrite Toolbox: Professionally Polishing Your Finished Beginning Writing for Intermediate Workshop Advanced Courses Script: Advanced Workshop the Half-Hour Spec Comedy: X 431.48 Film & Television 3 units X 432.58 Film & Television 2 units Instructions for Submitting Writing Samples Building the Story and the Outline Writing a first draft is the “dating” phase of creating a The difference between a first draft and a winning spec to Advanced-Level Screenwriting Courses: X 430.6 Film & Television 3 units polished, marketable screenplay; the long and complex sale is the level of professional, practical feedback you This course teaches you how to create an airtight story process of revising it requires the commitment of a Email your submission to the Writers’ Program receive. But how do you gain this kind of access? and outline—the absolute critical first step in writing a marriage between you and your material. Designed for by the deadline. Submissions sent after the deadline Instructor Victoria Wisdom, who has represented multiple strong half-hour comedy spec script and a process that dedicated writers with a full draft feature film script and may not be accepted. Deadlines are subject to change. Academy Award-winning writers, provides solid support makes writing your script much easier, faster, and more the willingness to acquire rewriting tools through weekly Contact the Writers’ Program by phone at (310) for this development process. In this course, you put the successful. You begin by learning how to pinpoint what assignments and to give active, focused feedback on 825‑9415 for the most up-to-date information. final polishing touches on your finished screenplay, makes any half-hour comedy show tick, studying the peers’ work, this course gives you the skills to assess strengthening structure, characters, and dialogue, as Winter quarter submission deadline is December 5. appeal and quirkiness of the main characters and the what works and doesn’t in your script. You acquire a well as honing the clarity of your original idea. The unique spin shows put on their stories. You then focus toolbox of practical techniques for examining your own Submissions for screenwriting courses must be classroom is designed to resemble a professional story on your own script for a current show, finding the story work objectively and diagnosing its strengths and sent via email, unless otherwise instructed. meeting where ideas are vetted, shared, and evolved to and identifying the comedy in it, learning how to pitch problems; prepare a strategy for making corrections; Submit as .RTF or .PDF to [email protected]; support the writer’s process. Take the time to finish your it, and creating a workable outline from which to write. and, once you determine the relationship is worth the note the instructor name and course title in the subject script at a more sophisticated level and see the results Instruction also covers the “need to know” business effort, jump into the rewriting process. The course goal line. Samples are not returned. Do not send originals. of your new insights. Prerequisite: X 432.58 Profession- aspects of the half-hour show, such as the current use is to complete a minimum of 50 pages of rewritten Include a cover letter with your name, address, email ally Polishing Your Finished Script: Advanced Workshop of spec scripts to get jobs and the basics of how a material. Prerequisite: X 431.101 Intermediate Feature address, and phone number, and a brief description of or submit a 1-page, 3-act, three-paragraph synopsis, comedy writer works on staff, how freelance writers Film I and X 431.102 Intermediate Feature Film II, or your sample. If you are submitting to more than 1 course, along with the first 30 pages of the screenplay. This move onto staff, how a writing staff is structured, and equivalent, or consent of instructor. Course may be indicate in your cover letter your order of preference. course requires a hard copy submission; for instructions how writers work collaboratively “in the room.” All taken as a certificate core requirement or elective. on submitting scripts see this page. Enrollment limited student projects must focus on current shows; no Enrollment limited to 16 students. Internet access If the course requires a hard copy submission, mail your to 12 students. Visitors not permitted. Internet access pilots. Course may be taken as a certificate core required to retrieve course materials. script to the course instructor, c/o Writers’ Program, required to retrieve course materials. requirement. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Internet 10995 Le Conte Avenue, Rm. 440, Los Angeles, CA Reg# W9464B Reg# W9468B access required to retrieve course materials. 90024-1333. Through Dec 24: $525 / After: $575 Fee: $499 Reg# W9473B UCLA: 161 Dodd Hall Do not attempt to register for advanced-level courses UCLA: 122 Haines Hall Through Dec 17: $419 / After: $459 Tue 7-10pm, Jan 24-Mar 27, 10 mtgs until you receive notification of acceptance from the Thu 7-10pm, Jan 19-Mar 8, 8 mtgs UCLA: A24 Haines Hall No refund after Jan 31. Writers’ Program. All applicants are notified of their No refund after Jan 12. Tue 7-10pm, Jan 17-Mar 20, 10 mtgs Quinton Peeples, screenwriter-director; WGA member status within 10 working days after the deadline— Victoria Wisdom, manager/producer and former liter- No refund after Jan 24. who directed Joyride starring Tobey Maguire and Beni- accepted students can enroll at this time. If you do not ary agent at ICM, who represented the Academy Award- Barry Vigon, MFA; writer-producer; WGA member who cio Del Toro. Mr. Peeples was a writer/co-producer for receive an email confirmation that your submission has winning careers of Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual served as a supervising producer on Veronica’s Closet, ABC’s Flashforward. His television credits also include been received, please contact the Writers’ Program Suspects), Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond), and as well as a co-executive producer on Malcolm & Eddie The Moving of Sophia Myles, The Secret Path, and office at (310) 825-9415 or [email protected]. directors Bryan Singer (X-Men) and Lone Scherfig (An and Martin, and a producer on Something Wilder. Mr. Heart Full of Rain, and he currently is developing a pilot The Writers’ Program is not responsible for submissions Education). Ms. Wisdom also was a partner at Becsey Vigon has also written for series, including Soap, Rose- with Warner Horzon. lost due to internet or mechanical failure. Full payment Wisdom Kalajian Agency (BWK) and represented the anne, and Fame, and has created pilots for CBS, NBC, of course fees are due upon acceptance. No comments creator of the hit CBS drama series Criminal Minds. ABC, and The Disney Channel. New Course or critiques are provided on student submissions. Writing One-of-a-Kind Characters: The selection process for advanced courses is competi- The Anatomy of a Pilot Practical Tips and Techniques tive and therefore these courses carry stricter refund Television Writing X 431.999 Film & Television 3 units X 438.88 Film & Television 3 units policies than other Writers’ Program courses. Please A new television show has exactly one shot at survival: No matter how solid your story or plot, your screenplay note that the final refund date for any advanced course Beginning Courses its pilot episode. If the viewer isn’t grabbed in the first needs to be populated with unique, original, and com- is one week prior to its start date. While waiting for hour, they’re gone forever. But what is a pilot? How is it different from all other forms of screenwriting? What pelling characters in order to get your writing noticed permission to enroll, a student may enroll in a second Beginning Writing for the and secure your place in the industry. This course Writers’ Program course of his or her choice. If a stu- makes a good one work and a bad one fail? And how teaches you to bring out the humor, pathos, and original- dent is subsequently granted permission to enroll in an 1-Hour Spec Drama: Building can you be sure yours is one of the winners? In this ity of your characters, to craft a screen story that will advanced course, the student may drop his or her the Story and the Outline intense, informative, and entertaining course, you learn make the most of these compelling characters, and to second choice course and transfer into the advanced X 430.4 Film & Television 3 units everything you need to know about what goes into a create one-of-a-kind characters that showcase your course without penalty; however the student will be Modeled directly on how writers write in the real world winning pilot. You watch and dissect recent network and unique writer’s voice. Depending on your preference, you responsible for any difference in course fees. of 1-hour dramas, this course focuses on what is most cable pilots; examine character, theme and structure; either: 1) complete a detailed story outline that concen- central to creating a strong script as well as the largest and discuss which pilots best launched their respective trates on character; or 2) rewrite an existing script, Advanced Feature Film piece (40%) of the writer’s deal with any show: the story series. Emphasis is on identifying the common struc- paying particular attention to character. Come to the first and outline. You learn to choose the best story for your tural elements of all successful pilots, gaining an Writing Workshop spec script, map it out from beginning to end, and write class with a movie idea you are ready to develop, or an X 432.20 Film & Television 3 units understanding of “weekly franchise” versus “series a strong outline in proper script format. In the process, existing script to you want to rewrite. Prerequisite: This advanced workshop is designed to take partici- mythology”, and crafting long-term character arcs. We you learn how to identify and capture the tone, charac- X 431.101 Intermediate Feature Film I and X 431.102 pants who are approaching professional status from an also discuss and develop student pilot ideas, help you ters, dialogue, and themes of any 1-hour drama Intermediate Feature Film II, or equivalent, or consent of original idea through first draft. In a workshop setting, turn your idea into a concise “pitch document” (a two- series—the key to breaking and staying in the field. Also instructor. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Internet you are challenged to push the limits of your imagina- to-three-page breakdown of concept, character, and covered are the various genres (police procedurals, access required to retrieve course materials. tion and encouraged to develop your individual voice, weekly story structure) and give you the tools you need medical, legal, etc.) and their specific rules; what’s with the goal of creating screenplays that are unique, to make the big move from pitch document to pilot Reg# W9646B popular in the current marketplace; and how to work passionate, and commercial. Prerequisite: This course outline and script. The course features guest speakers Through Dec 17: $525 / After: $575 within the special requirements of timeslots, outlet, and requires a script submission; for instructions on submit- who have written, directed, and/or produced their own UCLA: 1256 School of Public Affairs Bldg. styles. The course goal is for you to master the process ting a script see this page. Course may be taken as a network television pilots. Course may be taken as a Tue 7-10pm, Jan 17-Mar 20, 10 mtgs of constructing an airtight story and detailed outline so certificate core requirement or elective. Enrollment certificate elective. Enrollment limited to 30 students. No refund after Jan 24. that you are ready to write a script for any current show limited to 12 students. Visitors not permitted. Internet Internet access required to retrieve course materials. Chris Webb, screenwriter whose credits include Toy as quickly and expertly as possible. All student projects access required to retrieve course materials. Reg# W9476B Story II for Pixar Animation Studios, Bruno the Kid: The must focus on current shows; no pilots. Course may be Animated Movie, and episodes of the television series Reg# W9466B Through Dec 18: $405 / After: $445 taken as a certificate core requirement. Enrollment UCLA: 2333 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Duckman. An alumnus of The Second City in Chicago, Fee: $605 limited to 20 students. Internet access required to Wed 7-10pm, Jan 18-Mar 21, 10 mtgs Mr. Webb has won numerous awards for his satirical UCLA: 110 Haines Hall retrieve course materials. short films The Civil War Parody, a satire of the Ken Thu 7-10pm, Jan 26-Mar 29, 10 mtgs No refund after Jan 25. Reg# W9470B Burns series The Civil War, and Camcorder Blues, a No refund after Jan 19. Richard Hatem, screenwriter; WGA member who cre- Through Dec 17: $419 / After: $459 parody of home videos. , screenwriter-director; WGA member ated the ABC/Touchstone television series Miracles and Tom Lazarus UCLA: A82 Haines Hall whose credits include the features Stigmata; Just You has written and produced episodes of Fox’s Tru Calling Tue 7-10pm, Jan 17-Mar 20, 10 mtgs and Me, Kid; Movies Kill; Word of Mouth; House of and The Inside, CW’s Supernatural, and USA’s The Dead No refund after Jan 24. Love; and Voyeur Confessions as well as seven movies- Zone. Mr. Hatem’s feature film credits include The Charlie Craig, MFA, television writer/executive pro- of-the-week. Mr. Lazarus is the author of Secrets of Mothman Prophecies, which he also co-produced. He ducer; WGA member who served as a showrunner for Film Writing (St. Martin’s Press) as well as Rewriting is currently developing a new one-hour drama for ABC. Syfy’s Eureka. Mr. Craig also was a writer and supervis- Secrets for Screenwriters (St. Martin’s Press). ing producer for The X-Files (Fox), as well as a writer and producer for Invasion (ABC), among others. He has run six primetime network and cable shows on ABC, Fox, USA, and Syfy. Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Writers’ Program 145 Writing the Half-Hour Spec Comedy Intermediate Courses Pilot: Advanced Workshop 1-Day Workshops Learn the Art X 432.6B Film & Television 3 units Writing the 1-Hour Spec Drama Script A key component of every television writing portfolio is The Legal and Business Aspects of X 431.4 Film & Television 3 units an original writing sample which illustrates both the Writing for Film and Television Mirroring the process that professionals undergo in and Business of “voice” and saleable capabilities of a new writer. This 785.18 Film & Television current episodic series production, this course guides workshop guides you to develop a half-hour premise The nuts and bolts of the business of writing are as you to write a solid first draft of your script and work Entertainment that combines your original vision with a network’s likely essential to a writer’s success as the writer’s work on polishing it. You begin by refining your story idea and requirements. From the idea to pilot story structure and itself. Do you know how a writer gets an agent and an outline as needed, and then write your script, focusing Each quarter, top Hollywood finished script, your goal is to create a half-hour com- attorney and what exactly they do? Or how work is sold on capturing the essence of the show through its four- professionals teach courses in: edy pilot that effectively establishes ongoing series and how the writer is compensated? This comprehen- act structure, plot and story, multiple storylines, char- elements while bringing your characters to life. This sive 1-day seminar answers these questions and pro- acters, scenes, and dialogue. On the business side, you Acting course is open to those who wish to write animated vides key information on many other “must know” learn how to develop your career game plan and hear pilots as well as live action. Prerequisite: Submit a half- issues, including when and why an agent is necessary from industry guest speakers on the business of the Cinematography hour spec script or original pilot; for instructions on (or not); how agents and lawyers are compensated by 1-hour drama. Students must bring a complete outline Development submitting a script see page 144. Course may be taken their clients; the content of a typical collaboration to the first class. All student projects must focus on as a certificate core requirement or elective. Enrollment agreement and 3 reasons why it is an absolute neces- current shows; no pilots. Prerequisite: X 430.4 Begin- Directing limited to 12 students. Visitors not permitted. Internet sity; how the Writers Guild of America’s Basic Agree- ning Writing for the 1-Hour Drama: Building the Story access required to retrieve course materials. ment has an impact on all aspects of film and television and Outline. Course may be taken as a certificate core Producing writing, including minimum compensation (“scale”), requirement. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Internet Reg# W9487B residuals, royalties, other payments, and credit; a access required to retrieve course materials. The Music Business Fee: $605 detailed review of a typical option/purchase agreement UCLA: 2319 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Reg# W9478B Independent Music Production for a screenplay; and the principles of copyright law as Wed 7-10pm, Jan 18-Mar 28, 10 mtgs the underpinnings of all writing. Bring all your questions Through Dec 18: $525 / After: $575 (no mtg 2/8) UCLA: 2284 School of Public Affairs Bldg. concerning the business of being or becoming a suc- Film Scoring No refund after Jan 11. Wed 7-10pm, Jan 18-Mar 21, 10 mtgs cessful film and/or television writer. Advance enrollment Julie Chambers, writer; WGA member whose credits No refund after Jan 25. Page 87. required; no enrollment at the door. include a Writers Guild Award-nominated episode of , screenwriter; WGA member whose credits Erica Byrne The Simpsons. Ms. Chambers also has written episodes Reg# W9494B include episodes of La Femme Nikita; Nowhere Man; for Becker; The Buzz on Maggie; and the Showtime Through Jan 25: $129 / After: $139 Silk Stalkings; Hunter; Knots Landing; and Walker, Texas movie The Princess and the Barrio Boy. She recently UCLA: 1256 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Ranger. Ms. Byrne has served as a staff writer and has factor in commercial and production considerations from worked with Mel Brooks on an animated series based ✷✷Sat 9:30am-5pm, Feb 25, 1 mtg written many produced docudramas as well as the outset. The course goal is to complete a scene-by- on his movie Spaceballs and is a published children’s Enrollment deadline: Feb 24 ­animated scripts. She received the UCLA Extension scene outline that is ready to go to script. Prerequisite: book author. Paul S. Levine, JD, MBA, member, State Bar of Cali- Outstanding Instructor Award in Screenwriting, 1997. X 430.4 Beginning Writing for the 1-Hour Drama: Build- David Chambers, writer and producer; WGA member; fornia; entertainment lawyer for 29 years. Before ing the Story and the Outline, or X 430.6 Beginning who has worked on more than a dozen prime-time establishing his own law practice in 1992, Mr. Levine Writing for the Half-Hour Comedy: Building the Story and Writing the Half-Hour Spec network television shows. Mr. Chambers is an Emmy was an entertainment lawyer in the legal affairs depart- the Outline, or equivalent. Course may be taken as a Comedy Script Award nominee for his work on The Wonder Years and ment of Warner Bros. Television and spent two years as certificate core requirement or elective. Enrollment X 431.6 Film & Television 3 units Frank’s Place, winner of a Humanitas Award, and his resident counsel for Hearst Entertainment Productions. limited to 16 students. Internet access required to This workshop guides you to write a solid draft spec episode of The Simpsons was nominated recently for a In addition, he has had his own literary agency for the retrieve course materials. script from your half-hour comedy outline and to move Writers Guild Award. He recently worked on 2 History past 13 years. as far ahead as you can in polishing it. You begin by Reg# W9485B Channel specials featuring comedian Lewis Black. reworking your outline to simplify your story, nail down Through Dec 19: $525 / After: $575 Comedy Today: Writing and Selling the essence of your characters, focus and tighten UCLA: 152 Royce Hall Television Comedy scenes, create mood and pacing, and punch up dia- Thu 7-10pm, Jan 19-Mar 22, 10 mtgs Intensive and Weekend 785.53 Film & Television logue from the blueprint you’ve created. You then move No refund after Jan 26. Join writer-producer Ed Scharlach and a group of to the writing and polishing stage. On the business side, Charles Rosin, writer-producer; WGA member who Screenwriting Workshops accomplished professional writer-producers as they you deepen your knowledge of the current comedy was the executive producer/showrunner for the first 5 guide you through the process of crafting successful series marketplace and map out basic career building seasons of the original Beverly Hills, 90210. Mr. Rosin 2-Day Workshops and commercially funny half-hour comedy scripts. You strategies. Students must bring a complete outline to received an Emmy nomination as supervising producer learn how to find humor in character, situation and the first class. All student projects must focus on cur- for Northern Exposure. He has written and produced set-up, point-of-view, and the creation of a comedic rent shows; no pilots. Prerequisite: X 430.6 Beginning numerous movies, pilots, and prime-time series, includ- How to Pitch Your Feature Film story—the primary factor in creating a good script. Writing for Half-Hour Comedy: Building the Story and ing Dawson’s Creek, and South of Nowhere. X 431.24B Film & Television 1 unit Writing as a team as well as solo, writing on staff Outline. Course may be taken as a certificate core In this hands-on workshop, screenwriter Michael Weiss versus freelance, and writing “in the room,” and discuss requirement. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Internet demystifies the pitch process, teaches you how to build the step-by-step construction of a script, 3-camera access required to retrieve course materials. Advanced Courses a winning pitch, and gives you confidence-building versus one-camera styles, network versus cable shows, techniques to make pitch meetings positive targets of Reg# W9479B the dramatic underbelly of comedy, and putting comedy Writing the 1-Hour Drama Pilot: opportunity. Topics include getting the pitch meeting, into drama. Guest speakers (subject to availability) Through Dec 17: $525 / After: $575 perfecting the pitch, “working the room,” creating UCLA: 1284 School of Public Affairs Bldg. Advanced Workshop include Michael Price, Co-Executive Producer, The instant allies, defusing tension, controlling the meeting, Tue 7-10pm, Jan 17-Mar 20, 10 mtgs X 432.4B Film & Television 3 units Simpsons; Steve Levitan, Co-Creator, Executive Pro- and post-pitch strategies. The course gives you the No refund after Jan 24. In today’s market, a good spec pilot is an essential ducer, Modern Family; Steve Callaghan, Executive chance to learn and practice key pitching techniques in , writer-director; WGA member who was sample. Neither pure episodes nor stand-alone screen- Producer, Family Guy; Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, Phil Kellard the first session, then apply what you have learned to executive producer on The Wayans Brothers and Martin plays, 1-hour pilots nevertheless must have the feeling Creators, Executive Producers, How I Met Your Mother; your own material in the second session. Course may and producer on Doogie Howser, MD; Hooperman; and of both—all in 55-60 pages. This workshop guides you Rob McElhenny, creator and exec-producer of It’s be taken as a certificate elective. Enrollment limited to My Two Dads. Mr. Kellard currently is developing hour to develop a drama series premise that combines your Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Aaron Shure, Producer, 20; advance enrollment required. and half-hour series for network and cable and has original vision with a network’s likely requirements. The Office; and Dan Harmon, Creator, Executive written pilots for The Disney Channel, Showtime, FBC, From the idea to pilot story structure and finished script, Reg# W9491B ­Producer, Community. Advance enrollment required; no and the Syfy. He has received an Emmy Award for your goal is create a pilot that effectively establishes Through Dec 28: $195 / After: $209 enrollment at the door. ongoing series elements while bringing your characters UCLA: 2317 School of Public Affairs Bldg. instructional programming. Reg# W9493B to life. Prerequisite: Spec script or original pilot submit- ✷✷Sat & Sun 10am-3pm, Jan 28 & 29, 2 mtgs Through Feb 29: $129 / After: $139 tal is required; for instructions on submitting a script Developing the TV Series: Michael Weiss, screenwriter; WGA member; former UCLA: 121 Dodd Hall see page 144. Course may be taken as a certificate vice president of production for Miramax Films whose ✷✷Sat 9:30am-5pm, Mar 31, 1 mtg Intermediate Workshop core requirement or elective. Enrollment limited to 12 produced credits include Journey to the Center of the X 430.592 Film & Television 3 units Enrollment deadline: Mar 30 students. Visitors not permitted. Internet access Earth and I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. In an industry desperate to find anything that works, the Ed Scharlach, writer-producer; WGA and PGA member required to retrieve course materials. Mr. Weiss has sold original material and been hired on opportunity for an emerging talent to create and develop who has had over 300 prime-time television episodes assignment by such studios as Warner Bros., Sony, New original series concepts has never been greater. This Reg# W9489B produced, ranging from Happy Days and Mork and Mindy Line, MGM, and Cartoon Network. course challenges emerging writers-storytellers to find Fee: $605 to current series for Warner Bros. and Disney, including their own distinct voice by creating an original single UCLA: 1284 School of Public Affairs Bldg. What’s New Scooby-Doo? and The Emperor’s New series premise and developing it into a structured out- Thu 7-10pm, Jan 26-Mar 29, 10 mtgs School. Mr. Scharlach has earned Emmy, Annie, and line. By focusing on the outline process, you move away No refund after Jan 19. Writers Guild Award nominations and a Cable ACE Award. from a reliance on dialogue and instead focus on how Greg Elliot, television writer; WGA member whose to integrate character, story, structure, point-of-view, and credits include Star Trek: Voyager, for which he was tone into a satisfying, readable document that clearly nominated for a Sci-Fi Universe Award. Mr. Elliot was a c UC credit; see page 149 reflects your creative sensibilities. Scripted series devel- story editor on the WB series Savannah, an executive oped for the class do not have to be geared toward story editor on the WB series Charmed, and wrote for m Online course prime-time—cable, PBS, Internet, digital media, and the Disney Channel series In a Heartbeat. He also has animation are all viable outlets for creative expression optioned feature film screenplays to Warner Bros. & Text required; see page 148 and each has a distinct market place. In order to main- Studios and TriStar Pictures. tain a professional atmosphere, you are encouraged to M Course held during daytime hours