158 Writing, Journalism & Literature Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 WRITING, JOURNALISM & LITERATURE COMPARATIVE & ENGLISH WRITERS’ PROGRAM POETRY FEATURE FILM WRITING LITERATURE WRITERS STUDIO 166 Poetry 170 Feature Film Writing I 159 Comparative Literature (Beginning) 162 Writers Studio WRITING FOR THE YOUTH MARKET 159 English Composition 172 Feature Film Writing II 167 Writing for the Youth Market 159 Literature CREATIVE WRITING (Intermediate) 163 General Interest: Beginning CREATIVE NONFICTION 172 Feature Film Writing III JOURNALISM and Novice 167 Creative Nonfiction I (Advanced) 159 Journalism 163 General Interest: Special (Beginning) Subjects and Themes TELEVISION WRITING 168 Creative Nonfiction II 173 Television Writing I FICTION (Intermediate) (Beginning) 165 Fiction I (Beginning) 169 Creative Nonfiction III 174 Television Writing II 165 Fiction II (Intermediate) (Advanced) (Intermediate) 166 Fiction III (Advanced) 175 Television Writing III (Advanced) WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY “ I had a great experience with the Writers’ Program…the deadline of having something due helped pull two incredible pieces out of me.” — Sam Polk, former Writers’ Program student and author of For the Love of Money: A Memoir Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 Writing, Journalism & Literature 161 UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Presents Writers Studio 2017 4-Day Intensive Workshops in Screenwriting & Creative Writing Thursday–Sunday, February 9–12, Westwood: 1010 Westwood Center What Is the Writers Studio? Writers Studio 2017 Workshops Writers Studio Fee Push aside the demands and deadlines of This year’s workshops offer a rich variety of The $886 discounted fee* includes: daily life and dive into your writing at the learning experiences. Writers Studio. • Registration in one 4-day workshop During 4 intensive days, you learn and Creative Writing • Continental breakfast on Thursday morning write in a workshop equivalent to a regular Courage and Craft: A Writing Workshop • Complimentary coffee available throughout 10-week Writers’ Program course. to Jumpstart Your Creativity the day Select 1 workshop from a choice of 10, each with Barbara Abercrombie • Special guest on Saturday taught by a Writers’ Program instructor Writing the Memoir Sunday reception with light refreshments who is also an accomplished screenwriter, • with Samantha Dunn novelist, short fiction writer, editor, creative Refund Policy nonfiction writer, or literary agent. Making a Scene: Essential Elements with Daniel M. Jaffe A $150 administrative fee is withheld from all refunds. Refund requests must be post- Writing from Below the Neck: marked or phoned in by January 9, 2017. No A Theatrical Approach to refunds are available after that date (full Creating Characters refund if workshop is canceled, discontin- Writers Studio instructor Leon Martell with Leon Martell ued, or rescheduled). Writing the First Novel * Fee is $985 after January 9. How to Enroll with Mark Sarvas Online True Fiction: Visit uclaextension.edu/writersstudio Writing Stories Inspired by Our Lives for full information on the Writers Studio. Follow the links to complete your secure with Steven Wolfson enrollment. Screenwriting Phone Writing Your First Feature Film Enrollment by phone is highly recom- mended as you will find out immediately with Jon Bernstein which workshops are available. Call Creating the Half‑Hour TV Pilot (800) 825‑9971 and have your American and Series Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, or VISA ready. Writers Studio instructor Phil Kellard with Phil Kellard Creating the One‑Hour TV Pilot Other Requirements and Series Attendees will be emailed detailed logisti- with Richard Manning cal information beginning in November. Please provide your email address when Creating Powerful Scenes for Writers Studio instructor Samantha Dunn Film and TV you register. with Billy Mernit Pages 162–163. Praise from One of Last Year’s Participants “ I recommend the Writers Studio because you get practical tools, techniques, and confidence to hone your craft—no matter what stage you are at.” — Marlene Garcia, Woodland Hills, CA, 2016 Writers Studio participant For More Information About the Writers Studio [email protected] | (310) 825‑9415 | writers.uclaextension.edu/writers-studio 162 Writing, Journalism & Literature Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (800) 825-9971 NEW ENGL X 462.76 Creating the Half-Hour TV Pilot ENGL X 448.9C Writing the First Novel and Series Writers’ Program Writing from Below the Neck: 3.0 units 3.0 units A Theatrical Approach to Creating Writing the first novel can be daunting, at times, even Today, you need that original half-hour pilot script in Characters downright lonely. Though being a writer means being your portfolio to break into the business of writing alone, writing on your own, it’s good to come out of the 3.0 units television comedy. In this lively workshop, discover the cave and seek the company of other like-minded Writers Studio Many novels, short stories, screenplays, and plays ingredients you need to create great sitcoms, learn individuals for inspiration, support, and to brainstorm stagnate because they originate and get bogged down contemporary techniques to give comic conventions a NEW ideas. In this class, you are part of a small group of in ”ideas.” While ideas are important, they are most fresh feel, and then set about turning your pilot concept writers working towards the same goal—to write an ENGL X 400.03B compelling when their effects are manifested in the into a show that has the ”legs” to last five years. In a amazing first novel. Together, we explore the elements True Fiction: characters’ behavior. This course starts with exercises professional writing room atmosphere, find and select of successful novel writing, develop three-dimensional Writing Stories Inspired by Our Lives that smash through ”writer’s block,” exploring the the ideas to build that outline and unearth the unique characters, and understand structure, plot, and scene 3.0 units behavior of character and the irritants that provoke ingredients you bring to the mix: your own comic sen- dynamics. This intensive workshop consists of reading The old adage ”write what you know” too often negates action. It then moves to uncovering the story that sibility, your experience, your creative inspiration, your assignments (where you will learn what it means to the truth that a part of what we ”know” is in our imagi- already exists in the writer’s creative unconscious and cousin who runs the network. Okay, not everyone has ”read like a writer”), in-class exercises, assigned writ- nation. It is the blending of our personal experiences shaping it into presentable form. Taking a theatrical a useful cousin, but you will leave the workshop with a ing, lectures on craft, and the give-and-take of critique and what we can imagine that helps to create some of approach to discovering ”driven” characters, you write solid outline and encouragement to write the script that workshops. The goal is for you to create a solid outline our most powerful narratives. In this intensive writing from physical impulses and use concrete sensory might be your ticket into the business of writing half- of your novel (or a solid plan for finding your way to the workshop, for beginner and non-beginner alike, you images to spark writing that is dense and rich in hour shows. heart of your story), write a first chapter, and acquire study important elements such as turning-point stories, observable clues. Once the specific characters are Reg# 350222 the tools you need to keep you going when you return the complexities of character emotions, and the quest developed, you discover—rather than impose—a struc- Enrollment limited to 15 students. Visitors not to your cave. for organic conflict, all through a series of in-class ture for your piece of fiction, screenplay, or play. permitted. writing exercises. You learn to build a firm foundation Reg# 350234 Reg# 350225 $150 nonrefundable; no refund after January 9. for your fiction, one amazingly rooted in what you have Enrollment limited to 15 students. Visitors not Enrollment limited to 15 students. Visitors not Phil Kellard, writer-director; WGA member who was actually lived. The goal of the workshop, whether you’re permitted. permitted. executive producer on The Wayans Brothers and Martin, writing drama or comedy, is to find a deeper authentic- $150 nonrefundable; no refund after January 9. $150 nonrefundable; no refund after January 9. and producer on Doogie Howser, MD, and who has ity in your writing while completing several new works Mark Sarvas, writer, author of the novel Harry, Revised Leon Martell, MFA, playwright, actor, and director, written pilots for The Disney Channel, Showtime, FBC, of short fiction. (Bloomsbury), a finalist for the SoCal Independent whose plays include STEEL: John Henry and the and Syfy. Mr. Kellard received an Emmy Award for Booksellers Association’s Fiction Award, and the forth- Reg# 350224 Shaker, winner of two 2002 Ovation Awards, and who instructional programming and the UCLA Extension coming Memento Park (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Mr. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Visitors not directed String of Pearls at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Martell’s Outstanding Instructor Award in Screenwriting, and is a Sarvas’s literary blog, The Elegant Variation, was a permitted. work is performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the contributing author to Inside the Room (Gotham Books/ Forbes magazine Best of the Web pick, and a Los $150 nonrefundable; no refund after January 9. Hollywood Bowl, and he is a regular participant in the Penguin). Currently he is serving as a creative consul- Angeles Magazine ” Top L.A. Blog.” Steven Wolfson, MFA, award-winning playwright, and Library Girl fiction reading series. He is a recipient of tant for CBS’s The Inspectors. Fee: $985 founding member of The Mark Taper Forum’s Mentor the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in Fee: $985 ❖❖ Classroom Playwrights Project. Mr. Wolfson’s latest play, The Creative Writing.