A Taste of Constraint: Liberate your Creativity with Freda Love Smith
Playing with Oulipo-inspired constraints and Surrealist games to liberate your creativity
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Try This On For Size: Exploring Your Story Through Prompts with Cyn Vargas
A generative class where you explore your story and characters through various quick fire prompts.
The Pajama Seminars: Thinking in Fragments with Jenny Boully
In this generative class, participants will be given prompts with which to generate micro-essays and fragments.
The Pajama Seminars: Writing Dangerous Satires with Rion Amilcar Scott
Ridiculous times call for ridiculous responses.
Eight Essential Elements of Essay with Ellen Blum Barish
There are eight essential elements that, used as a checklist, can provide great insight for final revisions for an essay.
The Pajama Seminars – Looking for a Mind at Work: Telling and Showing in Narrative Prose with Kate Harding
“Show, don’t tell” is one of the most commonly offered pieces of writing advice, but it’s not necessarily the best approach for every story or essay.
The Pajama Seminars: What to Write When You Think You Can’t Write with Juan Martinez
This class will include practical advice as well as three targeted exercises designed to jumpstart your writing.
The Pajama Seminars – Writing Real People: Empathy and Generosity in Fiction with Claire Lombardo
We’ll explore how to create fully three-dimensional characters using a twofold approach, striving for both technical mastery and deep emotional generosity.
Writing the Senses with Anca Szilágyi
Sensory details engage readers and make stories pop.
Poetry, Fairytales, and Intuitive Magic with David Welch
Fairy tales, like poems, are as much about their forms as they are the definition of their genre.
Dialogue and Tension with Sarah Terez Rosenblum
Central to all storytelling–whether you write fiction, or creative nonfiction– is the need to build and sustain narrative tension so that your readers feel drawn into your writing.