Debuting New Online Live Course in January 2023

​Description, Dialogue, and Dynamic Beginnings: A Five-Week Workshop

Beginning January 3 at 4 pm PST and every Tuesday during the month of January
 
Week One: To paraphrase a song from the Sound of Music, “We’ll begin at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start.” When we write we begin with A-B-C…What makes beginnings dynamic? What are the A-B-C’s of powerful beginnings? Workshop and beginnings assignment.
 
Week Two:  Bring to class your written exercise assigned during week one. We will go over these in class, plus anything else you’d like to share/have critiqued. Start of Description and description assignment.
 
Week Three: Bring to class your written exercise assigned during week two. Continue description discussion. Do in-class assignment.  Take home assignment: Description exercise #2. Share/Critique time. 
 
Week Four: Bring to class your completed Description exercise #2, plus any other writing you want to share/have critiqued. Discussion on Dialogue. Dialogue assignment.
 
Week Five: Bring to class your completed Dialogue assignment, plus any other writing you want to share/have critiqued. Complete dialogue discussion and discuss “endings”.

Facilitator’s  Background: Jill L. Ferguson is the award-winning writer more than 2000 published articles, essays, and poems in Architectural Digest, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Sierra Magazine, and many more. She is the author of 15 books published under her own name and she has ghostwritten more than a dozen books for others. She also works as a book and business coach and is the founder of Creating the Freelance Career. ​

Register before November 15 at $129.
After November 15, the course price is $179. 

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Description, Dialogue, and Dynamic Beginnings

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This five-week workshop teaches you everything you wanted to know about writing description, dialogue, and dynamic beginnings. Each class is structured with interactive lecture followed by worshiping of writing assignments. Useful for beginning and intermediate writers of fiction and nonfiction.