Interview at WOW!

I’ve been interviewed about my upcoming Odyssey Online class, All the World’s a Page, over at WOW! Women on Writing. A short read if you’d like to learn more about the class or need an excuse to procrastinate on holiday-related drudgery.

All the World’s a Page: Adapting Acting Techniques to Strengthen Your Fiction

Exciting new adventure time!

This winter I’ll be teaching a class for Odyssey Online, All the World’s a Page: Adapting Acting Techniques to Strengthen Your Fiction. Because I am a theater geek and will gladly talk everyone’s ear off about how useful acting techniques can be when applied to fiction writing.

Seriously, whether it’s character development, description, point of view, portraying emotion, generating plot momentum, or writing dialogue and subtext, there’s a technique you can steal from the acting world to strengthen it!

Details at the link, or you can check out all of the upcoming Odyssey Online classes here.

Fiction Writing Workshop

For anyone in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area who might be interested (or know someone interested), I’m excited to announce that I’ll be leading a four-part fiction writing workshop on Monday evenings this October. Here are the details:

Where: Unitarian Universalist Church in Cherry Hill, NJ, Hillside Building, Lower Level
Dates: October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2015
Time: 7 to 9 p.m.
Cost: Free!

Have no clue how to turn that novel idea in your head into actual words? Have a bunch of unfinished stories wasting away in a drawer? Or do you just want to learn more about the nuts and bolts of writing fiction?

This workshop is for anyone interested in writing short stories and novels, regardless of genre. Through examples, discussion, and writing exercises, we’ll explore core fiction elements like character, dialogue, setting, description, and plot.

Registration isn’t required, but if you’re planning to attend, please let me know so I can have a rough head count. You can reach me by clicking on the email icon in the right sidebar or via the contact form linked to in the main menu above.

And bring something to write with! Pen and paper, laptop—whatever you’re most comfortable with! Granted, if you’re most comfortable with an inkwell full of blood and parchment made from the skin of your slain enemies, you’ll probably get some weird looks. Just saying.