Once payment is confirmed, course attendees will be added to an exclusive Yahoo list and receive all lessons and group postings to that list at the internet e-mail address they provide. Two weeks after the concluding date of the class, all names and e-mail addresses will be removed from the NWGWorkshop list.
"Painfree Synopsis Writing"
The first few pages of a manuscript will demonstrate writing ability, but the synopsis of a novel or screenplay will sell the story. Why? It must depict the driving force of a 400-page novel or a 100-page screenplay in 500-700 words for harried editors, producers, agents. It must answer the vital question of "Can this writer deliver premise, beginning-middle-ending and character appeal?" Yes, synopsis is that important, BUT not a writer alive enjoys writing a summary of what has taken them weeks, months, years to create.
Let experienced Teacher-Novelist-Screenwriter Sally Walker walk you through her 8-session/4-week program that will give you the tools to make your synopsis a vivid signature of your storytelling ability. Short lectures will be posted on-line to the closed Yahoo list twice a week with succinct assignments/practice exercises and lots of feedback. Sally will keep you motivated until the process becomes painfree.
June 1 - 30, 2008
Cost: $20 for Guild members, $30 for others
($10 each registration will go to instructor and
balance to Guild treasury)
Jun 1 Think Summary & Signposts for a 2-Page Synopsis (500-700 words)
Jun 5 Start with the Invaluable "Log Line"
Jun 8 Who is the Main Character, the Antagonist & the Person who Arcs?
Jun 12 Paradigm/Spine-of-the-Story, One Sentence at a Time
Jun 15 STOP: Delete Subplot & Character Crowding!
Jun 19 Write JUST Beginning and Ending Paragraphs
Jun 22 Write three Paragraphs of Rising Action between Beginning & Ending
Jun 26 Revise for Vivid & Vital Images & Action
Narrative posting that will include:
Definitions, Elaboration, Examples, Definitive Directives,
Concluding Exercises Sally's responses to posted questions will be shared
with the entire student list.
You can find more on Sally Walker by visiting her website.
http://members.cox.net/sallyjwa
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 25, 2008