Saturday, March 3rd, PLOT PLANNER WORKSHOP for Writers -- Plot at the overall story level

10:00-4:00PM
Book Passage
Corte Madera, California
For novelists, memoirists and screenwriters of all levels

When a character is changed or transformed over time by the dramatic action, a story becomes thematically significant.

For writers with only an idea and those wanting to do a final plot assessment before submission, this plot workshop allows you to tand back from the words on the page and analyze the overall plot of your novel, memoir, screenplay.

  • Analyze the dynamics of cause and effect to better able to create scenes that lead to a solid plot.
  • Explore how well-constructed characters in conflict act as the driving force behind an exceptional story to create your own exceptional story.
  • Delve into theme to give your project lasting meaning.

Novelists, memoirists, screenwriters, and writers of creative nonfiction benefit from a well-constructed plotline of the dramatic, emotional, and thematic elements of your project. A clearly formulated plotline will help you get going, prevent you from stalling partway through, and guarantee that even those of you who never finish anything will make to the end.

Beginners, intermediates and advanced writers alike are encouraged to bring your characters and a list of the scenes in your story. For those of you who have not yet started a writing project, let us know and we will provide you with everything you need. Though each Plot Intensive has a unique focus, you are always guaranteed fellowship with other writers in an safe setting.

The plot writing workshops are divided between lecture, time for development of the plotlines for your individual project, and movement. For the sake of convenience, the lectures give independent consideration to the dramatic (action), emotional (character development), and thematic aspects of story, but keep in mind that all aspects of a successful writing project must become integrated into the total structure to create its unity, and that achieving this unity is the goal of every writer.

The cost is:

  • $105

Martha Alderson, aka the Plot Whisperer, is an international plot consultant for writers and the author of The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master and Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple. Her clients include best-selling authors, New York editors and Hollywood screenwriters. She has taught plot workshops for memoir writers, novelists, and screenwriters privately, through University of Santa Cruz, Learning Annex, Writing Salon, Writers Store, and writing conferences.

Join Martha to explore the critical relationship between characterization and plot.

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