#writing class

[bagels-and-cream-cheese333]

I just came back from writing class y’all <3

made a raph angst poem (without explicitly mentioning his name or anything) and once my teacher read over ti she was so impressed she called out my name like “BAGELS!! Wow this is amazing… can you tell me your inspiration?”

and let me tell you the fear I felt.

she was on the verge of tears

In the end I just got up and whispered “..raph the ninja turtle” and she just stared at me and started laughing really hard.

that was cute :)

[1000thingstodo]

I NEED TO JOIN A WRITING CLASS RAHH

[shark-myths]

tell me more about the writing class!

I would loving nothing more!

so my long-time writing crush @alienfuckeronmain (seriously, we became pairing rivals in a now-deceased fandom more than 20 years ago) runs an amazing writing class annually. It is fully virtual and recorded, so you can attend synchronously (I recommend this because the Q&A after the lecture is invaluable!) or whenever works best for you. It focuses on writing as a LIFESTYLE, something sustainable and full of joy, healing the productivity/perfection trauma many of us come to associate with the craft. it focuses not on sharing and critiquing writing but on how to support yourself and your life so that you can DO it, for fun and for love, in a way that works for you. it is such a healthy and beautiful approach to my favorite thing in the world, I highly recommend the course. The website is here and the instagram account, bloodinkbonewriting, also has a lot of info and promo material. Phoenix herself is an incredible talent with some recently published books I highly recommend. She’s most famous for being canceled in various fandoms, writing the finest one direction fic you can imagine, being the master of dead dove and fucked-up dynamics, and of course, humanized Cars fic.

self-disclosure / soapbox time: I work as a psychologist, and I so frequently encounter grown-ass adults who made all the right choices. They put away ‘childish’ things like hobbies and passion and silliness and intensity, they prioritized all the values our culture prizes, and they end up feeling so fucking empty and bleak. I constantly connect to gratitude about my daily writing practice, about my relentless and unprofitable pursuit of writing for joy. I have been writing rpf since I was thirteen years old. I thought I *invented* it and would certainly go to hell for my ingenuity. And it is the richest part of my life. I meet all the best people this way. I love who I am and the way I live because of being connected to art and community—a community of transformative work and creativity and passion, of screeching about our favorite things without self-consciousness or self-erasure. I genuinely believe this is the best part of my self and life. (except for my cats.) and when I encounter the dullness and misery of a life at the grindstone, I know beyond doubt that writing and fandom are my #1 protective factor. They are the reason I don’t feel that burned out and hollow way about my good, good life.

if you do one thing for yourself, find a way to create and connect joyfully and without the evaluative eye of others upon you. and if you have lost the way to doing that with writing because of the world we live in or, worse, the educational system and endless pressure to make your art profitable—blood ink bone has my highest recommendation as a gentle way to recover that path within yourself!

[writingtheother]

Webinar: Writing Inclusive and Emotional Sex Scenes

Writing emotionally charged, sexually explicit scenes in fiction can be challenging no matter what genre you write. This webinar will provide a deep dive into writing inclusive sex scenes that are true to your characters and are memorable for your readers.

EDSE certified sex educator and author Thien-Kim Lam will walk students through the elements of a sex scene, creating chemistry using sensory details, exploring emotional arcs during love scenes, accessibility considerations when crafting these intimate moments, and much more.

This is a live webinar with a combination of lectures, discussion, and generative writing exercises. There will be discussion about the writing exercise but you will not be sharing your work in class.

When: March 17th, 2024 – 9AM – 4PM Pacific Can’t make the live webinar? Register to get the recording after Where: Online — Zoom Classroom Price: $100 – $150 Scholarships Available | Deadline: February 27

Please visit our website more details on registration options, required texts (if any), technical requirements, our accessibility statement, class audience, and the scholarship application.

👉🏾👉🏾 Details and Registration 👈🏾👈🏾

[archiveoftheodd]

Did you want to make your own Found Fiction?

Don't know where to start?

Originally offered through our sales drive, we're opening this mini-class to everyone!

As with the sales drive, the ticket price is to help fund our work and move us towards our goals of increasing contributor pay.

Sign up for around an hour of CM Baldwin's velvet voice telling YOU how to make the most interesting story formats. Join us in making telling the weirdest stories they've ever seen.

[greenapplebling]

As a kid I thought of you as a rose,

As a grown up I saw all your thorns.

I know thorns are there to protect you,

But was it necessary to turn them on me?

Of the rose garden, you're the reddest.

Could it be that your petals are painted

With the blood of my wounds?

It didn't matter if it's by force or gentleness,

If it's by rigor or kindness, if it's by hate

Or love. Your thorns hurt me all the same.

[satanicsanity]

(Random rambling time!)

"Join a writing class!" they said, "it'll be fun!" they said.

They, meaning me. I joined a creative writing class and don't get me wrong, I LOVE IT 💕💕💕 for nearly an entire two hours I get to just sit down and write about whatever the hell I want (long stories, short stories, poetry, script writing, etc)

Though I just finished my second official story. My first was was 5 pages and somewhere between 800 - 1,000 words long. Wanna guess how big my second story is?

10,182 words... And 31 Google-doc pages. What the fuck possessed me?

Now all in all, that isn't particularly super long (in my opinion of), but I wrote it in only around 2 weeks and I'm still proud of myself! I'm mid-edit, doing some polishing, then I'll move on. I absolutely loved writing it, but trying to figure out exactly how to finish the damn thing had me like-

(I've also got 5 poems I'm still cooking, so... My brain is ready to just completely give out on me-)

[wanderrealms]

Nothing like hearing "it's a golf story with sex" in your headphones in the morning, to properly wake you up.

[howtonerdoutovereverything]

That moment when you realize you had a whole ass story you could've submitted for your Creative Writing workshop that was shorter and a bit more well-crafted but slightly boring besides the dialogue but instead you came up with a whole new story that was longer and a lot more incoherent but potentially more interesting

[these-summer-nights-in-december]

Announcing my spring creative writing workshops!

Friends! Announcing my SPRING 2025 poetry and creative nonfiction private online writing workshops!

On Wednesdays, I'll teach "In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry" 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET, 6 weeks, starting April 16. We'll read recently published poetry from literary journals and books, generate new poems with the help of prompts that I create, and spend the bulk of each class in a fun, inspiring poetry workshop. In this course participants will write and receive workshop comments on five original poems. Writers at all levels are welcome. I teach In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry often, and every time the readings are all new, so you can take it again and again!

On Thursdays, I'm offering my also popular combination generative and workshop class "Introduction to the Lyric Essay" 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET, 6 weeks, starting April 17. This workshop will usher you into the wild and liberating world of the lyric essay, a popular form of the contemporary experimental creative nonfiction essay. This class is made for both writers who are new to lyric essays and writers wishing to deepen their relationship with lyric essays. If you are a nonfiction writer wanting to engage with this popular form, this is the class for you! If you are a poet wanting to branch out into a new genre, this is the class for you! If you have never written creative nonfiction before, this is the class for you! Writers at all levels are welcome.

Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday April 13.

😀 Details & registration available http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/. Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀 .

[filmcourage]

How To Know You Have A Good Story Idea - Andrew Zinnes

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

[theultimategaebread]

my english teacher will sob once i finish my independent project, because i have been given access to my AU, free reign of what I write, and the Crane Wives, The Fool in Her Wedding Gown, Coyote Stories, and Foxlore albums.

I will also probably be sent to the councilors office but that's okay, cause I have not written anything that I would not be comfortable with them seeing

[discotitsposts]

i wish i could show all the comments and people who are now telling me i’m a good writer to my 11th grade writing teacher LMAOOO I almost failed that class

now i write spencer reid fanfic😭

i did write a pretty good novel back then ngl it was about a haunted house

[looopsloop]

My love  for you is like how the earth needs the sun to stay alive.  

When i see you my soul feels like its growing roots inside of me, searching for your skin where i can take root and grow. 

Without you i am like a ghost, waiting with its thoughts, but when you are with me i am like a song with only the words, finally finding the melody that i need to make myself beautiful 

When you say you love me i have to ask myself if your right-but when i look into your eyes i cant help but believe everything that you say

If the world was ending the first thing id do is id pick up my phone and talk to you, even as the world is burning the sound of your voice puts me at ease, and i hope when were both part of the midnight sky, we will form a beautiful constellations. 

oh my god I was cooking in my writing class today ig

[writingtheother]

Reg Open: Non-Linear Story Structures from Non-Western Traditions

When: February 25th, 2024 | 10AM – 1PM Pacific Time Can't make the live webinar? Register to get the recording after Where: Online — Zoom Classroom Price: $75 - $100 Scholarships are available - scholarship deadline is February 4th!

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

Carroll’s king was clearly not a Chinese king. Western storytelling traditions decree that a linear structure (along with the three act structure, the hero’s journey, and a rising self-esteem arc) are mandatory features of any satisfying story. This is Western-centric silliness. In this webinar, author Henry Lien will explore non-linear structures, specifically cyclic and nested structures, using examples from non-Western stories and films.

Students will come to understand how these non-linear structures allow for thematic stacking, embracing of moral complexity, and a synthesis between form and content to explode the idea that a straight line is the best way to tell every story. The webinar emphasizes practical craft takeaways for storytellers to apply to their own works in progress.

This webinar will run from 10AM to 1PM Pacific Time with short breaks in the middle.

Details and Registration at Writing the Other's website.

[fated-mates]

Sarah's conflict class starts tomorrow!

It's a two hour workshop followed by a month of discussions, exercises, a round table with Sophie Jordan, Angelina M. Lopez, and Christopher Rice, and a chance to pick Sarah's brain about her craft.

The class runs 10/6-11/13. Everything is recorded and available for the full month.

Learn more.