1 Day Seminar: Thursday, June 8th, 5-7PM EST
online via Zoom, 25 students max
Best for: all levels, prose writers
$75 (credit card payments accepted)
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Though it looks great on a movie screen (and on social media), there’s more to writing than clacking on keys. This lecture-based class identifies and examines stages and processes essential to writing and helps you plan your work in a way that lets you see the road ahead with clarity, not anxiety. We'll look at everything that goes into writing beyond typing words into a document, breaking down each process so that you can approach your work with intention, focus, and confidence that you’ve gathered the tools you need and will know the right times to employ them.
Developed for prose but open to writers of all genres with all levels of experience, this lecture-based class is designed to help writers understand and optimize their process wherever they are in their life or writing career. We’ll cover methods for setting goals and for accomplishing work through collecting ideas, drafting (you do, after all, have to clack on keys at some point!), revising, researching, and more, as well as some key assessments. We’ll also talk about how to return to a project after an absence, when to bring in outside readers, and how to know when it’s time to step back from a project. I’ll give key strategies, definitions, and resources while leading you through individual exercises for reflection and planning — all developed to ensure the work gets done according to your ambitions while maintaining connection to your creative spark.
* This is an evolution of my course “Beyond Word Count” taught at Catapult. This course pairs nicely with “Creating a Sustainable Writing Practice” (May 18), but it stands alone.
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Danielle Lazarin is the author of the short story collection BACK TALK. Her fiction and essays have been published by places such as The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Glimmer Train, The Cut, Catapult’s Don’t Write Alone, and Literary Hub, amongst others. A graduate of Oberlin College’s creative writing program, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hopwood Awards, Millay Colony for the Arts, and The Freya Project. She lives and works in New York.
Testimonials
“Having worked with Danielle for several years both in her classes and one-on-one, I cannot recommend her highly enough as both a teacher and coach. She brings a deep engagement in her own writing life to meet you exactly where you are with empathy, generosity and incisive, practical, results-oriented guidance. She is a master teacher. Working with Danielle has changed my writing life.”
“Being Danielle's student really jump-started my personal writing process. Her unique insights are both focused and holistic; it's her advice for the journey that helps you get to the destination you want. As a teacher, she's earned my trust.”
“Danielle Lazarin is an insightful teacher whose pragmatic and empathetic approach to the practice of writing resonates for both new and more experienced writers. Working with Danielle I found writing muscles I didn’t know I had, and a fresh perspective on how letting the mind find its way to new ideas and getting out of one’s own way may be two of the most powerful tools in the writer’s toolbox.”