One-Day Craft Intensive: Monday, July 17th, 5-7PM EST
online via Zoom, 15 students max
Best for: Writers with a prose work-in-progress. The course is designed and will be taught for fiction but the method does apply to essays as well.
$95 (credit card payments accepted)
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Reverse outlining is a game-changing process for fiction writers in both the generative and revision stages of a project. In this one-day hands-on craft intensive, you will be carefully led through the method and how it can be used across prose projects. You will learn what a reverse outline is and when to use it, as well as the many ways it can serve your project and shift your big-picture thinking at various drafting stages (which we will clearly define). Additionally, we will talk about what it means to see and work on the level of story.
During class, you will work with 5–20 pages of your prose* to, in real-time, practice reverse outlining, helping you both gain footing on the project at hand and experience with the tools and tactics that can be applied to future work. This course will work best if you are mid-project — beyond conceptualization — of any length.
*The course is designed and will be taught for fiction, but the method applies to creative nonfiction as well.
We will be working through the reverse outline process during class time. Please bring 5-20 pages of a single prose project to the class. Pages must be printed! If you cannot work by hand for accessibility reasons, please be in touch after enrolling and we will figure out the best approach together.
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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.
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“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.”