This event is canceled!
Marion Winik’s Workshop:
Great Beginnings: On Reading and Writing Page One
Our approach will be to ask each student to bring an example of a beginning they love — can be from an essay, story, novel, memoir, whatever. Ideally, you will photograph or scan or screenshot the first page or two of your selection so I can display them via a projector.We’ll analyze what makes these work. I’ll have examples too. The idea will be to generate a list of opening gambits (a preliminary version of which I will have actually created beforehand.)Then you will rewrite the opening of the piece you bring to class. We may share these or–if the morning discussion has sparked an idea for a new piece–you could write that new opening. I’ll allow 30 minutes for this. Then we’ll share these new openings and discuss!
Saturday, September 16, 2023:
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
$200. Limited seating!