Write Unforgettable Scenes - Part 2 (Sat., Dec. 6, 11 am NYC /4 pm London)

WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT UNFORGETTABLE SCENES

How This 90-Minute Workshop Will Help You

We started the conversation in October. Let's keep going. AND DON'T WORRY IF YOU MISSED THE OCTOBER SEMINAR--WE'LL REVIEW THE BASICS. Whether you’re writing a short story, novel, or memoir, you want the reader to feel the story, to be in the moment as events happen. You bring readers into the story when you write SCENES and let readers live through the story along with your characters.

You write a scene from a specific point of view, including sensory details that make the setting come alive. There's probably dialogue, characters doing things, moving, gesturing, and using body language and facial expressions that provide hints as to what they're thinking and feeling. How do great writers juggle all this?!

We'll talk about how to combine SCENES and NARRATIVE SUMMARY so smoothly that it's barely noticeable. And we'll dive into LOOPING, which serves several purposes for a writer, including giving you a way to offer bits of backstory without disturbing the flow of your story. You may have "looped" without realizing what an amazing and versatile tool this is.

Writer & Writing Coach Myra Levine will take this complex subject and make it understandable. Writing prompts will give you an opportunity to practice writing scenes.

What You’ll Do in the Workshop

• Learn the difference between scene and narrative summary

• Examine the elements that go into effective scenes

• Learn how to smoothly combine scenes and narrative summary.

• Examine the technique of looping and see how it will help you tell a story

Who Should Attend

• New writers who don't feel comfortable writing scenes

•Writers who aren't sure their scenes are effective and interesting

• Writers who realize their skills need a boost

About Myra

Myra Levine is on a mission: to make sure that nobody dies with their story still inside them. She shows people how to turn their memories into interesting stories—even novels—with techniques not taught in school. And her classes are FUN. To Myra, writing isn’t about grammar or spelling or knowing where to put the commas; it’s about capturing a moment in a way that brings it to life. As a writing coach, she challenges her clients to dig deeper into their lives to find the germ of an idea that will become a great story, or a dozen great stories, or a terrific novel. Her favorite students fall into two categories: people who are sure they can’t write, and people who are sure they can!

Before turning to fiction, Myra spent decades writing television and radio scripts, instructional videos, and corporate marketing programs. She won many local and regional advertising awards before leaving corporate life to become a wife and mother of two adopted kids. Stay-at-home motherhood rekindled her ambition to write fiction.

As Myra puts it, “If you don't write your stories, who will?”

Written under the name M.E. Levine, Myra's novels, Revenge of the Soccer Moms and The Dead Mothers’ Club, are available on Amazon.com in print and e-book and on Audible.com as audiobooks.