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The Writers Retreat is six intense, inspiring days learning the art & craft of writing. In these intimate, hands-on groups, the emphasis will be on how to shape and present a saleable manuscript or screenplay. To that end, you will write and revise, have your manuscript critiqued, and revise some more. You'll learn in a variety of settings, from workshops to free-wheeling mentoring sessions to seminars. This is an unprecedented opportunity to transform your writing.
$1295 until May 15th
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Screenwriting
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Designed for the aspiring author who wants a more indepth understanding of how to write Bestselling Fiction. This class helps you answer these and other important questions about your project: Whose story is it? What’s at stake? Why here, why now? Why should the reader care and who do they care about? Who does the reader love to hate? At the end of the Retreat you should have the tools and road map you need to complete your novel.
This class will focus on the literary novel-emphasizing character and style over action and plot. Focus of the workshop will be on showcasing the unique voice with particular attention paid to characterization, structure, style, and dialogue.
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This class is for book length works such as memoir, autobiography, journalistic explorations, historical accounts and biography. The class covers the essentials of narrative nonfiction including issues of crafting factual incidences, the use of dialogue, what part of the story contribute to the narrative drama and what parts detract, developing a hook, and maintaining a story’s integrity while inserting narrative devices.
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This class is designed for people who are writing an instructional and/or how-to book. You’ll learn how to: create attention-grabbing titles; produce quality, page-turning content, craft a compelling Table of Contents, structure your chapters and organize your ideas so they flow; produce a one-page proposal you can use to pitch and position your project; and design a book that is strategically symbiotic with your career goals.
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Whether your project is a novel or a nonfiction book dealing with spiritual healing, spiritual journeys, quests, mystical or spiritual memoirs, or any other project dealing with inspirational or spiritual subjects, this class can help you craft a successful book.
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If
you really find to find out what you can do as a scriptwriter, sign up for this intensive
Retreat that will address all aspects of storytelling for film or television.
The Director of our Screenwriting Retreat, Michael Palmieri, has committed to reading the entire screenplay of each attendee of this very special learning experience. He promises to contact each student individually, “so that I can have a personal conversation with them prior to them arriving at the Screenwriting Retreat, so that they already have homework, know their expectations, and are all on the same page.”
“My commitment is to reach out to my community in the industry and get executives, coaches, producers, development executives who are working with writers on a daily basis and have proven track records in developing material with writers and have been able to sell and/or produce said material.
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