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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Time Traveler: How to Manipulate Time on the Page
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the chronology of a story\, we can speed up and slow down time within scenes\, immersing the reader more fully in the moment. Explore four kinds of time in this write-along webinar. \n\n\n\nFor creative nonfiction\, nonfiction\, and fictionIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nTime on the page creates tension\, amplifies emotion\, and controls the pace of the story. This can be the time it takes characters or the narrator to move across a room\, a montage of the past or flashbacks within the present scene\, and the time created by different verb tenses and points of view.  \n\n\n\nWriters most often work with four types of time:  \n\n\n\n\nLinear/logical time that sustains plot and point of view\n\n\n\nThe Continuous Present\, which brings immediacy to the page and can support multiple or collective points of view\n\n\n\nLong Time\, with which we can depict extraordinary amounts of time passing in a flash piece and show how the deep past informs the present and the future\n\n\n\nMeticulous Time\, when the time within the story is actually shorter than the amount of time it takes to read it. By slowing time and examining smaller details and moments\, greater emotion is created on the page or the reader’s focus is controlled. \n\n\n\n\nWith examples and instructions\, explore the fascinating craft of creating\, expanding\, and contracting time by rewriting a single scene in each of the four times. You’ll finish our action-packed hour with a deeper understanding of how time elapses within scenes and flash pieces and a stronger understanding of when and why to use each type of time.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will also help you find a well of creativity and freedom to draw from in connection to how you replicate time on the page. \n\n\n\nCome ready to write! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN about four different types of time to use in creative writing\n\n\n\nHEAR examples that illuminate the advantages of using different time elements\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how time is its own craft element\, helping writers guide their readers through plot\n\n\n\nWRITE in four kinds of time to truly understand this craft technique\n\n\n\nKNOW how\, when\, and why to expand and contract time in your work\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for …\n\n\n\n\nintermediate and advanced fiction and nonfiction writers who are obsessed with time—how it moves\, bends\, and plays tricks on the page\n\n\n\nwriters looking to explore fresh aspects of craft and push past familiar techniques\n\n\n\nwriters whose scenes feel flat or rushed and want to learn how to stretch a moment until it earns its weight\n\n\n\nwriters struggling with pacing—either everything moves too fast\, or nothing moves at all\n\n\n\nwriters who want their prose to mirror the way memory\, boredom\, or deep focus actually feel\, instead of defaulting to straightforward chronology\n\n\n\nwriters ready to experiment with structure and are looking for a framework to do it with intention\, not just instinct\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn informal-but-informed teacher focused on actionable results\, Sherrie Flick is the author of six books\, including the short story collection I Have Not Considered Consequences (Autumn House Press\, 2025). She is co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Her work has been performed at Symphony Space for NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, including Ploughshares\, New England Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Flash Fiction Forward. An essay from her debut essay collection\, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press)\, was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Her most recent awards include a Creative Development Grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She is a visiting professor in the West Virginia Wesleyan low-residency MFA program.REFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Why Does Your Memoir Matter? Finding the Heart of Your Story to Connect with Readers
DESCRIPTION:Your memoir is not what happened to you—it’s why it mattered. Memoirs that sell connect a single focus from your story with readers. \n\n\n\nFor memoiristsIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nOne of the most challenging things for memoirists to do is find the singular story out of a lifetime of stories they’re telling in their memoir. A memoir is a single lens on an aspect of a life—not an entire biography\, and memoirists must learn to distill their work. The events they choose to dramatize must be those most relevant to the internal growth trajectory of the narrator. In other words\, they must learn to ask “who cares?” ruthlessly about key events in their lives. Not a task for the faint of heart!  \n\n\n\nIn this interactive webinar\, we’ll explore powerful questions to help you find the heart of your memoir. If you aren’t sure yet what your story is\, these questions can help you understand what’s missing! We will also look at the concept of a misbelief and learn how tracking a character’s misbelief leads us to the memoir’s theme and point. Whether you’re just starting your memoir\, already have several drafts\, are struggling with a proposal or are getting rejections for “I didn’t connect” or “I don’t know who the audience is\,” these exercises will strengthen your understanding of your work. \n\n\n\nPlease bring writing materials and be prepared to write! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE examples of memoir “points”\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND the difference between plot and story (what and why)\n\n\n\nLEARN how point and theme are connected\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the scene that their memoir requires in order to exist\n\n\n\nPRACTICE finding the heart of their memoir\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for intermediate and advanced memorists…\n\n\n\n\nwho are struggling to complete a memoir draft\n\n\n\nwho can’t see the forest for the trees in their story\n\n\n\nseeking clarity on their memoir’s focus\n\n\n\nwho are writing book proposals and stuck on the overview or the audience\n\n\n\ncurious about how their narrative connects with a larger audience\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFunny\, kind\, and direct\, Laraine Herring is a popular CRAFT TALKS presenter and one of our strongest voices on deeply personal writing that powerfully connects with readers. \n\n\n\nLaraine’s memoir\, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens\, was released in 2021 from Regal House. She’s the editor of the anthology Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction (Pact Press\, 2024) and a trilogy of writing books from Shambhala\, including Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice. A retired professor of creative writing and psychology\, Lariane has worked with writers for thirty years.  \n\n\n\nShe’s also an illustrator and a grief counselor and creator of The Grief Forest: a book about what we don’t talk about. She founded the online ‘zine Hags on Fire\, a place for women to share stories about menopause\, and co-designed The Imaginal Memoir Cave immersion program with Gayle Brandeis. Laraine’s work has appeared in The New York Times\, Tiferet\, The Rumpus\, The Manifest-Station\, and many more. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology and lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with many cats.REFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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