August's Write On The Cusp is for you.
Spend a weekend immersed in fiction writing: getting started, storytelling techniques, characterization, voice, the experimental and the concrete. Walk away with insights to your process, methods to move your pen and a community of San Diego writers to call your own.
Are you writing? Need a kickstart to get you going? Join fellow writers and teachers Abbie Berry, Jon Oropeza and Joe Kane on the weekend of August 23-24.
Experiment with style
Is your writing stuck in one place? Wouldn't a fresh perspective be a good thing? What if you could gain five to ten different points of view on your work, all in one weekend?
- Start writing with playful free-writing exercises/activities that focus on experimenting with new approaches as well as developing fundamental skills.
- Invigorate your writing by sharing ideas and insights.
Not just free-writing
- Get immediate feedback from experienced teachers and writers - honesty and encouragement, never negativity.
- Editing exercises - Learn to prune, pare and plumb your paragraphs and phrases.
Here to there
Every writer is different. Every writer is in a different place with his/her artistic craft. Do any of us have all the answers? Probably not.
Let us help you figure out:
- Where you're at.
- Where you want to be.
- How you're going to get there.
Into a neighborhood
August's Write On The Cusp will be held at Ocean Beach. OB is a vibrating place, full of characters, bizarre happenings and interesting settings that we will use to inspire beautiful fiction.
- Explore the vibrant community of Ocean Beach.
- Be inspired by your city: The Pacific, the sand, the palm trees, the airplanes, the surfers, the freaks.
Into a community
- Develop relationships with San Diego publishers and writers.
- One-on-one time with experienced writers and publishers.
Space is limited. Join us on the weekend of August 23-24.