Photo caption: workshops taught at Creekside bookstore by Bob Comenole, retired literature professor and regional novelist

Subway has the $5 Footlong, and now Creekside has the $17 Writing Workshop. Yes, that’s right: we’re now offering a One-Day workshop in various fields of creative writing. A 2-Hour seminar for the ludicrously low tuition of $17..!

Here are our first two offerings:

-Overcoming Writers Block

-Keeping a Writers Journal

The workshops begin January 26th, 2012 at Creekside Books & Coffehouse. And in each successive week we will be offering a new 1-Day seminar.

Here are all the single-session workshops the Writers Academy will feature:

Lessons in Enhancing Your Creative Abilities
Style: Develop Your Own Unique Writing Voice
How to Win Over Agents & Publishers
Writing Detective, Mystery & Suspense Stories
Editing and Proofreading Skills
How to Publish an E-Book
Screenwriting & Stagewriting
Power Writing: Advanced Writing Techniques
Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication
Master Class in Writing Powerful Scenes
Crafting Authentic Dialogue
When the Well is Dry: How To Get Great Ideas For Your Writing Projects

The workshops are scheduled based on demand—that is, the first workshop to fill up will be the first taught, and so on. Participants will have the opportunity to express their preferences for which class time and which sessions they desire. Students will be promptly notified when their choices are scheduled.

Classes are limited to only 12 students, so sign up today!

To ensure your seat is saved for ANY of the 1-Day seminars, please visit the registration site by clicking here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Skan2012

DESCRIPTIONS:

-Overcoming Writers Block

This workshop looks into the various causes of writers block and offers the most proven remedies for defeating this dreaded condition, one that, sooner or later, almost all writers face. It accounts for lack of inspiration, lack of creativity, and lack of production. If you have been blocked, this workshop will help you understand why, and—most importantly—will offer practical and specific solutions. Join others who have struggled as you have. This workshop will offer techniques that will put the spark back into what drew you to creative language in the first place.

-Keeping a Writers Journal

Great writers keep notebooks. Beginning writers ought to! Writers’ journals come in all flavors, and this workshop will explore a variety of techniques and strategies most useful for capturing & generating material that will ultimately prove useful in your polished works, no matter your chosen genre. Journaling is an indispensable aid to creativity. It also does more, much more: journaling frees you from the demands of always needing to be in control of perfect prose. It helps you monitor your progress as a writer, helps you discover patterns and meaning in the observations you make….and not least of all: helps you keep your writing commitments. It is probably the best tool in allowing you to trust in your own writing…and, naturally, to make sure you keep writing! The practice sharpens your vision and creates a wealth of material from which you can draw for your major works, enabling you to produce far more vivid and compelling material than those who begin with a cold page, unsupported by the depth of a good journal.

The workshops, taught at the Creekside bookstore by retired literature professor and regional novelist Bob Comenole, are generally 2 to 2-and-a-half hours in length. Classes meet in evening or afternoon sessions. They are designed for both beginning writers who wish to learn fundamental techniques and seasoned writers wishing to acquire more advanced skills; there are no prerequisites.

The Instructor: For more than 20 years Bob Comenole has taught writing, literature and communications at several colleges, including Miami University, Siena College, the State University of New York and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Mr. Comenole, author of Bushel & Lamp and the novella The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre, has just completed work on a collection of short stories, Perplexed by the Egg & Other Stories, as well as a collection of essays. He was also the producer of the children’s television series, StoryBrook.

To view what past students have said about the writing workshops, visit: http://infinitelycurious.us/Waterline/students.html

For further details, visit the Writers Academy Info Pages HERE: http://infinitelycurious.us/Waterline/courses/

Or call or visit the Creekside Bookstore!