Structure Is Not A Dirty Word

Change your relationship with Structure in 10 weeks and gain the confidence to use it with skill in your work!

STRUCTURE is NOT a DIRTY WORD

  • Do you dread the S word?

  • Do you feel unprepared to discuss your work in terms of its STRUCTURE?

  • Would you like to know more about structure?

  • Do you feel trapped by structure?

  • Would you like to be able to create new structures that don't adhere to patriarchal norms or the boilerplate of the blockbuster?

  • Would you like to use the power of structure to unlock your work? 

Change your relationship with Structure in 10 weeks and gain the confidence to use it with skill in your work!

This workshop will provide you with a series of in-class writing exercises so that you can learn to feel how structure functions in your work and recognize it on the page. You will develop skills for pacing your work through the creation of builds, stichomythic exchanges and other dynamics to serve your stories. Because we all need structures to hold the risks we want to take.