Write Here, Write Now: Beginning and Beginnings with Dan McDermott
Date(s): Monday, December 28, 2020, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Type(s): Workshop
Genre and Form(s): Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Mixed Genre, Novels, Short Stories
Cost: $5
About this Event
Need ideas to help you get started writing? Take a dip into our classes before you dive in! Presented in partnership with Phoenix College and Changing Hands Bookstore, Write Here, Write Now is a monthly pop-up workshop every 4th Monday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
This month: Beginning and Beginnings with Dan McDermott
The opening sentence of a short story, novel, memoir, essay, or any type of writing that purports to be a narrative, must arrest the reader's attention and foreshadow what's to come—both in quality and subject. This workshop will discuss how to begin writing and what to begin it with. We will dissect the openings of several master works, discuss ways in which a strong beginning directs the ending, talk about ways to create conflict from the start, how an engaging start will keep you going, and write some openings of our own.
