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The Many-Layered Story

  • Thursdays, Sept. 18 - Oct. 9 (4 sessions)
  • 7-9 pm
  • The Ink Spot

Members' Registration
$96.00

 

Non-members' Registration
$120.00

 
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Add depth to your story with a layered approach to writing. In this 4-week class, published author Lisa Shapiro helps you build a strong foundation beneath your story. Start with character and create a base with plot and setting. Strengthen your structure by adding the layers of motivation and conflict, and make it beautiful with symbolism. Apply this technique to fiction, non-fiction and memoir. All levels of writers are welcome.

Lisa Shapiro is the author of three published novels as well as numerous published short stories. Her most recent book, co-authored with Deborah Reed, is The Chamber and the Cross. To research this book, Lisa and Deborah explored the English countryside, walked historic battlegrounds, studied the procedures for exhuming human remains and visited dozens of English manors, castles and medieval ruins. Lisa teaches composition and creative writing at Grossmont College.