Kate’s Most Popular Classes and Presentations:
Re-Visioning Story
Do you have a draft of a novel or memoir underway but don’t know the next step? Not sure how to approach revision? Find out what you need for the story’s opening, narrative arc, and character connections––as essential in memoir as it is in fiction. Learn dialogue tips to bring your characters to life. Discover what’s essential to include at the end of your story. Get practical guidelines needed for the re-vision of your narrative.
Write Your Life
How can you best write the story of your life? This class provides real world solutions to challenges memoir writers face. Find out how to cull your journals and mine your memories––even the hazy ones. Learn what you need to know about writing effective dialogue. Get the guidelines needed for telling that family secret. Get the essentials of writing life.
Can be tailored for any desired aspect of memoir writing. Also available for teens.
Smart Guide to Writing Stories
Find out the guidelines needed to move from blank page to a completed story. Discover the hard choices characters make as we explore story truths and ways to infuse emotion into your writing. Learn how to best capture the wonder of life. See how a memory can be developed into a narrative and how structure provides focus and shapes the meaning for stories, too.
Can be tailored for ages 9-11, middle school, or high school students.
Also Available:
Making a Scene
Scenes are the building blocks of every story written, whether fiction or nonfiction. Discover the difference between a scene and a chapter, and find out what you need for an effective cliffhanger. Find out how to cull out weak spots as you learn a scene’s essential components: a story occasion, a line of action, and the character response––and how to set your stakes and raise them. Learn tips needed to write the kind of scenes that make readers want to keep turning pages.
Developing Story
This workshop helps those early in the writing process develop a story idea upon the page. Learn essential elements of writing narrative, including developing scenes, narrative arc, strong characters, powerful imagery, and evocative settings. We’ll also learn the secret to writing secrets.
Now that You’ve Started, How Does it End?
This workshop is for writers who are stuck in the middle of the story and need ideas on finding a satisfying ending and tips on effective revising.
Cornerstones of Character
Discover the essential elements of writing characters in any narrative.
For sessions that explore a combination of developing character, dialogue, setting, timelines, and tension, Kate recommends the following:
Making it Real
Making it More Real
Get Real
These classes primarily differ in length of time and number of sessions offered.
Kate happily tailors her offerings to meet the needs of any audience. Click here to contact Kate for more information.
Re-Visioning Story
Do you have a draft of a novel or memoir underway but don’t know the next step? Not sure how to approach revision? Find out what you need for the story’s opening, narrative arc, and character connections––as essential in memoir as it is in fiction. Learn dialogue tips to bring your characters to life. Discover what’s essential to include at the end of your story. Get practical guidelines needed for the re-vision of your narrative.
Write Your Life
How can you best write the story of your life? This class provides real world solutions to challenges memoir writers face. Find out how to cull your journals and mine your memories––even the hazy ones. Learn what you need to know about writing effective dialogue. Get the guidelines needed for telling that family secret. Get the essentials of writing life.
Can be tailored for any desired aspect of memoir writing. Also available for teens.
Smart Guide to Writing Stories
Find out the guidelines needed to move from blank page to a completed story. Discover the hard choices characters make as we explore story truths and ways to infuse emotion into your writing. Learn how to best capture the wonder of life. See how a memory can be developed into a narrative and how structure provides focus and shapes the meaning for stories, too.
Can be tailored for ages 9-11, middle school, or high school students.
Also Available:
Making a Scene
Scenes are the building blocks of every story written, whether fiction or nonfiction. Discover the difference between a scene and a chapter, and find out what you need for an effective cliffhanger. Find out how to cull out weak spots as you learn a scene’s essential components: a story occasion, a line of action, and the character response––and how to set your stakes and raise them. Learn tips needed to write the kind of scenes that make readers want to keep turning pages.
Developing Story
This workshop helps those early in the writing process develop a story idea upon the page. Learn essential elements of writing narrative, including developing scenes, narrative arc, strong characters, powerful imagery, and evocative settings. We’ll also learn the secret to writing secrets.
Now that You’ve Started, How Does it End?
This workshop is for writers who are stuck in the middle of the story and need ideas on finding a satisfying ending and tips on effective revising.
Cornerstones of Character
Discover the essential elements of writing characters in any narrative.
For sessions that explore a combination of developing character, dialogue, setting, timelines, and tension, Kate recommends the following:
Making it Real
Making it More Real
Get Real
These classes primarily differ in length of time and number of sessions offered.
Kate happily tailors her offerings to meet the needs of any audience. Click here to contact Kate for more information.