Fire Up Your Writing as the Heat Rises: Bang the Keys Summer Writing Seminars!

Tues. July 13 One Night Only /6:30 to 9:30pm $95
“BANG UP YOUR STRUCTURE SKILLS”
Character is destiny, but if your plot is slack you may be destined for disappointment when you submit your work in the real world. Similarly, spontaneity is grand, but not for serious scribes who want to complete a meaningful piece of writing in this lifetime. Main Plot: You will learn and practice techniques for developing and tightening the structure of your writing, so that your readers/viewers will experience a pleasurable sense of suspense and engagement, not a desire to skim through in search of the good parts. Subplot: You will fight your inner procrastinator and get a quick and dirty lesson in organizing your work, your life, and the more adolescent “I’ll do it later” voices in your head.Open to writers of all levels and genres. Costumes optional.'

Sat. July 17 / All Day 10am to 4pm $185
“BANG ON THROUGH TO THE END OF THE YEAR”
The temperature is rising and New Year’s Rockin’ Eve seems so far away. But you know how much time it takes to develop and refine your ideas, to make your characters (whether fictional, or real) into compelling creations on the page, to build narrative momentum, to revise and polish so that your work stands out from the crowd …Geez! That’s a lot of work. And TIME. Don’t just tone up your calves by running on the beach this summer, tone up your craftsmanship and come up with a plan that will get your project done by the time we ring in the New Year. In This One Day Seminar You Will:
• Immerse yourself in inventive and eternal narrative techniques
• Reconnect to your writing, and commit or re-commit to the project you care most deeply about.
• Do writing exercises that help you to up the ante in your prose or plays, and push past previous limits in your craftsmanship. Become a better writer. For yourself and for your readers/viewers.
• Create and commit to a “no b.s.” writing schedule and six month writing plan that will take you to the end of the year, so that you can enjoy a fabulous New Year’s party on December 31, not another pity party for you and your unfinished book or script! Open to writers of all levels and genres.

Location for both: Broadway near 25th Street, Manhattan.
SPECIAL DISCOUNT: Sign up for both by June 30 and pay only $250 (save $30)
Contact: JillDearman@gmail.com or 212.841.0177

He was scared too! What if no one liked his shaggy dog tale?	You see we CAN all get along.
They warmed up at the (ballet) bar	Their fingers danced and tapped.
She knows that reading goes with writing.	And bangin’ the piano keys (by osmosis) works wonders too!
Many magical exercises begin with a hat ...	And leads to uninhibited writing ...
And more ...	And more still, and mo' better. No blues.
BANG THE KEYS NYC WORKSHOPS: JOIN THE FUN & GET SOME WORK DONE. It's not a crtiquing workshop; it's an adventure in craft and practice. Choose Art Over Idiocy! (And for a taste of what it's like, click here!)

 

Jill does mini-workshop at KGB Bar in Manhattan, Nov. 2009, with hypnotist Maggie Dubris.

 

Bang the Keys, Catskills! July 2009, Upstate, NY

 

Bay Area Book Tour, Aug, 2009, with stops at Red Hill Books in San Fran, the Four-Eyed Frog in Medocino, and more ..

 

Book Court, Sept 2009, Brooklyn, NY