upcoming

• Jill teaches Bang the Keys Workshop this Summer in the Catskills
  
  
• Look for Jill's feature story, "The Big Bang", in the July issue of The Writer Magazine.
  
  
• Order Jill’s New Book (or “Bang Book”)!

  

  Bang the Keys: Four Steps to a Lifelong Writing Practice

  By Jill Dearman.

  Pub. Date: Aug. 4, 2009 (Penguin/Alpha)

  Jill@JillDearman.com / www.bangthekeys.com

  At last! A writing workshop in a book for the 21st century concentration-challenged writer, which brings a mischievous, effective, and literate approach to the craft and practice of writing. Based on eternal principles that work for scribes of all stripes –– whether those who write prose or scripts, short form or long –– this practical, but erudite compendium contains energetic and original ideas for writers who have become masters at setting their own mind traps, but who long to be set free with an elegant set of KEYS.

  Jill Dearman is the rising writing guru of the modern era who has already helped legions of published, but pressured authors as well as searching yet serious new inksters to apply a method to their artistic madness. There is no problem a writer faces that she cannot empathize with and throw an armful of clever and penetrating exercises at. If you’re game to write yourself out of a corner, and re-invent your writing life, she just might be able to solve her most challenging mystery yet … you!

  Four elegant steps, for when you’re ready to dance with your muse, instead of singing the blues:

  • B is for Begin with your strongest idea.

  • A is for Arrange your material into a concrete form.

  • N is for nurture your project with love, so that others may love it too.

  • G is for complete it, and let it GO out into the world to live independently.
  

  Open this book; BANG the Keys.
  

  Writing Coach and editor Jill Dearman has been teaching her Bang the Keys philosophy of writing to new storytellers and published professionals alike since 2003, most recently at New York University. She has also taught journalism at NYU since 2001, and as a journalist has written for The Writer, New York Daily News, Time Out New York and other publications. Her award-winning short stories and essays have been published in numerous literary magazines including Lilith, New York Stories, The Portland Review, North Atlantic Review and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School where she also taught, under Francine Prose, in the Writing and Democracy Program.

Bang the Keys: Four Steps to a Lifelong Writing Practice. Order now!