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The YWP Book Club will start reading Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart on July 24th. Each month, we all vote on a book to read together as a community, and this is what you picked for July/August! There will be discussions, activities, and even writing prompts based on the book we are reading posted every Monday. At the end of the month, we will have a party here at the YWP office! Come sit in our comfy chairs, or live stream in to talk about the end of the book (we will have snacks).
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This workshop will show you how to comment and give feedback on the work of your fellow YWP writers.
Commenting on someone's piece is not just saying "Great job!" or "I LOVED it!" Giving someone a productive, informative, and useful comment goes far beyond a simple "Nice poem" one-liner. In this workshop, you will be learning about the multiple factors that should be included in a comment, and the language used around commenting.
Commenting on someone's piece is not just saying "Great job!" or "I LOVED it!" Giving someone a productive, informative, and useful comment goes far beyond a simple "Nice poem" one-liner. In this workshop, you will be learning about the multiple factors that should be included in a comment, and the language used around commenting.
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This workshop is designed to help you find and explore story ideas BUT but but maybe not finish anything.
We know that's contrarian, but we want you to find an idea you're excited about. So, if in doing this workshop, you find that idea, well, that's going to be the story you end up finishing.
We know that's contrarian, but we want you to find an idea you're excited about. So, if in doing this workshop, you find that idea, well, that's going to be the story you end up finishing.
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You've all heard of The Moth -- True Stories Told Live. Here's more: https://themoth.org/
The aim of this workshop is to help you create, practice and gain enthusiasm for a story you might like to present to a live audience.
This workshop will involve you both writing and telling stories and using this site's audio record function to help you bring your written voice and your spoken voice closer together. By the time you are done, we are confident you'll have a story that you like and know well enough to tell it live.
The aim of this workshop is to help you create, practice and gain enthusiasm for a story you might like to present to a live audience.
This workshop will involve you both writing and telling stories and using this site's audio record function to help you bring your written voice and your spoken voice closer together. By the time you are done, we are confident you'll have a story that you like and know well enough to tell it live.
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This workshop will help you make strong recordings of yourself narrating your favorite posts. YWP loves to have you use audio for two reasons:
- When you say your piece out loud you'll discover some changes that need to be made.
- We have several publication outlets that want your voice narrating your piece.
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First, some acknowledgments to De Controleon (not a real name) at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tekstbazaar/ for creating the "Bag Lady" 5-photo story.
This workshop is for play. And for learning a bit about photography.
This workshop is for play. And for learning a bit about photography.
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This workshop is aimed at getting you to tell a tale. And this workshop will show how a story can come from the seemingly commonplace and how it can come from some small thing that happens to you, or that you see, or that comes out of your brain (by accident.) We'll emphasize prose, but if you feel like writing narrative poetry -- go for it.