The Writer’s Mind is an Intensive, meaning it happens in a short time span (1 day in NYC, or 2 days on Zoom, or 3 weeks Online). The course includes a mixture of lectures and exercises. It’s open to writers of any level. Farther down, you can view a syllabus for this course.
Where will you find the best ideas for stories and characters and concepts? Where will you find your most original thoughts? Where can you find the answers that evade you at the keyboard?
Your mind, of course. However, there are mental tricks and techniques and even areas of your mind of which you’re not quite aware. In this course, you’ll explore your mind in unexpected ways, which will help you create richer and deeper work and make the writing process easier.
Unlike a conventional writing course, this one gets you thinking about how you think—and how the most crucial work is often done when you’re not actually composing words.
When you unlock the mystery of your writer’s mind, you’ll be amazed by the things you discover.
Notes
- This is a cross-genre course, applicable to any kind of writing.
This course shows how to use your mind to discover hidden depths in your writing, in any genre. Course components:
- Lectures
- Writing exercises
Online classes
- Week 1
- Easy Breezy: Simple tricks that bring positive adjustments. Mental roaming as a technique to solve problems and invite ideas. Rituals and routines that ease you into the writing zone.
- Week 2
- Different Angles: Brainstorming to widen your possibilities. Enriching your work with surprising combinations. Freeing your imagination through child’s play.
- Week 3
- Going Deep: Delving into dreams and dreamlike ideas. Understanding the Jungian shadow in yourself and your characters. Sifting through memories, some of which you thought you forgot.
Note: Content may vary among individual classes.
About
- The Online classes bring students from all over the globe to Gotham—New York City’s most famous writing school.
- The Online classes happen asynchronously—not in “real time.” You can participate in class any time, day or night, but the classes advance week-by-week, and certain things should be accomplished within that week-long session.
- You can take an Online writing class from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection. The majority of our Online students are located in the U.S. but we also draw students from practically every country in the world.
- Tech support will be available.
- Aside from the convenience of time and location, you have a record of everything that transpires in class, which you can print out and keep for future reference. (The material is text and image, not video.)
