Dark Night of the Soul
Benefit Workshop
to support Doctors Without Borders
Fall workshop : November 10th, 2023
Dark Night of the Soul is a Live-on-Zoom workshop with Alan Watt.
100% of all proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders to help support victims in Israel and Palestine.
“The event that occurs at the second act curtain triggers the end of the movie.”
– Billy Wilder
In every story, your protagonist undergoes a baptism by fire. It is only through this crucible, this spiritual death of sorts, that they are reborn and ultimately transformed. It is this experience that keeps your reader up at night, reading by flashlight as they wonder how on earth your protagonist will ever achieve their goal.
In this workshop, we will explore how to create a powerful dark night of the soul moment for your protagonist, and its relationship to transformation.
Please join me Friday, November 10th, at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) for a 1-hour Dark Night of the Soul workshop.
Empty your heart onto the page.
And then, if you can, please empty your pockets for the people of Israel and Palestine. (Not required to join the workshop.)
Every cent goes here: Doctors Without Borders
We can’t do much, but let’s do something.
WHEN: Friday, Nov. 10th, at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
WHERE: Live on Zoom with Alan Watt
HOW DO I JOIN THE WORKSHOP?
Just send us an email at info@lawriterslab.com with “Benefit workshop” in the subject heading and we’ll send you the Zoom link.
meet your teacher Alan Watt
Hi, I’m Al. They call me the Writer Whisperer.
I’m the L.A. Times bestselling author of the novels, Diamond Dogs and Days Are Gone, and the recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, a Book Sense Pick, a New York Time’s New and Noteworthy book pick, and winner of France’s Prix Printemps for best foreign novel of the year. Along with the national bestseller, The 90-Day Novel®, (Amazon’s #1 book on writing for five months) the lab has published five other books on writing. I teach a process of marrying the wildness of your imagination to the rigor of structure, and my students span the range from first-time writers to best-selling authors and filmmakers who’ve won numerous accolades for their work including the Pulitzer Prize.
I’m also the writer/director of the independent feature, Eddie, Kill the President (formerly Interior Night), which won four best feature awards at U.S. film festivals as well as The Boston Film Festival’s Filmmaker Visionary Award. Oh, I also had a small part on Seinfeld back in the 90s when I had a thick lustrous head of chestnut hair. It’s the Chinese gum episode. I’m the movie theater vendor who sells Kramer the vile hotdog.
