Finding the Core of Your Story
Benefit Workshop
to support Maui
Fall workshop : September 14th, 2023
Finding the Core of Your Story is a Live-on-Zoom workshop with Alan Watt.
100% of all proceeds will go to the Hawaii Community Foundation to support Maui.
Whether you’re writing a novel, memoir, or screenplay, at the heart of your story lies a dilemma for your protagonist. In this one-hour workshop, through exercises and discussion, you will discover and clarify the central struggle. Remember that character suggests plot. When you connect to your protagonist’s dilemma, plot emerges naturally and in the most surprising ways.
Please join me Thursday, September 14th, at 12:00 p.m. (PDT) for a 1-hour Finding the Core of Your Story workshop.
Empty your heart onto the page.
And then, if you can, please empty your pockets for the people of Maui.
Every cent goes here: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
We can’t do much, but let’s do something.
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 14th, at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
WHERE: Live on Zoom with Alan Watt
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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.
