[NEohioPAL]Writing Your Novel: FICTION WORKSHOPS AT FAIRMOUNT

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To Register call 440-338-3171
For more information http://www.fairmountcenter.org/writing.htm
<http://www.fairmountcenter.org/writing.htm> =20

THE FAIRMOUNT SCHOOL OF WRITING PRESENTS

Two Great Fiction Workshops with Novelist, Film Producer, Scott Lax
FOR ADULTS: =20
Fiction Workshop: The World of the Novel

FOR TEENS: =20
Getting Started on Your Novel

FOR ADULTS:  Fiction Workshop: The World of the Novel=20
Six consecutive Tuesday evenings=20
September 19 through October 24, from 7 PM - 9 PM=20
Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center. =20
$195
Texts will be supplied.

Join Scott Lax <http://www.scottlax.com/> for a completely different
kind of six-week workshop on novel writing. While it will cover the
usual writers' workshop basics of character development, plot and
setting, this workshop will delve into the utterly unique, beautiful and
sometimes terrifying world of the novel. Influenced by the ideas of
Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Art of the Novel),
as well as by Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried, July, July) and
other great fiction writers such as Philip Roth, Lax will guide workshop
participants on a trip into the minds and universes of literary
novelists, as well as the literary novel as an art form. We will talk
about these questions and more: What is a story and when is it worthy of
being turned into a novel? Where do imagination and experience connect
in your writing? How do you access your own truth and put it into novel
form? This is not a workshop that will teach you how to write the next
The Devil Wears Prada or help you get on Oprah. Rather, you should come
out of it with a better idea of whether you are willing to take the next
step to leave your own blood, sweat and tears on the page of your novel.

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FOR TEENS:  Getting Started on Your Novel=20
A workshop for teens with novelist Scott Lax
Ages 13 -18
$175.00
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8 beginning September 21=20
Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center=20

Novel and short-story writing are mysterious and daunting tasks for any
young writer. How do you get started? What does writing a novel or
short-story entail? What are the elements of the fiction that can help
you get published someday?=20

Join novelist and educator Scott Lax, whose award-winning first novel,
The Year That Trembled, a coming-of-age-story about a group of older
teens in the Chagrin Valley in 1970, which was turned into a full-length
feature film and a produced two-act stage play, for a six-week workshop
on the basics of novel and short-story writing.  Take the journey
through character development, creating a believable setting, and the
art of dialogue, as we move toward a greater understanding of what being
a novelist is all about.

The workshop will entail talking, writing and a little reading-out-loud
for those students who are comfortable with it. For others, sit back,
write, learn and enjoy the thrill of creating a short novel or story of
your own over six weeks.

Scott has taught teenagers in high school settings. His goal is to
enhance the efforts of your teachers by helping you become a more
confident, skillful and enthusiastic writer.

At the end of the session two awards will be given: The Young Toni
Morrison Award and The Young Hemingway Award for class participants.
Come and enjoy the art of the novel and increase your creative writing
skills along the way.

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PRESENTS<br>
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Two Great Fiction Workshops with Novelist, Film Producer, Scott Lax<br>
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face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>FOR =
ADULTS:  <br>
Fiction Workshop: The World of the Novel<br>
<br>
FOR TEENS:  <br>
Getting Started on Your Novel</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=3D2 color=3Dmaroon face=3DArial><span =
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face=3DArial><span
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ADULTS:  Fiction
Workshop: The World of the Novel</span></font></b></strong><font =
size=3D2
face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <br>
Six consecutive Tuesday evenings <br>
September 19 through October 24, from 7 PM – 9 PM <br>
Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center.  <br>
$195<br>
Texts will be supplied.<b><span =
style=3D'font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>

Join <a href=3D"http://www.scottlax.com/">Scott =
Lax</a> for a
completely different kind of six-week workshop on novel writing. While =
it will
cover the usual writers’ workshop basics of character development, =
plot
and setting, this workshop will delve into the utterly unique, beautiful =
and
sometimes terrifying world of the novel. Influenced by the ideas of =
Milan
Kundera (The =
Unbearable
Lightness of Being; =
The Art of the =
Novel),
as well as by Tim O’Brien (The Things They =
Carried, July, =
July)
and other great fiction writers such as Philip Roth, Lax will guide =
workshop
participants on a trip into the minds and universes of literary =
novelists, as
well as the literary novel as an art form. We will talk about these =
questions
and more: What is a story and when is it worthy of being turned into a =
novel?
Where do imagination and experience connect in your writing? How do you =
access
your own truth and put it into novel form? This is not a workshop that =
will
teach you how to write the next The Devil Wears Prada or help you get on =
Oprah.
Rather, you should come out of it with a better idea of whether you are =
willing
to take the next step to leave your own blood, sweat and tears on the =
page of
your novel. <o:p></o:p>

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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>FOR =
TEENS:  Getting
Started on Your Novel</span></font></b></strong><font size=3D2 =
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <br>
A workshop for teens with novelist Scott Lax<br>
Ages 13 -18<br>
$175.00<br>
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8 beginning September 21 <br>
Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

Novel and short-story writing are mysterious and =
daunting
tasks for any young writer. How do you get started? What does writing a =
novel
or short-story entail? What are the elements of the fiction that can =
help you
get published someday? <o:p></o:p>

Join novelist and educator Scott Lax, whose =
award-winning
first novel, =
The Year
That Trembled, a coming-of-age-story about a =
group of
older teens in the Chagrin Valley in 1970, which was turned into a =
full-length
feature film and a produced two-act stage play, for a six-week workshop =
on the
basics of novel and short-story writing.  Take the journey through
character development, creating a believable setting, and the art of =
dialogue,
as we move toward a greater understanding of what being a novelist is =
all
about. 
 
The workshop will entail talking, writing and a little reading-out-loud =
for
those students who are comfortable with it. For others, sit back, write, =
learn
and enjoy the thrill of creating a short novel or story of your own over =
six
weeks. 
 
Scott has taught teenagers in high school settings. His goal is to =
enhance the
efforts of your teachers by helping you become a more confident, =
skillful and
enthusiastic writer. 
 
At the end of the session two awards will be given: The Young Toni =
Morrison
Award and The Young Hemingway Award for class participants. Come and =
enjoy the
art of the novel and increase your creative writing skills along the =
way.<o:p></o:p>

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