Upcoming Lighthouse Classes
4-Week: Lighthouse North Story Builder Series II—Beginning Your Story (Louisville):
October 15-November 5, Mondays from 6:30-8:30pm
The Lighthouse North Story Builder is a four part series of four-week classes, all designed to help you build your entire story from the ground up. There are four components to the series: I.) Character and World-Building, II.) Beginnings, III.) Middles, and IV.) Endings. Take a single session or all four; you do not need to take the courses in order. Each class will include in-class discussions, lectures, writing exercises, and homework.
In this installment of the new Story Builder series, we'll explore our stories' expositions, inciting incidents, conflicts, quests, and dramatic questions. You'll learn what makes a good "hook," and how to build tension to suspend and captivate your reader inside your story. This in-depth, hands-on course will use concrete tools and exercises to generate beautiful beginnings, in class and beyond. Open to novelists, short story writers, memoirists, and essayists.
Please note: This is not a traditional workshop with formal critiques, though there may be opportunities for informal sharing. If you’d like your work critiqued in depth, please see the 8-week workshop listings.
Lighthouse North Directions and Parking
Lighthouse North is our new satellite location in Boulder County. Please follow the directions below to find us, as putting the address in your GPS will take you to the wrong place.
From Highway 36, take the McCaslin North exit. At the fourth light, turn west onto Century Drive (there's a Walgreens on the NW corner). Take your first left (daycare on that corner). When the road Y's stay right, and when you get to the stop sign, it's the two story brick building on your right with a sign outside that says Office Evolution. Inside the building, follow the Lighthouse North signs to your conference room.
Parking is free and located around the building.
8-Week: Lighthouse North—Advanced Novel and Short Story Workshop (Louisville):
October 16-December 3, Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30pm
This workshop is for advanced novelists and short story writers who are looking for ideas, perspective, inspiration, motivation, intellectual stimulation, and community. Welcome! Using constructive feedback, we'll help you refine essential elements of your fiction, such as characterization and character motivation, plot structure, conflict, setting, voice, point of view, theme, style, and emotional impact. Short student-selected reading assignments will show us diverse approaches to narrative. Bring a notebook, your creativity, and a positive attitude.
Prerequisite: At least one intermediate or advanced class or permission from the instructor. To apply, please email a writing sample (three to five pages) and a brief description of your workshop history to info@lighthousewriters.org.
Lighthouse North Directions and Parking
Lighthouse North is our new satellite location in Boulder County. Please follow the directions below to find us, as putting the address in your GPS will take you to the wrong place.
From Highway 36, take the McCaslin North exit. At the fourth light, turn west onto Century Drive (there's a Walgreens on the NW corner). Take your first left (daycare on that corner). When the road Y's stay right, and when you get to the stop sign, it's the two story brick building on your right with a sign outside that says Office Evolution. Inside the building, follow the Lighthouse North signs to your conference room.
Parking is free and located around the building.
Next up:
I generally teach Lighthouse classes/workshops during the fall sessions only. I won’t be teaching Lighthouse classes or workshops during the winter/spring sessions in 2019. But please check out my classes at the 2019 Lighthouse Lit Fest, and/or the Lighthouse Grand Lake Retreat! For notification on classes, you can also go to my Lighthouse faculty page and click, “Receive notifications when this instructor schedules a new session.”
