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Will Estes
Signum Tutorials Program
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SPACE Preceptor
Brewer of coffee, one of the dialogue brethren
Will Estes inhabits the liminal space between country music and Greek tragedy.
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Creative Writing: Introduction To Writing In Community
Discussion-based Medium intensity
Have you wanted to write a story but didn't know how to get words onto a blank page? Once the words were there, did you wonder how to find out if those words affected your reader the way you meant them to?
In this SPACE module, we will look at where ideas for stories come from. We will take our ide...
Creative Writing: Start Writing Mysteries!
Mixed Lecture/Discussion Medium intensity
So you think you'd like to write a mystery, but it seems overwhelming? Join us to examine the essential elements of a murder mystery: a setting, a sleuth, a murder victim, the murder method, a cast of suspects, the cast who assist the sleuth in investigating and solving the murder, as well as lists ...
Creative Writing: Workshop
Discussion-based High intensity
We will meet to blend learning, discussion, and playing games with reading, appreciating, and commenting on one another’s work as it is submitted for peer review. Writers are encouraged—but never required—to submit new pieces in any state of draftiness or readiness up to 2,000 words each week for pe...
Year of the Novel: Creative Writing Series Non-Sequential Series
Discussion-based High intensity
Are you ready for an adventure in writing? The Year of the Novel provides support, in depth practice of the writing craft, and encouraging feedback for your story (even if it's not a novel). One cluster of modules is for Seedling Stories, just in their beginning stages; one is for Sapling Stories ...
- Creative Writing: Character & Voice (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Plot & Structure (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Setting & Worldbuilding (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Workshop (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Anatomy of a Scene (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Emotional Stakes (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Discovering Novel Revision (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Workshop (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: The Different Body Problem (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Late-Stage Revisions (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Tree Workshop (Year of the Novel)
- Creative Writing: Author Career Thinking and Publishing Paths (Year of the Novel)