Workshops
To assure personalized instruction, all classes are limited to 25 participants. Classes without a minimum enrollment of 5 participants will be subject to cancellation two days before the class start date.
Our classes are held in the Athena Workshops Forum. To get a sense of how the forums work, you can visit the public area, ask a question or sign the guest book. All classes are held in private forums open only to class participants.
$20 for 2 week classes with one presenter. Prices vary with multiple presenters or longer sessions.
Registration is easy. Simply, e-mail us at: info@athenacrits.com or fill out the form on our Contact page. Let us know which workshop you wish to attend and how you want to pay (PayPal, credit card, check or money order).
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Our Workshop Schedule
Fall 2009
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October 12-23 “Show – Don’t Tell” with multi-published author Flo Fitzpatrick
Are your characters spending too much time explaining, telling, thinking,
feeling, musing, wondering or debating? Let’s turn those “tell” sentences into “showstoppers!”
Join Flo Fitzpatrick for a fun workshop that will rev up your writing by emphasizing action, body language and dialogue as techniques for portraying your characters’ thoughts and feelings.
$20.00 (limit 25 participants)
To register or find out more about Athena Critique Services visit
http://www.athenacrits.com or e-mail info @ athenacrits.com (no spaces)
February 19th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Hi,
I’m interested in the “…Wings on Backstory…” class. However, there’s not enough information about it. Will it be twice per week? Daily? Will there be a chance to post the areas in my ms that are concerning me. Creating ones for practice is not at as enticing as working on the one I’ve got.
Thanks,
Robin
February 19th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Hi, Robin. Thanks for asking.
Our online workshops don’t have a meeting time, per se. I generally post lectures each morning, Monday through Friday. The lectures are intended to open up the discussion and everyone is invited to chime in with her thoughts or questions.
There will be 4 assignments over the course of the two weeks. The assignments generally invite you to post parts of your WIP. Unlike most of our workshops, Backstory is looking at some very specific techniques for portraying backstory. You may have to edit or add scenes that use the suggested techniques for the exercise. In other words, if you don’t have a flashback scene you’ll have to create one for the flashback exercise.
Please, let me know if I can answer any additional questions.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I should add that I check in several times each day to check on the discussion. Some discussions are very lively. Other days the class is mostly quiet as everyone is busy working on assignments.
November 8th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Hi!
I was just wondering if you will be offering any workshops this month or next? Will you be offering the Backstory workshop in the near future?
Thanks!
Jenn
November 9th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Hi Jennifer–
Thanks for you interest!
I’ve been doing workshops for the FF&P chapter of RWA all fall and haven’t had time to schedule an Athena workshop. We will be working on our Spring schedule soon. Check back in a week or two and we’ll have it up. I’m sure we’ll be offering the backstory workshop.
Teresa
February 9th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
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