MasterPlayWorks© 
 2012  Services. 

Master CRAFT Works: The Character Generated Plot in Drama and Prose Fiction.

Twice weekly (Wednesday evening, Saturday morning).  Five Weeks. Twenty hours.

Interdisciplinary craft workshop/seminar for visual artists, musicians, dramatists, and prose fiction writers:    
learning and re-learning while expanding common ground.

Who did what to whom: the who, what, where and when of the story. The How and Why of the plot.         

• *Live, on-line, interactive five-week, 20 hour craft workshop/seminars for Dramatists (film, stage and television)

• Discover the difference between Story and Plot

• Master the Character Generated Plot.

• Play and Screen play, Prose Fiction reading service included: six month follow-up.

• Placing your play/novel/short story/movie: writing the synopsis that will improve your one page pitch.

• Six persons, maximum.

• Early sign-up discount.

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Master TEXT Works: Ongoing

For induividual drama writers seeking constructive criticism of complete early drafts.

What's the Big Idea?  Got your story straight?   

• Dramaturgical services for playwrights. Two week turn-around. 

• Script development/editorial services for screenwriters. Two week turn-around.

• Multi-media story development for writers of graphic novels and mixed media.

• Individual attention, extensive reader's report.

• Six month follow up sessions available.

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Master BOOK Works: Ongoing

Craft seminar/workshop for individual prose writers: novellas, novels and short fiction.

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader: no joy in the writer, no joy in the reader." W & H Burnett. 

• Writing prose fiction: novels and short stories that enlighten as they entertain.

• Fiction dialogue that hits and sticks: free indirect speech, aka. the free indirect style.

• *On-line, live (Skype, voice only), interactive 8 weeks (sixteen hours) : the craft and practice of prose fiction. 

• Six writer/participants, maximum, per eight week, 16 hr workshop duration.

• Complete manuscript reading and editorial services available post-workshop. Quick turn-around.

• Ms. placement: the perfect query letter to agents and publishers.

• Six month follow up session available. How has your work progressed? Are you making headway?

• Early sign-up discount.

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Master CHARACTER Works: Ongoing

Private sessions tailored to the needs of individual writers just starting out.

"I'm sorry.... who did you say you were again?"   Write characters who make strong, lasting impressions.

• The character generated plot in Drama and Prose fiction.

• The dramatic monologue: know your characters inside out.

• Making strong characters is like herding cats... who's in charge here?

• Constructing characters who'll tell the story you want to tell.

• Character, Story, Plot: it all comes back to the character driven evolution of narrative.

• Work form home: *Ten to fifteen hours, live and on line according to your schedule and your needs.•    

• Six month follow up session available.

• Contact MasterPlayWorks for details.
  
  
    
  *All workshops offered live, interactive,  and on-line via. Skype (audio only... we don't need video.  It's all about hearing each other's words).

Prose and Drama Workshops:  New Format, New Prices:  Fall, 2011