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Creative WritingGetting Started in Children’s Books: Part OneF11-C01
Getting Started in Children’s Books: Part TwoF11-C02
Writing Your Memoirs: The Surprise Story of Your LifeF11-C03
2000 Word ClubF11-C04
Writing to Make a DifferenceF11-C05
Rochester Stories Workshop: What’s Your Rochester Story?F11-C06
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“How Do I Love Thee?” Romantic Love Poems Through the AgesTuesday, February 7, 7 p.m. Afternoon TeaWed., Feb. 8, 4:30 - 6 p.m. The Bertrand Russell SocietyHosted by Phil Ebersol Book Kick-off: Angels Flying Backwards, by Iris MillerThursday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. Valentine’s Day card-making workshop for families.Saturday February 11, 10 a.m. - noon Genesee Reading SeriesHosted by Wanda Schubmehl Click here for more February Events...
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Interested in writing for children? This seminar will get you started. Published children’s author and illustrator Will Hubbell provides three hours of inspiration and information. The emphasis will be the unique challenges and opportunities of the field. The history and aesthetics of writing for children will also be covered. 
Have you written a children’s book? Are you considering writing one? Published children’s author and illustrator Will Hubbell provides three hours of essential information on getting published for aspiring children’s authors. Topics include the nut-and-bolts of submission, the publishing process, agents, contracts, and even taxes. 
If you’re interested in writing about your life but don’t know where to start, this is the class for you. We’ll discuss different forms of memoir and do writing exercises that will help you find the stories inside the flow of events in your life. Writing does more than put down what you already know; it helps you discover new meanings. We’ll learn the basics of how to “show, not tell” so that your writing can come alive. You’ll learn how to use dialog, description, action, inner thoughts and summary the way a fiction writer would to write compelling stories. 
The most useful 2000 words in the English language may be yours. The purpose of the 2000 Word Club is to offer class members an opportunity to explore the various creative writing genres—fiction, memoir, creative essay, experimental forms, and even chapters of larger works—to find the form most amenable to their experience and imagination. The only requirement, manuscripts must be under 2000 words. Class members manuscripts are critiqued in a cordial and supportive environment, craft issues discussed, and suggestions made to make manuscripts more readable/marketable.
What can we do to make a difference in this magnificent and sorry world? Write. Write your story; investigate and report another’s; write opinion pieces; write fiction. You can move readers to understand, care and take action. In this class we’ll do writing exercises to accomplish three things: 1) identify your subject and theme, 2) learn the elements of craft that ensure your impact on the reader, and 3) help structure your work. Whatever you’re passionate about, this class will help you to get it on paper and offer something to help change the world.
In this workshop we’ll do writing exercises that will bring out your story, and help you polish the story you want to tell in an engaging and succinct manner. Writing does more than state what you already know—it helps you discover new meanings in that story. You’ll learn the basics of “show, not tell,” so that your story will come alive. You’ll learn to use dialogue, description, action, internal monologue, and summary the way a fiction writer would to tell your Rochester story in a way that others will want to hear, and will remember.