STORY SEMINAR - VIRTUAL WRITING CLASS

Avraham Azrieli’s Story Seminar will take participants through a stimulating journey of 8-weekly sessions, starting with the Creative Inception (ideas, characters, situations, themes, fertile daydreams), through Plotting (chain reactions, plausible yet unexpected, cliffhangers), Characters (who, what, why, where, and the arc of change), Voices (authenticity, hearts and minds, point(s) of view), Emoting Provocations (conflicts, humor, and the six senses), Telling It (outlining - or not), writing, editing, revising, and arriving at ‘The End’), and Reaching Audiences (traditional / indie, publishing platforms, and marketing).

Classes will take place over Zoom only on Monday evenings from 7pm - 8:30pm, September 15 through November 10. There is no class on September 22.

FPCT Members are eligible for a 10% discount. Please email Education@fpct.org for details before registering.

Bio: Avraham Azrieli writes novels, screenplays and theater plays. His novel The Elixirist, a coming-of-age adventure set in the ancient Middle East, won the 2021 Reviewers Choice Award - Reader Views. Deborah Rising (HarperCollins, 2016), featuring the first woman to lead a nation in human history, won the 2017 Illumination Book Award. An earlier book, One Step Ahead – A Mother of Seven Escaping Hitler’s Claws, inspired the musical By Wheel and by Wing. A graduate of Columbia University Law School in New York, Azrieli had represented clients in numerous complex cases before trial and appeals courts, including the United States Supreme Court. www.AzrieliBooks.com