If you test positive for Covid – Don’t come to class until you test negative. But let your teacher know and we’ll work to give you access to your missed classes via Zoom.
If you show Covid symptoms OR If you have been exposed to someone with Covid – Don’t come to class for at least 5 days after showing symptoms or exposure, and then take a test to confirm that you are negative. Let your teacher know and we’ll work to give you access to your missed classes via Zoom.
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The Writer’s Mind
The Writer’s Mind is an Intensive, meaning it happens in a short time span (1 day in NYC, or 2 days on Zoom, or 3 weeks Online). The course includes a mixture of lectures and exercises. It’s open to writers of any level. Farther down, you can view a syllabus for this course.
Where will you find the best ideas for stories and characters and concepts? Where will you find your most original thoughts? Where can you find the answers that evade you at the keyboard?
Your mind, of course. However, there are mental tricks and techniques and even areas of your mind of which you’re not quite aware. In this course, you’ll explore your mind in unexpected ways, which will help you create richer and deeper work and make the writing process easier.
Unlike a conventional writing course, this one gets you thinking about how you think—and how the most crucial work is often done when you’re not actually composing words.
When you unlock the mystery of your writer’s mind, you’ll be amazed by the things you discover.
A playful way to exercise writing muscles.
Cathy Heyman
retired psychotherapist
Notes
This is a cross-genre course, applicable to any kind of writing.
Upcoming Classes
NYC COVID Info
Price
Registration fee $25, paid once per term
3-Week
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Online
Anytime, week-long sessions
Tuition: $175
Syllabus
This course shows how to use your mind to discover hidden depths in your writing, in any genre. Course components:
Lectures
Writing exercises
New York City/Zoom classes
The syllabus varies from teacher to teacher, term to term. Many topics will be similar to those covered in the Online classes.
Online classes
Week 1
Easy Breezy: Simple tricks that bring positive adjustments. Mental roaming as a technique to solve problems and invite ideas. Rituals and routines that ease you into the writing zone.
Week 2
Different Angles: Brainstorming to widen your possibilities. Enriching your work with surprising combinations. Freeing your imagination through child’s play.
Week 3
Going Deep: Delving into dreams and dreamlike ideas. Understanding the Jungian shadow in yourself and your characters. Sifting through memories, some of which you thought you forgot.
Note: Content may vary among individual classes.
Teachers
Emma Stephenson
Emma Stephenson is Gotham’s Director of Communications & Events, the editor of Gotham’s literary magazine The Razor, and a co-creator of The Writer’s Mind course. She has published prose poems in Bullshit Lit’s 2nd Anthology, Masks Literary Magazine, and Passing Through. She has also served as education coordinator for Symphony Space’s Thalia Kids Book Club Camp. Emma holds a BA from Emerson College.
Read moreEmma Stephenson
Emma Stephenson
is Gotham’s Director of Communications & Events, the editor of Gotham’s literary magazine The Razor, and a co-creator of The Writer’s Mind course. She has published prose poems in Bullshit Lit’s 2nd Anthology, Masks Literary Magazine, and Passing Through. She has also served as education coordinator for Symphony Space’s Thalia Kids Book Club Camp. Emma holds a BA from Emerson College.
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