Please reach us at emmy@emmylaybourne.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
I'm very, very good at helping people with their writing and I love doing it. For a while now, I've been thinking about teaching online or becoming a professor. This one-on-one work offers me a chance to help people more directly.
I have three reasons for you.
1. After a long career as a novelist, ghostwriter, screenwriter, voice director, actor, lyricist, line editor, and comedy improviser, I'm really good with story. I've synthesized a lot of knowledge about craft and structure and scene work. Basically, I'm wicked smart about this stuff.
2. I LOVE collaborating. I love helping people understand story structure, define characters, add tension, keep the stakes high, remove clutter from their writing, craft heart-stopping scenes, etc, etc.
3. I'm super, freaking nice. I've been on the receiving end of lots of harsh and hopeless notes. I know how to talk to creatives - I know how to nurture talent - and I know how to motivate artists to reach for their best work.
I can help you with all of those. My vast experience in all these fields gives me expertise galore.
Please email me at emmy@emmylaybourne.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
First, we'll do a playful and easy warm-up. We’ll take 5 minutes for that.
Afterward, we'll have a chance to share what we wrote.
Then I’ll give a second prompt and we’ll write for 45 minutes. I’ll give a heads-up when we get to 40 minutes.
After that, you’ll again get to choose if you want to share or not.
Note: we only read aloud what we wrote during the session.
I will give each reader some feedback - noting what I like about their work and what's memorable. Always positive and supportive, because the writing we all do is brand new to the world!
When you come to the workshop, you are free to write on whatever you want. You can write on a novel in progress, or draft a journal entry or brainstorm a To-do list! You could use the prompt in some weird way, or go off one single word from the prompt, or you can forget it entirely. What I'm saying is you are free to write on whatever you like~
No worries at all! There is never any pressure to share what you've written aloud. It's optional - and sometimes we only have time to hear from a few writers, anyway.
And I really want to hear them! Please email me at the contact form below.! Thanks, pal!
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