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Best Creative Writing Classes in Los Angeles

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It is said that all of us have locked inside at least one good story to tell. Through lectures on craft, short writing exercises, assignments, and discussion, you learn how to tell yours. Topics include plot, point-of-view, setting, description, conflict, characterization, dialogue, tension, rewriting, and submission strategies.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Los Angeles

Categories: Short Story

Level: Beginner

Course length: 10 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: 15

Price: $720.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.uclaextension.edu/writing-journalism/creative...


This course introduces screenwriters, writers of fiction and drama, and creators of new media to the aesthetic and techniques of creating visual, dramatically compelling scripts. Your major project is to complete and polish an outline and the opening scene of your script based on a public domain material from literary, theatrical, mythical, and traditional sources.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Los Angeles

Categories: Screenplay

Level: Beginner

Course length: 10 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: 15

Price: $720.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.uclaextension.edu/writing-journalism/screenwr...


The 90-Day Screenplay helps you unlock the story within by guiding you through a process of marrying the wildness of your imagination to the rigor of structure.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Los Angeles

Categories: Screenplay

Level: Beginner

Course length: 14 sessions (1.5 hours)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $500.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://lawriterslab.com/online-writing-classes/90-day-sc...

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The 90-Day Novel is about making a contract with your subconscious. The 90-Day Novel is not about writing a polished first half of a novel, but rather, developing a coherent narrative, grounded in character, that leads to a transformation. When you connect to the heart of your story and hold your idea of the plot loosely…magic starts to happen.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Los Angeles

Categories: Book

Level: Beginner

Course length: 14 sessions (1.5 hours)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $500.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://lawriterslab.com/online-writing-classes/90-day-no...


The 90-Day Memoir is a concise, day-by-day investigation into a particular series of events that in some way shaped you. In The 90-Day Memoir you're going to learn to trust your subconscious. Your subconscious is the seat of your genius.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Los Angeles

Categories: Memoir

Level: Beginner

Course length: 14 sessions (1.5 hours)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $500.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://lawriterslab.com/online-writing-classes/90-day-me...

Book Proposal 1

Writing Pad


Through interesting craft lectures and targeted feedback, Thea will help you create a pitch perfect overview and an annotated outline that serves as a clear road map for your book. She’ll also help you design a marketing section that zeroes in on your audience, the need for your book, and sells you as the ideal person to write it.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Los Angeles

Categories: Book

Level: Any

Course length: 5 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $485.00

Start date: January, 2023

Website: https://writingpad.com/classes/online-book-proposal-1-cla...

Copywriting

Writing Pad


Through informative craft lectures and fun, in-class writing exercises, you’ll explore branded content creation, social media posting, advertising campaigns and gain a foundational understanding of SEO keywords, email marketing language, and best practices to help give you an edge over the competition.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Los Angeles

Categories: Copywriting, Content

Level: Any

Course length: 7 sessions (2 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $425.00

Start date: June, 2023

Website: https://writingpad.com/classes/online-copywriting-class-d...


A weekly generative creative writing workshop. Writers of all genres and skill levels are welcome to attend. These workshops are not lecture-based. We get right down to writing. We choose your writing prompts based on either a theme of the week, education, craft, or creative value.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Los Angeles

Categories: Book, Fiction, Essay, Poetry, Nonfiction, Short Story, Book

Level: Beginner

Course length: 1 session (2 hours)

Class size: 8

Price: $37.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-writing-workshop-al...

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