Instructor: Karen Dukess
Monday - Friday
June 24 -28 
9am – 12pm
5 Sessions

Have you started a story or essay and gotten stuck? Perhaps you’ll find a way out as we look at 8 narrative building blocks—voice, tone, character development, setting, and plot—as well as the nitty gritty of sentence construction as we consider helpful strategies for revision and completion.
We'll talk about what holds our writing back, from practical concerns like managing and structuring your time to more subtle obstacles in the work itself. You'll have the opportunity to receive support from a warm, constructive community and experiment with in-class writing prompts designed to help you discover new perspectives on your work-in-progress. This session is ideal for writers of all levels. 

Each participant will be expected to come to the meeting prepared to discuss the reading material and to write.  Class will meet at the Main Campus, 10 Meetinghouse Road.

Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party, “a spare, bittersweet page-turner (NYTimes),” which is set in Truro. She has been a tour guide in the former Soviet Union, a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations Development Programme. She has blogged on raising boys for The Huffington Post and written reviews for USA Today. She has a degree in Russian Studies from Brown University and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University. She lives with her family near New York City and spends as much time as possible in Truro, where she hosts the Castle Hill Author Talks, a series of interviews on zoom and in person.