Mondays. april 21 - May 19
7-9PM, EST online
There are two essential questions every writer needs to ask and answer about each new work.
more often than not, we hardly give them a thought.
In most cases, failure to reach your audience can be traced to your not having properly considered these fundamental questions:
What’s this really about?
&
What container will most clearly support that?
In the Writers’ Container Lab, we’ll consider any of so-called containers (short story, novel, memoir, essay, full-length play, one-act play, monologue, radio play, online monologue, song, musical, opera, film, podcast serial, etc.) you may have an interest in pursuing.
And together we will try to understand what might be the emotional impact of various choices you make about how you deliver your story to its audience.
We will ask questions about choices around art form, yes, but also around questions of length, scope, tone, venue, aesthetic and form. Because in the end every choice you make will either help your audience connect to the emotional center of your work or interfere.
It’s your job to learn how to sort through it all to really take stock, to separate what’s connecting from what’s not.
Becauise no matter what sort of project you set out to create, work that connects with people emotionally is the work they never forget.
And that’s the work every writer wants to be making.
Mondays 7-9PM EST April 21 - May 19
Tuition: $475. Early Bird Discount: $225
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS MAR. 31
“I don’t think I would have ever pushed through the way that I needed to and wanted to if I hadn’t met Roland, if he hadn’t been as excited and interested in what I was doing in my work and hadn’t helped me to find that excitement again in myself. That’s what he continues to do for me and has in the years since.”
Lots of writing to prompts in class will be combined with one hour of homework each week.
Together we’ll be assembling a battery of questions you will learn to ask again and again about each new project you undertake.
At the end of our 5 weeks together you should have a new awareness of just how many choices there are to make that matter and deserve your careful attention.
You’ll be on your way to acquiring a clear-eyed approach to understanding your own work.
Understanding what you’ve made and how it works is key to being an effective shepherd in getting it out to the world.
Mondays 7-9PM EST April 21 - May 19
Tuition: $475. Early Bird Discount: $225
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS MAR. 31
Questions?
Email Roland today. rolandtec@gmail.com
The best way to maximize your time with us is to show up for all 5 sessions and share as much work for immediate feedback as possible. But if you have to miss, all classes will be recorded and made available for viewing online for a limited time.
“Roland Tec’s online playwriting course advanced my new script, and brought me into contact with a number of great peers all across the U.S. The bi-weekly gathering sessions on Zoom were at once informative, intense, and filled with plenty of laughter.”
“As a result of having only audited the first session of Roland Tec’s 3-day Advanced Monologue Weekend, I feel my new play is finally on its way. Several of the craft topics covered in Tec’s approach to monologue make me feel so much more in command of my script writing than ever before.”
Click on any of these testimonial videos to learn how a Roland Tec workshop is truly unlike any other.
