THE WORLD RENOWNED
SANTA BARBARA WRITERS CONFERENCE
For one week in June
At the beautiful Hyatt Santa Barbara
Photo by Jane St. Clair
Dale has been part of the SBWC faculty since 2004.
About The Workshop
As the title implies, in this workshop Dale concentrates on structure and on story. In both fiction and nonfiction, she looks to help writers strengthen those all-important story elements without which the novel, memoir, play or screenplay will fall apart, no matter how beautifully worded. She looks at pages from attendees' work in the context of the whole story, helping them, in other words, to strengthen the parts in ways that contribute to make a more compelling whole. STORY is at the heart of every good story.
Click here to download Dale's workbook on story: "It's All About Story."
As the title implies, in this workshop Dale concentrates on structure and on story. In both fiction and nonfiction, she looks to help writers strengthen those all-important story elements without which the novel, memoir, play or screenplay will fall apart, no matter how beautifully worded. She looks at pages from attendees' work in the context of the whole story, helping them, in other words, to strengthen the parts in ways that contribute to make a more compelling whole. STORY is at the heart of every good story.
Click here to download Dale's workbook on story: "It's All About Story."
What's Your Story?
Weekend Writing Intensive
Weekend Writing Intensive
Dale conducts the following workshop once a year in the Santa Barbara and/or Los Angeles areas.
DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP
In an intensive 7-hour-a-day Saturday and Sunday workshop, Dale will work with a limited number of students (5-7) exploring such story issues as:
- Is there a strong protagonist?
- Has the writer established a premise (the spine of the story), or needs help determining one?
- Does the story stick to the spine, or have extraneous material?
- Does the work have an inciting incident?
- Does desire and need, both conscious and unconscious drive the main character(s) forward?
- Are there clear antagonistic forces pitted against the fulfillment of this need?
- Does the action of the story rise both dramatically and incrementally?
- Is there a climax / obligatory scene?
- Is there a resolution?
- Does the character transform through the struggles of the story?
SCHEDULE:
Saturday and Sunday
9:30-12:30 AM morning session
12:30-1:30 Break for lunch
1:30-5:30 Afternoon session
PRICE/CONDITIONS:
$275 per person for 5 people (add $20 if you would like lunch included both days)
$225 per person for 6 people (add $20 if you would like lunch included both days)
$195 per person for 7 people (add $20 if you would like lunch included both days)
$50 Non-Refundable Deposit to hold spot in workshop due two weeks before
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE WRITERS CONFERENCE
Dale has led workshops at the prestigious international San Miguel de Allende Writers' Conference and Literary Festival in 2018 and 2019. In 2021, she led a workshop in their online series: The San Miguel Literary Sala.
Her workshops covered the following topics:
~ The Ins and Outs of Three-Act Structure: It's Not Just “Beginning, Middle, and End”
~ The Five Key Questions Every Good Story Needs to Answer
~ The Power of Premise
~ Dramatic Conflcit