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2020 Teen Summer Writing: Outline Between Your 1st and 2nd Draft

July 8, 2020 Nathan Hansen Leave a comment

Episode 4: The teen summer writing program is a blend of online resources and the “Write Where You Are” workbook.…

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Posted in: Workshop and Educational Resources Filed under: First Drafts, Outline, Second Drafts

2020 Teen Summer Writing Program: First Drafts

July 1, 2020 Nathan Hansen

Episode 3: This episode helps ease tensions for those who are apprehensive about starting a first draft.

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Posted in: Workshop and Educational Resources Filed under: First Drafts, Teen Writing Program, Teen Writing Workshop, Write Where You Are

2020 Teen Summer Writing Program: Narrative Arc and Forming A Pitch

June 24, 2020 Nathan Hansen

Episode 2: This episode helps participants think about their narrative arc, prepare a pitch, and talks about what feedback to look for as you deliver your pitch.

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Posted in: Workshop and Educational Resources Filed under: Narrative arc, Pitch, Teen Writing Program, Teen Writing Workshop, Write Where You Are

2020 Teen Summer Writing Program: What To Write

June 17, 2020 Nathan Hansen

Episode 1: This episode helps to guide participants through generating ideas to write about in the creative nonfiction form.

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Posted in: Workshop and Educational Resources Filed under: Idea Generation, Teen Writing Program, Teen Writing Workshop, What To Write, Write Where You Are, Writing Resources

What’s Your Story! Creative Nonfiction Workbook

June 13, 2020 Nathan Hansen

This workbook is designed to work in conjunction with online instructional resources and in-person workshops. To download your free copy…

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Posted in: Workshop and Educational Resources Filed under: Teen Writing Workshop, What's Your Story, Workbook

Three Ways to Structure Your Creative Writing

May 30, 2020 Nathan Hansen

We’ve all had an experience where we were listening to someone tell a story that lacked structure and, therefore, was…

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Posted in: Workshop and Educational Resources Filed under: Three-act, Try Fail, Writing

Dancing with Dialogue

May 14, 2020 Nathan Hansen

This is a condensed online presentation of Nathan’s Dancing with Dialogue program. Learn the conventions of good dialogue, how to…

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Posted in: Workshop and Educational Resources Filed under: dialogue

Uncurated

March 14, 2020 Nathan Hansen

by Nathan Hansen      Grandma died a decade after grandpa—we weren’t close. On the surface, among other things, grandma was…

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The Mountain

August 11, 2019 Nathan Hansen

Published piece of nature writing that appeared in the 2019 edition of The Deep Wild Journal.

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Posted in: Narrative Nonfiction

The Ledge

May 1, 2017 Nathan Hansen

Published piece of nature writing which appeared in issue 31 of the Trestle Creek Review.

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Posted in: Narrative Nonfiction

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