Workshop: "Finding the Heart of Your Story: Your Original Idea" with George Galdorisi, NY Times best selling author

Sunday, November 3, 2019

Workshop:

Finding the Heart of Your Story:
Your Original Idea

with

George Galdorisi, NY Times best selling author

Sunday, November 3, 2019

9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location:

The Galen at Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert is located at 72-567 Highway 111, Palm Desert, CA 92260. The museum is located next to Cuistot Restaurant, and faces Hwy 111.

Driving Entrance to the Museum: click map for directions
If driving Hwy 111 from Palm Springs toward Palm Desert, there is an entrance to the museum off of 111, just before El Paseo. There's also an entrance off El Paseo. Lots of FREE parking.

Classroom: Enter through the main front door. There are adequate outlets for people who need to charge their phones or iPads.

Workshop Description:

George will take the group through: “Finding the Heart of Your Story: Your Original Idea.” This workshop will help you explore the basic – yet most important – element of the writing craft, the original idea that is the essence of any story.

We will first examine how generating this original idea works for both fiction and non-fiction. Then deep-dive into where original ideas come from and progress on how to shape that kernel of an idea into novel, narrative non-fiction, or even a screenplay. 

Participants will do this in real-time and complete the workshop with a seedling that will grow into a publishable work. 

Finally, workshop attendees will receive a link to his website that contains all the material for his talks and workshops. This has proven especially beneficial as attendees don’t have to furiously take notes – they can just listen and absorb what is presented, and then refer to the briefing slides as they continue their writing journey.

Workshop Schedule: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

About the workshop facilitators:

George Galdorisi is a career naval aviator whose thirty years of active service included four command tours and five years as a carrier strike group chief of staff. He began his writing career with an article in the U.S. Navy’s professional magazine, Naval Institute Proceedings. He has written fourteen novels and non-fiction works published by mainstream publishers as well as over 400 articles in national and international professional journals, magazines and newspapers, has won a number of international writing awards, and leads writing seminars throughout Southern California.

With his longtime collaborator, Dick Couch, he coauthored the New York Times best seller, Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor, the novelization of the Relativity Media number-one rated movie.  He is also the author of The Kissing Sailor, which proved the identity of the two principals in Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous photograph. Coming off four consecutive New York Times best-sellers (Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor as well as three Tom Clancy Op-Center thrillers – Out of the Ashes, Into the Fire and Scorched Earth) he has embarked on a new series of Rick Holden thrillers published by Braveship Books. The first two books, The Coronado Conspiracy and For Duty and Honor were published in 2017 and 2018, respectively, and his next Rick Holden thriller is in production. http://www.georgegaldorisi.com

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Registration Details:

• PSWG Members: $75.00
• Non-Members: $150.00
• Online payments preferred and are rectified within 24 hours. Check or cash payments are rectified within 2 weeks.* 
• Payment in Full is confirmation of seating.
• Online payment via AffiniPay or credit card only.
• To received a full refund minus a $25 cancellation processing fee, attendees must cancel their registration 5 days before the event. No refunds will be given after that time.
• Day of workshop sales available ONLY if workshop is not full. Bring check. Workshop events are limited to 40 participants.
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