Single-Session: Sid Jain teaches The Charged Field: How Writers Build an Idea Practice

Just in time for our busy drafting season, this class is perfect for the writer looking for new ways to cultivate story ideas!

Every story starts with an idea, and accumulates new ideas with every sentence. Ideas that span the range from word choice, sentence structure, scene setting, content, dialogue, worldbuilding, all the way to complete character, novel, or series arcs. So, a major part (and one of the signature joys) of writing is cultivating a process for catching, developing, cataloging, and deploying ideas. 

This class will demonstrate a range of techniques for foraging and remixing ideas from the wild -- reality or fiction -- and work them into your stories. We will perform idea-foraging exercises from art, film, writing and introduce different ways of cataloging the ideas that come up. 

is a biotechnologist and writer from New Delhi, India, now living in North Carolina, US. His twice-British Science Fiction Award-longlisted short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in, among others, Uncanny Magazine, Podcastle, and Phase Changes, an anthology of climate fiction. He is  a graduate of the Viable Paradise writing workshop. Find him at sidjain.info.

This is a live class offered over Zoom on Saturday, September 19th at 1pm Eastern. Students will have access to the recording for 3 months after the class is complete. Upon purchase, you will receive a Zoom registration link for access to the class via the email address you used to make the purchase.