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| Recent Seminar: Write Your Bestseller After Forty And Get Published! | ||||
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Your life is material-Write about it! Author/teacher/journalist Barbara Rose Brooker says: Turn Your Life Into A Best Seller! Come with a dream and leave with an outline and the beginnings of a draft! MARCH 29th, 9AM-5:30PM at Fort Mason Center at the Gatehouse in San Francisco. Easy parking. ENROLLMENT: Enrollment is limited, so sign up now! To enroll, call 415.509.4207. Payment by check accepted at the door or by mail. Checks should be made payable to Barbara Rose Brooker and can be mailed to 1700 Broadway, #203, San Francisco, CA 94109. You have a story to tell but you don't want to spend years in creative writing classes, and long workshops. You're over 40. Maybe you're a boomer and just retired. You want to write a bestseller. Your idea is great, but you don't know how to develop your book concept into a beginning, middle, and end. It all seems impossible to you. You don't know where to start. Join this one day intensive Seminar. Barbara Rose Brooker will guide you with all craft elements, using WRITING AEROBICS, step-by-step exercises she developed at SFSU that guarantee a wonderful and fast journey from concept to publication. In one day, whether it's fiction, nonfiction, or memoir, Ms. Brooker will lead you from your concept to a title, premise, table of contents, a step-by-step outline, and finally to a draft. We will deal with premise, finding your personal voice, point of view, inner and outer plot, table of contents, shape, characterizations, scenes, narrative, setups, flashbacks, and much more. Private Consultations; private read. Suggested cuts, story development, query letters.
Barbara Rose Brooker has an MA in Creative Writing from SFSU. She has taught at SFSU extended education, at SF City College, UC extended education, at the San Francisco Learning Annex, Book Passage/Marin, and in private seminars. She has published fiction with Morrow, poetry with Crossing Press, and has written columns for local and national newspapers. Her book God Doesn't Make Trash is currently optioned and a book of short stories about love and aging has film interest. From the author/teacher/journalist: I graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing. At age 50, William Morrow published one of my novels, So Long, Princess. It had excellent reviews and went into a second printing. In 1989, my poetry was published in the award winning anthology, She Rises Like the Sun, by Crossing Press. My newest poetry, Dead Mother, about mother and daughter relationships before and after death, was recently published by Small Poetry Press '95. I have also written for local and national magazines, including "Buy The Bay," a former real estate weekly column for The San Francisco Independent. In 1988, I was hired by the Creative Writing Department faculty at San Francisco State University Extension to teach classes based on my proposal, How To Write Your First Novel After Forty and Get Published. The classes took off with large enrollments and exciting evaluations. Since then, I have been consistently teaching these classes, and many of my former students are now published authors. I also regularly teach private seminars. I recently completed my new novel, (in the process of publication), as well as another book, Elephants Fly, Too! - a funny narrative about a writer's process of writing three books and her experience in the publishing world. Writing Aerobics was conceived when, as a 35-year-old re-entry college student, single mother, and then graduate student in Creative Writing, I was writing novels and dreaming of publication. "There's no market for women over forty, get a real estate license!" everyone said. I vowed that if I ever got published I would devote my life to inspiring mid-life men and women how to turn their lives into publishable books. After I published a novel, I continued writing books and worked as a teacher and journalist. I kept detailed notes on my process as a writer; its mistakes, discoveries, and insights. I wanted to find a fun way to help my students find a voice, condense an idea into an outline and draft and to form a process. If only there were a map of a story's inner/outer plan; a shape to follow. I took out my notes and began recording recollections, images, snippets, thoughts, feelings, and exercises to reach your inner emotions that construct events. Emotions reveal plot. To each exercise, I attached emotions, and the aerobics evolved into a fun, user-friendly workbook with step-by-step exercises that help the writer develop their story idea to a publishable project. "I have given workshops, five month seminars, day seminars for years, and I have never not seen a miracle. Many of my day seminar clients are published." Things People Say About Barbara Rose-Brooker "I had spent too much time and money on writing coaches who didn't help before I met Barbara Rose-Brooker. She showed me how to trim off the excess verbiage so the inner and outer plot can shine. I finally feel that my novel is on the way to being completed and sold." "She [Barbara Rose-Brooker] is such a capable, enthusiastic teacher that I have gained so much confidence and direction, that I am actually submitting my first novel in a short time." "Barbara is a great teacher -- accomplished in her own right; with a critical eye and encouraging style. I enjoy the class and wish she could offer a life-time discount!" "Barbara - You were encouraging and for the first time I felt that I could write something worthwhile. Thank you for providing the start I needed to get going." |
"I think Barbara Rose Brooker could probably teach anyone to write a novel because she so strongly believes that we all have stories to tell." "Barbara Rose Brooker is the perfect innovator... knowledgeable, articulate, passionate, and funny." "I love Barbara. She's entertaining and spiritual; I'm now writing a novel." -Stephanie Miller, Talk Show Host "I enjoyed Barbara's classes. She know a lot about craft and she helped me hone my new screenplay." Book Reviews SO LONG, PRINCESS "I started (the book) late last night and just LOVED it! It reads so quickly. I can't wait to get back to it tonight." -Joan Rivers, Comedienne "Barbara - I did enjoy your book and thought the characters of Lisa and Eric were original and well defined." "Funny, sprightly and engaging....So Long, Princess, is a charming novel that vibrates with the ring of truth." "Lisa Perlman, I love you. Barbara Brooker, I love you, too, for dreaming up this funny-sad, crazy-wise saga of Lisa's mid-life crisis called, So Long, Princess. ...How Lisa struggles to stop being what people want her to be and opens her heart to who she is creates the huggable substance of this touching, comic novel. You'll laugh through your tears. It's that kind of a book." -Los Angeles Times "Brooker's first novel succeeds as fast-paced, insightful entertainment...With broad comic strokes, Brooker, herself an artist, paints a funny and poignant picture of two years in her hyper, pill-popping heroin's life." -Publisher's Weekly "A cheerful, post-feminist antiromance...It's easy to like."
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