Workshops and Conferences
Gary leads writing workshops that build on his unique blend of skills and experience. Recent workshops include:
- Character Building Workshop, PDX Playwrights, 2017-18.
- Participants learn how to create and exploit the unique attributes of their characters in stage plays.
Download the character profile and dialog drill handouts here.
- Participants learn how to create and exploit the unique attributes of their characters in stage plays.
- Improv Your Writing. Willamette Writers Conference, 2010 and 2015.
- This workshop gets participants up on their feet as they learn and apply improv principles and techniques that will help them develop story ideas, improve dialogue, create and deepen characters, add spark to plots, and get unstuck when they have writer’s block.
- Download the handout for the “Improv Your Writing” workshop
- Get Your Story a Stage. Give your story a stage treatment – how and why. Willamette Writers Conference, 2010 and 2015.
- This workshop provides the how’s and why’s of giving a story a stage treatment – i.e., turning it into a play – and getting it performed in front of live, paying audiences.
- Download the handout for “Give Your Story a Stage” workshop
- Download the slides for “Give Your Story a Stage”
- Sell Your Work—Not Your Soul. Business Planning for Writers. Willamette Writers Conference, 2009-10.
- Quit the Day Job. Making it in the freelance writing business. Willamette Writers Conference, 2008.
