In this workshop, participaants will learn how to find, shape, and tell stories. You can bring an existing story to shape or find a new story from your life. We will discuss the five main elements of a story and how to discover them. By learning dynamic storytelling elements, you will gain the tools to  pull short stories out of everyday life. Participants will learn how to turn an anecdote of something that happened to you into a story that illuminates a central truth about your life. This will be an interactive workshop with a mixture of mini-lecture, one-on-one dialogue, writing, and small group work. This workshop can help you with written stories in addition to spoken stories, but it is not a traditional writing workshop.

Class meets in person Tuesday, October 20, 1 - 2:30 pm.

Class size: Minimum 5, maximum 15.

Member discount: Members of Write On receive a 10% discount on all classes and workshops. To become a member,   please click here. To receive the discount, members must log in to the website using their unique password and enter   member10   in the promotion code box. The code is case sensitive.

Teaching Artist:   Jen Rubin is the Executive Producer of Love Wisconsin, a storytelling project of Wisconsin Humanities. Jen leads storytelling workshops around the state, with Odyssey Beyond Bars, and co-produced the Moth StorySlam in Madison. She is the author of We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood.