After a year of working from home, journalists and communicators around the country are hitting reset on their routines as they consider life after vaccination. Add “Pro Tips: Writing refresh” to your toolkit as you reset.
In this 3-hour workshop, we’ll get you motivated with:
- Tips on energizing tired writing
- Structuring stories with inclusivity at their core
- Writing killer headlines that attract, rather than distract
Registration is open for this program, which will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. ET Friday, June 4, on Zoom. Tickets are $50 for general participants and $40 for National Press Club members.
Session spotlight: Re-energize your writing ... and your love for it (1-2 p.m., Steve Padilla)
If the circumstances of 2020 — and the year to date — have left your creative reserves drained, you’re not alone. Re-energize how you view writing — and the way you do it — in this session for nonfiction writers.
Writing coach and Los Angeles Times Column One Editor Steve Padilla will guide you out of your writing ruts with sentence-level, achievable techniques to invigorate your writing. Designed for professional nonfiction writers, Padilla’s workshop will give you fresh ways to:
- Craft descriptions
- Construct anecdotes
- Trim and squeeze your copy
- Troubleshoot your writing
- Collaborate with editors
Strengthen your technique while gaining practical tips that work for long-form stories as well as quick dailies.
Steve Padilla, who taught standing-room-only participants during the Institute’s Pro Tips writing workshop at the Press Club in 2019, is editor of Column One, the L.A. Times’ showcase for storytelling. He tweets about writing technique at @StevePadilla2.
