Group Classes

*No Group Classes are being held at this time. Check back at a future date.

Basic Elements of Fiction Writing + Workshop

Have you always wanted to write a story but don’t know where to begin? Would you like to learn the basic elements of fiction, including point of view, scene versus summary, characterization, and apply them to your own writing? Would you like to submit your story for peer review in a workshop setting? If so, this course is for you. Beyond the exploration of narrative elements and the workshop element, students will also be given published short stories to analyze and writing exercises to help hone their skills.

The course is comprised of 6, 3-hour classes that meet once per month. Material covered includes: story/plot, characterization, scene versus summary, point of view, and theme. The course also includes time spent addressing sentence-level issues that sometimes arise for narrative writers, such as active/passive voice trouble, over-used adverbs, “wordiness,” etc.

Course Duration: 6 months

Class Dates: TBD

Course Cost: TBD

Class Size Limit: 8 students

Course Location: TBD

Experience

Jasmine’s fiction has appeared in Underground Voices, and The Helena Vigilante. Her non-fiction has also appeared in The Helena Vigilante as well as Montana Mountain Mamas. Jasmine has taught fiction writing for Helena College’s Continuing Education program, and she is a co-founder and co-editor of Montana Mouthful literary magazine. Jasmine currently writes, teaches, and edits through The Lamb Group, Inc., a company that she and her husband started in 2012.

Jasmine is an excellent writing instructor, and students were extremely pleased with their results after working with her. In my opinion, the most telling evidence of her ability was the fact that students were so motivated to work with her, they would adjust their schedules and priorities in order to meet with her for instruction. Her reputation was such that having her on staff was a recruiting tool for the Student Support Service program. Word-of-mouth of her excellence in instruction among the college student body helped the program grow and was instrumental in the establishment of the program. I wholeheartedly endorse her as a college level writing tutor.

Kendall May