This is a 3-hour Workshop
Via Zoom
Cost is $97
In this workshop, you’ll
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Learn from influential writers and their use of the four elements of all writing: Narrative Action, Dialogue, Description, and Commentary.
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Have the opportunity to learn new tools and techniques to implement in your writing immediately.
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Write in community, and share your work with others.
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Learn from your fellow writers.
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See how other writers use the same tools and techniques you have learned from Jack Grapes' Method Writing.©
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HAVE FUN!
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And if you haven't studied Jack Grapes' Method Writing,© do not fear; you will learn something new and leave feeling more confident in your writing.
Here's How It Will All Go Down:
I'll share a bit about each writer and share a few lines of their writing and talk about what makes them unique. Then:
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You'll choose the writer you’ll be crashing from a "proverbial hat.”
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'You'll receive the writer's bio and the passage you'll be 'car-washing' via email.
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You'll have time to write. (Guidance on what you will write about will be given to you.)
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Then, you'll read what you wrote
Be Another Writer For A Day—An Adventure In Writing
A Three-Hour Writing Adventure
Mixed Bag Edition
September 28, 2025,
at 8:30 am PST
One of the best ways to become a better writer is to try and write like other writers. We call it“Car-washing.” And one of the best ways to understand how to move your narrative forward is by reading detective novels. That's why I decided to offer a Detective Edition "Carwash" Workshop.
We practice the concept of "Carwash" in Jack Grapes’ Method Writing© classes. Once you’ve finished all the levels, one of the assignments is the “carwash.”
What is “Carwashing”?
It is the ‘mimicking’ of another writer. Think of it like a car wash for your voice. And the steering wheel is your story.
In this workshop, you’ll drive through different styles, exploring the unique language, sensibilities, and perspectives of writers like Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and others.
But you will still write your story. Your story isn't getting wet; your hands are firmly on what you your story (the wheel) as you drive through the writer’s car wash.
In other words, you're still writing your story but "car-washed" with the author's style, voice, point of view, etc.
And here's the coolest thing, because you'll be focusing on the car wash, and not your story, focusing on how to write like the writer you've chosen, you'll write something surprising, something different and cool and your story will surprise even you!
Some of the writers will be
Jack Kerouac
Jim Thompson
Henry Miller
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
Cormac McCarthy
Joan Didion
and more