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We are offering a QuickBooks Basic Course that will teach you how to navigate QuickBooks, create a company file, set up inventory, work with vendors (writing checks, paying bills) and customers (creating invoices, receipts, receive payments), managing payroll, doing bank reconciliation and creating reports. These topics will give you a great start...

In business, your writing counts. It’s a projection of yourself (and your company) just as much as what you wear or how you conduct yourself in a meeting. Good writing skills will enhance your image, increase your confidence, boost your productivity, and help you achieve your objectives on a daily basis. Here you will learn the basic principles...

Comics say it’s the greatest high. You step into the light, take a swig of water, pick up the mic, then reduce a crowd of people to a mass of helpless laughter. Sure, the risks are great—silence, heckling, humiliation—but on a good night a stand-up feels richer than Seinfeld and Rock combined. You “kill” or “die” depending on your material....

Do you find it hard to get yourself in a chair to write for a good stretch of time? If so, you’re not alone. That’s the beauty of Just Write. You gather with a group of writers once a week for three hours and you…just write. You work on a project of your choosing, which can be any type of writing—novel, script, memoir, stand-up routine, etc....

Complete Title: Advanced Screenwriting Development Programs - ASDP, “Efficient Moving Dialogue Writing” It is a compact workshop for creating powerful, efficient and moving dialogue ie: The writing and development. This workshop is mostly focusing on: Dialogue writing principles. Engaging with characterization. Consistency. Subtext. Transformation...

To have an award-winning screenplay, you have to figure out two main points: To create a suitable story to convert to a screenplay and write it down with no mistakes and then find a decent festival/competition to submit to. In this workshop, Emine Dursun explains the important points and tricks from both sides as an experienced festival director,...

All students new to The Writers Studio NYC start with Level I. Since we approach teaching with our own method and vocabulary, even experienced writers with publications and/or MFAs will find plenty that is new and challenging in Level I. Our short weekly exercises are designed to stimulate students’ imaginations while also teaching a lot of nuts-and-bolts...

Complete Title: Advanced Screenwriting Development Programs - ASDP, “Character Creation” It is a compact workshop for character creating and developing. This workshop is mostly focusing on: Principles of characterization. Engagement with the plots. Consistency. Connections with others and audience. Effects to dialogue. All the attendants...

The One-Day Intensives are seven-hour crash courses. You are immersed in a topic through a mixture of brief lectures that hit the high-points and writing exercises that let you immediately try your hand at what you’ve just learned. The Intensives provide an excellent overview of their fields, ideal for both the beginner and someone wanting a quick...

Complete Title: Advanced Screenwriting Development Programs - ASDP, “Building A Strong Structure” It is a compact workshop for creating and building a strong structure and developing it. This workshop is mostly focusing on: Principles of Structure. Math behind the story. Steps of the strong structures. Practicing. All the attendants will...

Would you like a quick and easy method for composing documents—letters, memos, reports, proposals and performance appraisals—in an organized format? This business writing workshop provides you with basic formats and formulas for tackling any kind of writing task—and communicating to your readers what they need to know. You’ll streamline...

As Rhett tells Scarlett in the movie Gone With the Wind, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” (In the book version, there’s no “frankly.”) Either way it’s a good line, and you should give a damn about your dialogue. Dialogue is crucial to any kind of story—fiction, nonfiction, any kind of script. Bad dialogue can sink it like a...

In this 4-week workshop taught by veteran comedian Carole Montgomery, you'll learn the basics of joke writing, brainstorm ideas for material, present that material on the Q.E.D. stage, receive feedback from Carole and fellow students and, finally, perform your five minutes at a "graduation" show with fellow students.The class is conducted on the Q.E.D....

The holidays come to life with fragrant, long lasting decorations for your door, table and mantel. Explore working with fresh pine, fir, cedar, boxwood, juniper and arborvitae. Cones and berries will add seasonal interest. Personalize your projects with accents of ribbons and millimeter balls. $80 materials fee. Materials List: Florist knife...

Learn to enhance your requirements development process — from planning the project, through conducting elicitation meetings and writing well-formed user requirements, to validating the requirements and managing changes to them. In this user requirements training course, you develop the skills for getting the right information from your stakeholders...