Workshop Brief

Framing and constructing your creative ideas for the right marketplace at the right time is the key to a successful outcome. This workshop is intended for individuals in the Arts community and in Academia where there is a need for a more formal approach to the successful circulation of creative ideas to funding sources, editors and publishers, directors, producers and employers. Because it is designed to reach for new ideas, this workshop experience is particularly appropriate for those who must meet the demands for new and original work. It is also of benefit to individuals in the business community and in organizations who are either looking for creative ideas on which to base commercial or community activity or who have creative ideas themselves, not necessarily in their own fields, but who would like to explore those areas of interest. Participants will take home a better understanding of the process of finding, framing, producing and realizing their projects and how those projects can be brought to successful conclusion.

While the workshop will concentrate on the participants’ ideas and projects, we will also tackle finding a creative project opportunity; going where the idea takes you; determining the boundaries of a field of endeavor and what that means to your project; looking and finding that undiscovered country that brings rewards; taking the right steps between idea and completion; eliminating false starts; finding a creative entry into an existing or stalled project; recasting a failed or rejected project, reassessing, rewriting and research.

Workshop topics are: it’s not writing, it’s the idea; timing is everything; language, the 21st Century and other anomalies; standards and assessments, new and old; need technical assistance, it’s out there; e-world, its uses and abuses; copyright problems considered; and how to be taken seriously.

Ideal Workshop Candidate

Ideal workshop candidates are individuals in any field of interest in the arts, academic, organization and business communities who have on-going projects or who have projects in mind, ideas they have explored or would like to explore and who are looking for successful outcomes. The threads that connect the ideas, interests, abilities and experience of the participants will establish the environment for this program. Because writing is essential to most project design it is the place from which the group begins but is not necessarily its focus. This workshop is not a formal or technical writing experience and is not for the experienced writer or for individuals seeking to improve their writing skills.

A Note on Intellectual Properties

In a program such as this anxiety about the protection of one’s intellectual property may be a deciding factor to participation. Protection of intellectual properties is one of the important workshop topics. Copyright considerations will be worked out in advance with each participant.