Instructor: Sally J Walker
Start Date: Monday, June 1, 2026
End Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25

When people tell you to write what you know, what better material can you find than your own life? Think your life is boring or perhaps throbbing with drama better kept private? Fiction is lies! You can exaggerate and change events and personalities any way you want and even write under a pseudonym to distant yourself from the material. The most vital part of this eight-session course is to learn how to translate real life into story and characters that will speak to the experiences of others. Discover how to identify dramatic details hiding in your mind and how to weave fascinating people and circumstance that will entertain others . . . while you let go and set free both your anxieties and your joys.

Session One Intro & Self-Examination
Session Two Difference of Fiction & Therapy
Session Three Six Elements of Storytelling & Self
Session Four Characterization & Self
Session Five Art of Combining People-You-Know
Session Six Evolving a Story & Conflict
Session Seven What-If, Thought Association & Reality
Session Eight One Story =Yours

About the Instructor:

While raising a family and working as a critical care RN, Sally Walker graduated Cum Laude with BFA in Creative Writing. She proceeded to attain published credits that include international poetry, literary, romance, and western novels, a nonfiction essay collection, several creative writing textbooks, stage plays, and many magazine articles on the craft of writing, including staff contributions to two international film magazines for 10 years. Under the tutelage of such industry greats as the late N.B. Stone, Jr.(RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY and Paramount projects), Joe Wallenstein (of USC, SISTERS, KNOTT’S LANDING), and the late Lew Hunter (of UCLA Film Chair, NBC Program Director, and other networks), Sally has written 34 screenplays, optioned 2, worked on assignment, and earned Hollywood representation through Intellectual Properties Group. In addition to long time active memberships in such national writing organizations as WWA, SCBWI, and the former RWA, she was president of a state-wide writers organization 2007-2011 and is active in the Nebraska Film Association to evolve the film industry in her state. While keeping to a strenuous writing schedule, she worked as Editorial Director for a small publishing company for 18 years. Besides being an adjunct professor of screenwriting at a local community college, Sally has taught writing seminars, both on-site and on-line and has been the facilitator for the weekly meetings of the Nebraska Writers Workshop in Ralston, NE.

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