Are you stuck in the middle of a novel? Are you having trouble starting a writing project? Do you just want to crack open your writing in a different way? This workshop is for you. Lindsey Lane’s Mosaic Method asks the writer to explore the deepest parts of their manuscript or story idea.
Specificity makes a story come alive. The more detailed a story, the more enthralled a reader is. Writing by mosaic is a process of writing from prompts, that are specifically curated to each writer’s individual project. Lindsey makes an investment in each writer. Two weeks before the workshop, each writer emails her a synopsis of their project followed by a thirty minute phone conference, where Lindsey interviews them about the story, the characters, the setting, and central themes, from which she creates the unique prompts.
At the workshop, each writer will receive an envelope full of mosaic moments. Together, we will write like our fingers are on fire. By the end of the workshop, each writer will have more fully developed nuggets of their story, which will inspire the story as a whole.
This workshop is designed for those at the beginning of any writing project, to writers who have plotted an entire book. This workshop is not about teaching craft. It is about each writer exploring unknown crevices in their story so that it will come alive with specificity.
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Lindsey Lane’s love for story and writing began when she read BLACK BEAUTY. Over and over and over. Even at a young age, she felt like that story told the truth about how love and cruelty live side by side in the human heart. It is that kind of truth-telling she aspires to write on every page, whether it is a play, an article, a book or a poem. Lindsey graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A. in Theatre Arts-Playwriting and Vermont College of Fine Arts with an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She has written numerous plays, like the award winning The Miracle of Washing Dishes; worked as a Features journalist at the Austin Chronicle and the Austin American Statesman, interviewing death row inmates, cops, prostitutes, and wayward millionaires. Clarion Books published her picture book SNUGGLE MOUNTAIN, named Best Children’s Book by Bank Street College of Education in 2003. In 2010, PicPocket Books also published SNUGGLE MOUNTAIN as an iTunes app. In 2014 her young adult novel THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN was published by Farrar Straus Giroux/MacMillan Books. She is currently an adjunct professor at Austin Community College’s Arts and Digital Media Department, and teaches workshops all over the world. She is also a volunteer in women’s prisons since 2016.
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“Lindsey found a dozen ways for me to enter my work-in-progress, ways that I would never have seen. It’s not like angles, more like a prism, with each particle a brilliant beam of light. The light splashes, the muse sings, the story emerges. I can’t wait to do it again.” Kathi Appelt, Author, The Underneath
"By suggesting myriad entry points, Lindsey Lane's Mosaic Method helped me see the vivid details and full dimensionality of my story as if by magic. It's ingenious." Liz Scanlon, Author, All The World
“I participated in Lindsey Lane’s “Writing by Mosaic” workshop, and it was magical. Even before the workshop began, I was astonished by and grateful for Lindsey’s generosity in spending so much time in coming to understand this little spark of an idea I hoped to pursue, and in pondering the possibilities of the project. There was something so special, too, about the way the day was structured. I loved the envelope with the secret questions, which were wise and inviting. I loved the bursts of writing, interspersed with resting and talking. New characters and plot complications absolutely sprang from my pen, er, laptop. By the end of the day, I had several new scenes and a larger web on which to hang my story, and I was fired up to write more. When the group shared what we’d done, we discovered that, for each of us, the workshop had been transformative. If you have a chance to do “Mosaics” with Lindsey, I advise you to snap it up immediately!” Susan Fletcher, Author, Alphabet of Dreams
“Mosaic was a transformative experience. Truly. Lindsey’s prompts opened up secrets, possibilities, and new directions I never thought to take my story. I was totally energized by the work. Best of all, because I left the workshop with fresh perspectives and words, there was joy, not fear, as I returned to the manuscript the next day. Now I want to “Mosaic” every book I write.” Anne Bustard, Author, Blue Skies
“In Lindsey Lane’s “Writing by Mosaic” workshop she asks unique questions specific to each person’s work (we all got our own envelopes and prompts) and then gives space and time to dive deep. I was able to unearth new insights into my process and my story in a safe, inspiring atmosphere that seemed a bit like magic, but was a result of careful cultivation of each writer’s heart. Lindsey cares about people, and their work, and that makes all the difference.” Meredith Davis, Author, Her Own Two Feet -
All participants will be required to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative COVID-19 PCR test result received within 72 hours of our meeting. To be considered fully vaccinated, it must be within a year, and two weeks after participants have had their second dose in a two-dose series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or within a year and two weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine (read more about full vaccination here); if vaccinations were received over a year ago, proof of booster shot administered must supplied. Valid forms of proof will include: a vaccine card, a picture of your vaccination card clearly showing your name and dates of the vaccination/booster shot, a photocopy of your vaccine card, or or proof of vaccination/booster through the a third-party medical verification app.