| September 2010 Workshops | |
| Keep It Moving: How Thinking Like a Screenwriter Can Improve Your Novel Presented by Cindy Carroll | |
| Writing scripts and writing novels are two completely different things. But Keep it Moving focuses on how thinking like a screenwriter can help your pacing, keep your writing active, get you to show instead of tell and focus on the essence of the ... | |
| Duration: 13 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20 |
| Foreshadowing and Other Tricks to Improve Your Writing Presented by Theresa Meyers | |
| Time to add tools to your writer’s tool box! Take your writing to the next level with techniques and tips used by the pros to add depth and pacing to their work. In this course you'll: * Discover what foreshadowing is and how it works to im... | |
| Duration: 13 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20 |
| The Purpose Driven Scene Presented by Lynn Kerstan | |
| Scenes are the building blocks of a novel. But while a scene is advancing the book’s story question, each scene is, in itself, a story in miniature. This workshop focuses on how to develop a scene that is chock-full of character development, co... | |
| Duration: 27 days |
Members: $15
Non-Members: $25 |
| October 2010 Workshops | |
| Story, Theme and Vehicle Presented by Susan Meier | |
| Have you ever written a book that was good, but simply didn’t seem good enough? Or one that wasn’t cohesive? Or one that should have been wonderful but seemed to fall flat? In Story, Theme and Vehicle, Susan Meier explains how knowing your book’s sto... | |
| Duration: 27 days |
Members: $15
Non-Members: $25 |
| Character Torture 101 Presented by Linnea Sinclair | |
| Writing Guru Dwight Swain said that it’s the author’s job to manipulate the emotions of the reader . There’s no better way to do this than for the author to put his characters through one roller coaster episode after another , taking the reader along... | |
| Duration: 27 days |
Members: $15
Non-Members: $25 |
| The Heroine’s Journey: Adapting Four-Act Structure to the Character-Driven Story Presented by: Wendy Lynn Watson | |
| Christopher Vogler’s Hero’s Journey is a basic “four act” mythic story structure that can be used to describe everything from the legend of King Arthur to Alien. There’s something about this narrative structure that resonates with us on an elemental... | |
| Duration: 27 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $25 |
| Scenes and Sequels and Scenes, Oh My Presented by Kat Duncan | |
| Highly recommended and as scary as the flying monkeys of Oz, Swain's and Bickham's books on fiction theory have tried to explain the basic concept behind why fiction works: scenes and sequels. This workshop will do more than attempt to simplify the t... | |
| Duration: 27 days |
Members: $15
Non-Members: $25 |
| November 2010 Workshops | |
| Plot is a Four-Letter Word Presented by Stacey Kade | |
| Plot is a Four-Letter Word Does the word “plot” make you tremble and quake? Never fear! Join YA Disney-Hyperion author and award-winning copywriter Stacey Kade as she demystifies the concept of plot and breaks it down into more easily manageable p... | |
| Duration: 35 days |
Members: $15
Non-Members: $25 |
| Storyboarding for the Story Challenged Presented by Shayla Black | |
| Hate blinking cursors or rewriting? Have a very time-pressed schedule? To avoid all of those and maintain sanity in the middle of deadlines and challenging books requires a little more pre-plotting than Ready with some characters, Set with an open... | |
| Duration: 6 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20 |
| How to Handle POV Effectively Presented by Shannon Donnelly | |
| Third person, first person, multiple viewpoints, single--all of it can be confusing. What works? When do you shift viewpoint--how and more importantly why? And how do you take POV so deep a reader feels everything a character feels? This workshop... | |
| Duration: 13 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20 |
| December 2010 Workshops | |
| Creating Suspense Presented by JD Webb and Pepper Smith | |
| What is so dang hard about writing suspense? We know suspense when we experience it. When our heartbeat accelerates; when our eyes can’t read fast enough. Suspense activates several emotions. So why can’t we write it with ease? We’re authors, we shou... | |
| Duration: 13 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20 |
| Love Scenes with Emotional Punch Presented by Shayla Black | |
| Not sure how to elevate your romance novel’s love scenes above inserting tab A into slot B? Uncomfortable with how to make sex between your characters deep and meaningful? Not sure when to show or how much and when to close the bedroom door? This ... | |
| Duration: 6 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20 |
| January 2011 Workshops | |
| Secrets to a Winning Proposal Presented by Stacey Kade | |
| Writing a successful query letter and synopsis sometimes feels like more of a challenge than finishing your novel! But if you know the secret to catching an agent or publisher's eye, the querying process is going to be a lot easier. Join YA Disney-Hy... | |
| Duration: 14 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20 |
| Break Free From the Slush Pile Presented By CJ Lyons, MD | |
| Join award-winning medical suspense author CJ Lyons as she explains the secrets to successful pitching, tips to engage an editor or agent through your query letter, and reveals the creation of a high concept. CJ has received requests for manuscrip... | |
| Duration: 14 days |
Members: $15
Non-Members: $20 |
| Snakebite Scenes Presented by Carrie Lofty | |
| You have the beginning. You know how it should end. But what to do with those hundreds of pages in the middle? Try adding action! Even quieter stories can use moments of movement and excitement, but not every author feels confident when creating thos... | |
| Duration: 13 days |
Members: $10
Non-Members: $20 |
| The Journey Cycle Presented by Robin Matheson | |
| Is your protagonist poised at the Edge of the Forest, negotiating the Trail of Breadcrumbs, or facing the Mirror on the Wall? To reach a satisfying ending to any story, be it romance or another genre, each step in the Journey requires careful deliber... | |
| Duration: 27 days |
Members: $15
Non-Members: $25 |
| Creating Memorable Characters Presented by Sue Viders and Becky Martinez | |
| Need some help developing characters who leap off the page? Want to get to know what makes your characters tick so that you can turn them into real flesh and blood heroes and heroines? Join us for a workshop that will help you learn how to make the c... | |
| Duration: 27 days |
Members: $15
Non-Members: $25 |
