Character Building Part of 2 – Core Wounds 2-Week, Sept 4th – Sept 15th
Core Wounds sit in the heart of every person - both real or fiction.
$35
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Core Wounds sit in the heart of every person - both real or fiction.
You’ll learn to use an outline, and work through a series of three acts.
Let's look at editing away the stuff that doesn't involve our readers to create that final draft readers can't put down!
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We'll examine the difference between internal conflict and external trauma and how they can bring a reader closer to the character - or drive them away.
Each week we will have four people (first come first serve) send a book cover which will be used to make memes live.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about internal and external trauma, how much is enough/too much, what tone you’re going for and how to use angst effectively, and most importantly, how to write a satisfying ending.
I edit a lot of books with the same kinds of mistakes. Why not have a plan to help you?
Whether you want to change history (as alternative allows you to do in various ways, just jump in your time machine) or insert characters into an earlier era and give them a crime to deal with or a crime in the making if someone is hunting them, or use actual historical personages – or not – in a real historic mystery setting…well, this workshop will touch on them all.
We will explore elements to look for in our books and ways to go back to the beginning after we think the story is over and make sure the end works or if we need to add details earlier or delete things that don’t work.
This class focuses specifically on the middle of your story, the bulk of the action that takes place after the set-up and builds up until you reach your “disembarking point” and the book’s ending.
Three. It’s a magic number.
Three is used as an element in fashion, in art, in interior design. It is used to present arguments to persuade others to act or respond or believe that a particular conclusion is valid.
As readers, we all love to get into a good book with great characters and an engrossing plot line. We also like to guess what’s going to happen. But what we love most of all are those moments when you’re bowled over by some totally unexpected that you didn’t see coming, yet when you read it, it makes complete sense.
In Successful Book Launches you’ll learn-
How to start thinking about promotion before you even begin writing
How to create a promotion timeline
How to figure out who your audience really is and the best way to reach them
How to book yourself on podcasts, blogs and book review sites.
This workshop will go over and expand on some of the marketing techniques given in the April Zoom workshop, but will also have many more, plus tips on writing the cozy mystery!
Recently, I tried something different. A Postproduction outline. I created it when I was past the middle part but still a ways to go to hit the conclusion.
In this enjoyable and informative program, Carol Shaunessy pairs some of her favorite wines with these favorite genres.
Like whites with fish and reds with steak, there are flavors and recipes to match cozy mysteries, paranormal shifters, and even witchy YAs.
So, this Christmas, when looking for that special gift, pair your beloved reader with a couple of these, using some of Shaughnessy’s suggestions. You’ll be surprised and pleased. Jump in as Carol takes us through the wine cellar. Stroll past book shelves waiting for readers to curl up with something less traditional than tea and coffee.
We’ll use Mind Mapping and other brainstorming. We will explore the elements that make up a successful book.
In four weeks, we’ll walk this walk together, evaluating what can go and what needs to stay, changing verbs, revising sentences, giving up adverbs (hardest thing for me!), trimming descriptions, catching when characters babble, and limiting dialogue tags.
Students could have a working outline for a memoir/autobiography and a good portion of a rough draft by the end of the month and the instructor’s guidance after the class ends.
