Time, Place, & Beyond: Bring Your Setting to Life – Cynthia Owens
I’ll show you how to plunge your reader into your setting and making it as real as your own backyard.
You’ll learn the basics of settings—time, place, and mood—and from there, you’ll discover how to research you story’s world.
The Emotional Arc – Tere Michaels
In this workshop, we’ll drill down into the different facets of your characters’ emotional arc and how it is both the spine (structure) and heart (feelings) of your story.
He Said, She Said: Defining Your Characters with Dialogue – Cynthia Owens
If you’re like most writers, you’ve probably taken a number of classes and read even more about writing snappy dialogue. That’s not this class. This class will focus on using dialogue to define your fictionals.
Your Can’t Copyright Tropes but You Can Make Them Your Own – Tere Michaels
First, we need to work out why certain tropes attract readers and what their expectations are. Then this workshop will discuss subverting tropes and reinventing approaches, without losing emotional buy-in from the reader.
There’s More to Selling Books than Amazon – Zoom Workshop – Susan Palmquist – 1pm-3pm EST
Why compete in a saturated market?
In this class we’ll look at alternative ways to sell your work, everything from lesser-known bookselling sites to setting up your own bookstore.
Make Villains Memorable – Mary Marvella
Learn how to make your villain the best he/she can be!
Small Conflicts that Move Your Story Along – Mary Marvella
In this class, we will work on ways to use small conflicts to keep a story moving.
Writing Your Memoirs or Autobiography – Mary Marvella
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.
The Fine Art of Killing Words: Editing for a Lean, Mean Manuscript – Beth Henderson
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.
Writing a Nonfiction How-To Book – Mary Marvella
We’ll use Mind Mapping and other brainstorming. We will explore the elements that make up a successful book.