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Revitalize Your Author Platform with Hillary DePiano

HillaryDePiano
You’re a real wizard with words but computer stuff? Not so much. Whether you’ve got a long neglected website or never really set up a proper web presence, author, e-commerce expert and big honkin’ nerd Hillary DePiano is here to show you easy ways to get more out of the tools you’ve already got… even if you’re not even remotely tech savvy.

From marketing essentials like building a website to tips for turning blog readers and social media followers into lifetime fans, we’ll demystify the tech stuff and help take your writing career out of the dark ages!
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Wrestling with Revision with Sally Kilpatrick

SallyKilpatrick
How much revision is enough? How much is too much? And where should a writer even start?

In this workshop, we'll talk about the difference between proofreading, revision, and redrafting.

I'll also add the strategies I've learned over the years for receiving and incorporating feedback, when to revise and when to stand your ground, and general tips and tricks for each stage of the polishing process.
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You Can’t Copyright Tropes: But You Can Make Them Your Own with Tere Michaels

TereMichaels
Tropes are both the building blocks of our writing and the magical potion that can take “been there, read that” to “omgincomprehensablewordsofhappy.” How do we take something that’s been done before and make it our own?

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.
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Using Backstory to Enhance Your Novel with Cynthia Owens

Cynthia Owens
In Using Backstory to Enhance Your Novel, students will examine how to use backstory effectively to enhance their stories using elements of a character’s past.

We will cover:
  • What is Backstory?
  • Flashbacks and How to Use Them,
  • The Five Ws of Backstory—Who, What, Where, When and Why—of a character’s past.
  • Prologues—how to use a prologue to provide backstory.
  • Dialogue—how to manipulate your readers by using a character’s dialogue to hint at backstory.
  • Weaving—how to weave backstory into your story.
  • Inner Thought—revealing your character’s backstory through inner thought.
  • What Do They Want?—how your character’s backstory can affect his goals.
  • Bonus - The New Way to Plot: Plotting With Backstory.
Included in the workshop is a workbook with assignments, checklists, and more.
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