- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Basic Membership Price: $40.00
- Category
- Characters
- Structure
- GMC
- Plotting
- Class Length
- 4 Weeks
In this month-long online class, New York Times best-selling author Angela Knight discusses how to write a beginning that will have readers clicking the BUY button.
Knight examines the elements that engage the reader’s curiosity and make her care about your characters. She will explain how to design and execute a fantastic story that will land you on your readers’ auto-buy lists.
Knight examines the elements that engage the reader’s curiosity and make her care about your characters. She will explain how to design and execute a fantastic story that will land you on your readers’ auto-buy lists.
- Syllabus
- Lessons in this month-long online class will be posted on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, students may email scenes to Angela for a critique and suggestions. This won’t be shared with the class.
- Introduction — why the first chapter matters
- What every story’s beginning must do to engage the reader
- Building your book’s conflict launchpad
- Internal conflict without navel-gazing
- Romantic conflict for smart characters
- External conflict without wimps
- Make me care
- Brainstorming the perfect scene to introduce your hero or heroine
- First lines and first pages
- The heroic couple’s first scene together
- The villain’s first scene
- Plotting your course
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
