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    Craft Start With A Bang! Write a Great Inciting Incident with Cynthia Owens

    Everyone wants the first chapter of their novel to jump off the page and make the reader want to read on until the end. We spend hours on the plot, the settings, the characters and so much more. But one of the best ways to hook your reader is to write a great inciting incident. Start With a...
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    Craft Writing Killer Plot Twists with Cynthia Owens

    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...
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    Craft The Captive Audience: Writing a Series with Cynthia Owens

    There’s a meme going around Facebook that said: “Happiness is finishing a great book, and finding out it’s part of a series.” I think that’s true. Everyone love to read series. Revisiting familiar characters is like spending time with old friends. In A Captive Audience: Writing a Series, we...
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    Stop the presses! There might be a buyer for Savvy!!!

    I'd love to see S.A. continue!
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    Worldbuilding-Setting Bring Your Settings to Life with Cynthia Owens

    In Bring Your Setting To Life, we will examine various methods for plunging your reader into your setting and making it real. We will cover: · The Basics—Time, place and mood. · World Buildings—Researching your setting. · Make Your Setting a Character—Give your setting a unique...
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    Character Define Your Characters with Dialogue with 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 characters. The most important thing to remember when you’re creating character is to make them...
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    Character Take Your Characters From Flat to Fabulous with Cynthia Owens

    Take Your Characters From Flat to Fabulous: Creating Characters Your Readers Will Love will examine how to take a character from a flat, formless idea to a living, breathing, three-dimensional person that readers can root for, care about, and fall in love with. We will cover: · The...
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