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    Craft Visual Writing: Story Boards & Story Maps with Joan Koster

    Are you a VISUAL WRITER? Instead of words, do you see images in your head? Do you use photos of settings and characters as inspiration to write from? Do you want to? Come explore both paper and pencil, mental, and digital approaches to visual storytelling and learn how to harness this skill to...
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    Craft Laugh, Cry, and Throb: Writing Emotion with Joan Koster

    Discover new ways to show powerful emotion on the page that reaches into readers’ hearts and guts, using a rich mixture of sensory description, body language, close point-of-view, and visceral reactions.
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    Plot-Structure-GMC Create a Story Bible for your Novel or Book Series with Joan Koster

    Do you lose track of what you write? Can’t remember what color car the criminal was driving in your romantic suspense? Forgot the name of the tavern the coach stopped at in book 2 of your Regency trilogy? Can’t remember the skill set of each of the six demons in your paranormal series? Are you...