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NaNo Is Coming Up! Join Us 11/4 To Kick Off Your Motivation
We’re getting excited for NaNo and wanted to invite you to join us! I know it can sometimes be hard to find motivation or get past those blocks, but we’re here to help you keep focused and on track in your story! Register below if you’d like to join - it’s entirely free!
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Craft You Can’t Copyright Tropes: But You Can Make Them Your Own with Tere Michaels
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...- TereMichaels
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Craft Nail Your Concept and Discover Your Book’s True Purpose with Amy Bernstein
Whether you’re writing fiction, nonfiction, or memoir, the key to figuring out how to tell your story begins and ends with a concept. A concept isn’t about plot, characters, or dialogue. It’s the grand motif that ties everything in your story together—and helps you solve puzzles around...- Amy L Bernstein
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Plot-Structure-GMC Master Workshop in Story Planning with June Diehl
If you plan before you begin your draft or plan during the drafting part of your writing process, we’ll cover many of the techniques that you can use to help make your drafting go smoother. If you current do no or little planning before or during the writing of the story draft, we’ll explore...- pjune-yahoo.com
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Plot-Structure-GMC Plot Beats and Novel Planning with Kate McMurray
So you want to plan a novel. Are you more of a pantser? Are you allergic to outlines? Don’t know where to start? Just need a little help? Have no fear! Every novel has a few basic components. First, we’ll look at plot beats, the basic building blocks of a story, and think about ways to plan...- Kate McMurray
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Character Writing the Emotional Journey with June Diehl
Are your readers satisfied with your stories? Are they reluctant to put your story aside? At the end of your story, the reader should sigh, with a sense of satisfaction, when finishing your story, one which they will remember for a long time coming. So how does one create a satisfied reader...- pjune-yahoo.com
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Genre-Romance Cinderella at the Prom: How to do Write a Retelling with JoSelle Vanderhooft
From Gregory McGuire’s beloved Wicked to Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty Quartet to countless reimaginings of Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella, retellings are a perennial hot subject for writers. In this class, editor JoSelle Vanderhooft (also an author of numerous fairy tale retellings in prose...- Jo Vanderhooft
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