“Making Your Scenes Three-Dimensional Through the Five Senses” with Craig Martelle
This is an interactive workshop to deepen your scenes. You will be writing and we will review, live.
“Sustainable Project Management for Creatives” with Marie Whittaker
The method taught in this class encompasses the Writers' Life and helps creatives to find the work-life balance using a custom, agile model designed with creatives in mind.
“Supercharge Your Sales by Mastering the Customer Connection” with Lydia Sherrer and David Sherrer
Join us for an immersive 3-hour intensive class designed to empower authors with strategies to boost sales by building strong connections with customers. Learn from industry experts Lydia Sherrer and David Sherrer as they share insights on distilling emotional promises, mastering in-person sales and networking, and cultivating digital tribes.
“Outlining Mastery” with Nick Thacker
How to outline books that sell.
“From Idea to the End” with Kevin Ikenberry
A complete toolkit for building a novel.
“Setting the Stage on the Page: Making the WHERE Matter” with Lisa Mangum
An overview of basic world-building issues to consider along with techniques for how to make setting more symbolic.
“Playing God: Creating Planets and Peoples for Prose and Profit” with Chuck Gannon
The objective is to help you create the best—and most natural—planets on which to set your stories. We’ll start with a few key tricks of the planet-creating trade, move on to some familiar examples, but the real fun starts in the second half of the session, where we’ll give all that information a test run . . . in a workshop where you get to create (or enrich) the planet and people you want to use for your stories.
“Strata: the Underlying Layers of Skillful Writing” with Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta
There is more to writing skill than just avoiding typos and grammatical errors. Like a mountain, good writing is supported by countless layers of substance that may not be visible on the surface—dialog, pacing, theme, sensory images, micro-storytelling, and more. Do you know the strata of good writing?
TBD with Jim Butcher
TBD.
“Automate to Dominate: Transforming Direct Sales with Email Automation” with Dana Claire
Create reader retention, boost sales, and increase customer lifetime value all with email automations that make you money while you sleep.
“Chasing Hollywood” with Jonathan Maberry
In today’s Hollywood the writer is king. Many of today’s hottest movies and TV shows are based on IPs (Intellectual Properties)—aka your published works. NY Times Jonathan Maberry (V-Wars, Rot & Ruin, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Joe Ledger) discusses how to break in; options; becoming Executive Producers; crafting a pitch-deck; dealing with studio execs; and much more. This is the true insiders’ perspective on moving your work from print to screen.
“Sharpening Your Writer's Third Eye” with Michael La Ronn
A hands on workshop on how to write better using techniques used by the top 1% of fiction writers.
“Top 20 Mistakes” with Joshua Essoe
Joshua Essoe, a professional editor, gives an in depth look at the top 20 mistakes he sees writers most frequently making in fiction writing.
“The Cover Story: A Workshop on Cover Design” with James A. Owen
In this workshop, James will discuss how to bring together all of the elements that make a successful, attractive cover, and then demonstrate by live workshopping up to four covers submitted by attendees. Anyone wishing to have their cover(s) considered needs to to submit a PDF by no later than January 20th. I'll choose up to four to workshop, and will probably comment on several more. No one is required to submit covers, since teaching attendees about what works is the point of the class – but if anyone wishes to, they may end up with all-new covers at the end of the session.
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