| 2 days : $375 includes 25-page workbook with a complete guide to resources for unpublished authors. Course Outline Day One: Part I: Getting Your Start The morning is devoted to creativity exercises designed to overcome "The Blank Page Syndrome". Experiment with starting with a sentence, a character, a situation, a setting, a conflict, a voice; when to start at the beginning, the middle or the end; three questions to ask yourself that are guaranteed to keep your story going; the one thing you must do before starting your book Part 2: Making it Your Own The secret of the perfect "pitch", defining your style, finding your voice. A series of hands-on written exercises will help you single out your book's unique characteristics and teach you how to capitalize on them. Learn how to breathe fresh life into your pages at any point in the process, how to execute smooth transitions between scenes, chapters and headings, how to use points of view and suspense to keep readers reading-- whether your book is a how-to or a thriller. DAY TWO Part 3: Finding your Muse This morning you will explore creativity through a series of written exercises and class discussions that force you to think outside the box. Are you writing the book you were meant to write? Are you telling it with your own unique voice? Learn the value of genre, branding and labeling-- and how to make those things work for your book. Learn how to capture that elusive concept, how to spin a familiar idea into something the public will clamor to read, how to keep readers interested by keeping yourself excited. What to do when you "bog down", lose motivation, or hit a brick wall. Master the exercises that will get you to the finish line. Part 4: Publishing Your Book Writing a book proposal or synopsis; the perfect query letter. Finding an agent or a publisher and exploring alternative publishing options. What you can expect from the publishing process; which rights you should keep and which you should expect to forfeit, a guide to the editorial process. Before and after publication marketing; what you can and cannot do to increase sales. Where do you go from here? |
Creating Your Novel
Beyond Words
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