Career Writing Classes
How to Write a NovelHow To Revise Your NovelHow To Write A SeriesHow To Think SidewaysFree Intro Class
Core Skills Classes
Create A Character ClinicCreate A Plot ClinicWrite Page-Turning ScenesCreate A Language ClinicCreate A Culture ClinicCreate A World ClinicContent & Marketing Workshops
Find Your Writing VoiceHow to Write VillainsHow to Write Short Stories Write Dialogue With SubtextTCC Fiction Marketing7-Day Crash RevisionWriting Focus & Motivation
21 Ways to Get WritingFind Your Writing DisciplineHow To Motivate YourselfBeat Writer's BlockOptional
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Career Writing Classes
for Serious Fiction Writers
for Serious Fiction Writers
How to Write A Novel
You've dreamed of writing a novel. Or novels. But after a lot of false starts, you're beginning to think this is just something other people do.
It isn't.
You can do this.
$770.00
Single Payment $770.00
$77.00 per month
for 10 months
How to Revise Your Novel: Get the Book You WANT from the WRECK You Wrote
Between the insane extremes of “Never revise your work!” and “You must revise your work a dozen times!” ...
...lives the sane middle ground.
Figure out what you imagined. Figure out what you wrote. Figure out what you want the story to become.
And then, following the old adage, “Measure twice, cut once,” revise your story.
But only once.
$420.00
Single Payment $420.00
$70.00 per month
for 6 months
$42.00 per month
for 10 months
How to Write a Series: Master the Art of Sequential Fiction
Many readers love series fiction. And so do many writers.
But between the readers who buy it and the writers who create it lies a minefield of structural disasters, plotting nightmares, development errors, and just plain dumb mistakes that can kill even the best and most-loved series.
All of these errors are avoidable.
Learn how to write the series you and your readers will love…without crashing it.
$497.00
Single Payment $497.00
$83.00 per month
for 6 months
How to Think Sideways: Career Survival School for Writers
This is my flagship beginner-to-pro build-your-fiction-career class.
In 29 weekly lessons, this class covers everything from overcoming the mindsets that keep you from writing to generating ideas, writing your fiction, developing projects, getting and working with with editors and agents and artists or publishing your own work, and so much more.
Serious about going pro? Here’s where you start.
$697.00
Single Payment $697.00
$88.00 per month
for 8 months
$47.00 per month
for 15 months
My Free Introductory Writing Class
How To Write Flash Fiction that Doesn’t SUCK
Good flash fiction requires good storytelling...
And good storytelling is NOT stream of consciousness, slice of life, or free-writing. NOT just throwing words on a page and calling that a story.
The reason most people people think they hate flash fiction is because they’ve never read any real flash fiction. But if you know who O.Henry is, or Fredric Brown, or Aesop, you know what amazing things can happen in just 500 words.
They were masters of good storytelling… and that's what I’ll teach you how to write in this free three week class… Tell a GOOD story.
Already a member? Then you already have this class.
Single-Skill Writing Clinics
Create a
Character Clinic
DESCRIPTION: Fictional characters are not a collection of stats or tics. They’re people whose thoughts, words, and actions make them real to readers.
No fluff, no theory, fun step-by-step process for creating interesting, compelling, people to inhabit your fiction.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Ebook in Kindle, ePub, and printable PDF format, worksheets, discussion forum, site membership.
$9.99
Create a
Plot Clinic
DESCRIPTION: Plotting is giving your characters compelling things to do… then figuring out how the consequences of their actions matter to your story.
No fluff, no theory, fun step-by-step process for creating fast, flexible, compelling plots. Helps pantsers and overplotters.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Ebook in Kindle, ePub, and printable PDF format, worksheets, discussion forum, site membership.
$9.95
How To Write
Page-Turning Scenes
DESCRIPTION: You’ve written a scene when something critical to your story changes. Recognizing that change, and why it matters, is where things can get tricky.
No fluff, no theory, fun step-by-step process for writing scenes, that starts with basic exercises and moves to advanced techniques.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Ebook in Kindle, ePub, and printable PDF format, worksheets, discussion forum, site membership.
$9.95
Create a
Language Clinic
DESCRIPTION: Whether you need a way to figure out better names for your characters or locations or want to build fiction-usable languages for your stories, this clinic will help you get the job done.
No fluff, no theory, fun step-by-step process for creating naming systems, foreign concepts, and language-based plot conflicts.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Ebook in Kindle, ePub, and printable PDF format, worksheets, discussion forum, site membership.
$9.95
Create a
Culture Clinic
DESCRIPTION: Whether you simply need to show why your characters’ neighbors don’t get along, or you want to build out two warring species and why they’re at ware, this will get you there.
No fluff, no theory, fun step-by-step process for creating cultural groups, religions, philosophies, and culture-based plot conflicts.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Ebook in Kindle, ePub, and printable PDF format, worksheets, discussion forum, site membership.
$9.95
Create a
World Clinic
DESCRIPTION: Whether you to confine your story to just one room, or whether you want to build a working universe with different physics for your stories, here’s how you do it.
No fluff, no theory, fun step-by-step process for creating settings for your fiction, from a single room to entire galaxies.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Ebook in Kindle, ePub, and printable PDF format, Geek-Deep videos, maps, worksheets, discussion forum, site membership.
$9.95
Writing Content and Marketing Workshops
24-Hour Intensive: Find Your Writing Voice
DESCRIPTION: Your writing voice is not a gift or an accident of birth. Your voice is you… when you are being someone else.
Every writer can build, refine, and master the voice (or voices) perfect for the stories you want to tell.
With 24 writing hours of focused practice on the essentials that create your voice, you will see a significant improvement in YOUR voice.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Clear instructions with demos, 72 writing hours of prebuilt writing exercises (144 with suggested variant), exercise-building tools for unlimited practice, workshop forum for help and accountability, timer, permanent access.
$77.00
How to Write Villains
DESCRIPTION: Eight weekly lessons with writing assignments
- Understanding Evil and Villainy
- Creating Good, Bad, and Evil Characters
- Sympathy, Empathy, and Villainy
- Reprenting Evil: Showing Instead of Telling
- Controlling Characters and Story
- The "Come-Back" Villain: When Readers Are Reading Your Story for Your Villain
- Dealing With Writing Evil
Level:Beginner to Pro
Includes:
- Eight comprehensive PDF lessons.
- Printable PDF worksheets.
- Diagrams and charts as needed.
- Private Class Forum for lesson work, help, and practice.
- Permanent in-version access, and all in-version upgrades free.
$97.00
Single Payment $97.00
$49.00 per month
for 2 months
How to Write Short Stories
DESCRIPTION: Eight weekly lessons with writing assignments
- LESSON 1 - How to Think Short: Painless Short Story Idea Creation
- LESSON 2 - How to Plan Short: Fun, Effective Story Design
- LESSON 3 - How to Write Short: Get the Story You Want at the Length You Need
- LESSON 4 - How to End Short: Landing Twist, Resolution, and Meaning
- LESSON 5 - How to Revise Short: Find and Fix Everything In One Comprehensive Revision
- LESSON 6 - Contests, Anthologies, Collections, Spin-Offs: Short Fiction to Build Your Reputation & Market Your Brand
- LESSON 7 - Time and the Short Story: Writing 50 Years in 6000 Words
- LESSON 8 - Identifying & Writing Fundamental Genre Elements
Level:Beginner to Pro
Includes:
- Eight comprehensive PDF lessons.
- Printable PDF worksheets.
- Diagrams and charts as needed.
- Demos and short stories (by the author) for dissection.
- Private Class Forum for lesson work, help, and practice.
- Permanent in-version access, and all in-version upgrades free.
$97.00
Single Payment $97.00
$49.00 per month
for 2 months
How to Write Dialogue With Subtext
DESCRIPTION: The myth is that Subtext is some complex technique of master writers that cannot even be comprehended by the “little people."
In fact, you can teach a reasonably intelligent eight-year-old how to find the subtext in fiction.
Plan to spend 3 days mastering the techniques I present. Then come back as needed (you have permanent access) to brush up.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Videos, transcripts, worksheets, always-available classroom for re-taking or brushing up on techniques, forum for discussions, brainstorming, and help.
$77.00
Title. Cover. Copy. Fiction Marketing Workshop
DESCRIPTION: With nonfiction, you can build a bestseller with marketing triggers based on need.
With fiction, hype and triggers don’t work. (Ask me how I know.)
You have to grow a readership… and you have to do that one reader at a time, using just three tools well.
Title.
Cover.
And Copy.
Level:Advanced Writers Only.
Designed for indie authors with completed manuscripts.
Includes: 3 weeks of lessons and worksheets, demos and examples, private forum discussions, help, and feedback, live testing of your in-progress and finished work, permanent workshop access, future basic access to split-testing software.
$97.00
7-Day Crash Revision
DESCRIPTION: For beginning through advanced writers, a clear introduction to the basic principles of manuscript revision with worksheets and step-by-step instructions.
For pros, the complete process for turning around an editor's revision requests on a manuscript on deadlines as short as 7 days.
Level:Beginner to Pro
Includes:
(retake this class alone or with other
writers as often as you like)
$37.00
“Get Back On Track” Writing Workshops
21 Ways To Get Yourself Writing
DESCRIPTION: …When Your Life Has Just Exploded
DESCRIPTION: Life's disasters can bring your creativity and your ability to produce words (fiction or nonfiction) to a screeching halt. If you're words to pay the bills, you need to be get writing as quickly as possible. Here are the 21 techniques that worked for me.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes: Ebook in PDF format, worksheets, private classmates-only discussion forum, site membership.
$14.00
How To Find Your Writing Discipline
DESCRIPTION: To find your writing discipline, you have to know where your time is going, and why it’s going there. And then you have to decide which parts of your life stay, and which parts go.
Find and embrace your own butt-in-chair writing discipline with this simple system, and step-by-step, three-days-plus-twenty-minutes workshop.
Level:Beginner through pro.
Includes:
$17.00
How To Motivate Yourself
DESCRIPTION: DESCRIPTION: Everyone has excuses for not writing, and all of them are good. To motivate yourself, your excuses for writing have to be better.
You don't need mind tricks, or cheerleaders. You need to understand what motivates you, and why, and then you need to put your motivation in reach.
Level:Beginner through intermediate (pros making a regular living writing are welcome, though).
Includes: 7 in-class videos with available downloads, printable PDF transcripts and worksheets, complete workshop outline, discussion forum, site membership.
$77.00
How To Beat Writer's Block
DESCRIPTION: DESCRIPTION: Painful truth: No one can do everything.
To find your writing discipline, you have to know where your time is going, and why it’s going there. And then you have to decide which parts of your life stay, and which parts go.
Level:
Beginner through pro.
Includes: PDF instructions and worksheets, forum discussions, brainstorming, and help.
$47.00
Career Writing Classes
How to Write a NovelHow To Revise Your NovelHow To Write A SeriesHow To Think SidewaysFree Intro Class
Core Skills Classes
Create A Character ClinicCreate A Plot ClinicWrite Page-Turning ScenesCreate A Language ClinicCreate A Culture ClinicCreate A World ClinicContent & Marketing Workshops
Find Your Writing VoiceHow to Write VillainsHow to Write Short Stories Write Dialogue With SubtextTCC Fiction Marketing7-Day Crash RevisionWriting Focus & Motivation
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