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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.
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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.
Learn how to write the series you and your readers will love…without crashing it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DESCRIPTION: Eight weekly lessons with writing assignments
Level:Beginner to Pro
Includes:
DESCRIPTION: Eight weekly lessons with writing assignments
Level:Beginner to Pro
Includes:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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