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All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. This class is a part of the Novel Essentials online class package.  No matter whether you’re writing a character-driven or plot-driven story, comedy, drama or tragedy, it’s the characters that readers follow. And to keep those characters moving and growing, you need conflict. … Continue reading “Throw More Stones: How to Build Character Through Conflict” ONLINE with Samantha M. Clark

$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. Demystify the nonfiction book proposal process.  Unlike fiction manuscripts, which are normally completed in full prior to being sold to an editor, nonfiction books are often sold "on proposal." This class is designed to demystify the process … Continue reading “Crafting a Nonfiction Book Proposal” ONLINE with Jessica Wilbanks

All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. This class is a part of the Novel Essentials online class package.  Your ending is as important as your beginning. Nailing your ending determines the success of the piece. Many of the best stories have memorable beginnings, but endings are equally important to … Continue reading “Final Pages, Final Paragraphs: Crafting the Right Ending for Fiction” ONLINE with Chaitali Sen

All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week.  In this workshop, we will dig deep into our personal narratives while looking outside of ourselves for ideas, events and motifs that link our experiences with larger threads of meaning. We will explore how associative thinking, research, reflection and personal culpability expand and … Continue reading “Mining the World for Meaning: How to Move Beyond the Personal in Memoir” ONLINE with Donna M. Johnson

All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. Setting is the hidden tool in the writer’s toolkit - learn to use it with more precision. Setting has the potential to energize plot, deepen tension, and reveal character nuances. Yet, many of us overlook this rich aspect of writing craft. This class … Continue reading “Anatomy of a Scene: Activating Setting” with Charlotte Gullick

$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. Join us as author and scriptwriter Jeramey Kraatz discusses the importance of dynamic dialogue and the vital role it plays in writing. On its surface, dialogue might seem like the easiest thing in the world to write. … Continue reading “Double Talk: Making Dialogue Work for You” ONLINE with Jeramey Kraatz

$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. The best methods for releasing a self-published book change radically every year. Whether you are working on your very first book or are about to launch your latest title, in this class we will review: Changes in … Continue reading “Launch to Success: Self Publishing in 2021” ONLINE with Deanna Roy

$99 for Members (only) This class is sold out.  All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. Are you struggling to write a novel synopsis to send to potential agents? In this special evening intensive class, you will learn the necessary components of a novel synopsis in the classroom component, and … Continue reading “Crafting an Effective Novel Synopsis” ONLINE with Richard Z. Santos

$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. Modern poets are always inventing something new. Why can't you? For centuries, poets have bent word into classic forms like the sonnet and the sestina. Many of these offer structure and allow poets to pay homage and … Continue reading “Everyday Poetics: Creating Modern Forms” ONLINE with Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one week. Find the sound of your manuscript. Voice is the Loch Ness Monster of the literary world—a nebulous, evasive entity that nobody can describe perfectly, yet we know it when we see it. Publishers want it, reviewers swoon … Continue reading “Finding Your Voice” ONLINE with Heather Harper Ellett