We hope you can join us for our New Member Orientation on Tuesday, February 1 at 12:00 PM CST on Zoom. We'll share a short presentation about the ins and outs of membership, including the many member benefits you can take advantage of, how to set up your member experience on the WLT website, special programs and opportunities … Continue reading New Member Orientation February 2022
Log in, sit down, write. It’s that easy. In 2022, the WLT will host two write-ins every month, January through December. These will be 3-hour sessions on Zoom (video off, audio off). No speaker or presentation, but your friendly WLT staff will welcome you at the start and will check back in at the end. … Continue reading 2022 Write-In February 5
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. This class is a part of the "Novel Essentials" Class Package. A scene can be simply defined as characters doing something in a particular place at a particular time. Vivid scenes allow the reader to live in … Continue reading “Crafting a Vivid Scene from Beginning to End” with Chaitali Sen
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. Don’t let the dreaded synopsis defeat you. Come learn the key features and common mistakes for your fiction synopsis. At some point, every writer will need to write a synopsis of their completed book. But too often … Continue reading “Getting Your Synopsis Ready for Competitions, Agents, and Editors” with Richard Z. Santos
$99 for Members $159 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. The deadline to submit a scene for the workshop has passed. Talent for dialogue is not an inborn skill. Anyone can learn to write razor-sharp dialogue! As readers, there are probably a lot of craft issues we … Continue reading “Anatomy of a Scene: A Deep Dive into Dialogue” with Stacey Swann
Log in, sit down, write. It’s that easy. In 2022, the WLT will host two write-ins every month, January through December. These will be 3-hour sessions on Zoom (video off, audio off). No speaker or presentation, but your friendly WLT staff will welcome you at the start and will check back in at the end. … Continue reading 2022 Write-In February 15
In fiction, anything is possible. As writers, we can create entirely new worlds straight from our imagination, we can travel back in time to worlds we can no longer touch, we can shift the reality we know, or speculate about what our future looks like. The possibilities are endless. But whether you’re writing a science … Continue reading February Third Thursday: “Worldbuilding in Fiction”
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. This class is a part of the "Novel Essentials" Class Package. Learn how to use your characters to drive your plot forward. In this class, you will learn how to establish and develop compelling characters that will … Continue reading “Creating Authentic Characters in Fiction” with John Pipkin
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. You have a lifetime of unique stories to tell. But do you know how to take those ordinary – and sometimes not-so-ordinary – experiences and transform them into extraordinary reading that will leave your readers hungry for … Continue reading “Memoir in Miniature: The Art of the Personal Essay” with M. M. Adjarian
