This is your opportunity to get your fingers moving and ideas flowing. We’ll write in a group using 7-minute writing games: themed lists, music title prompts, passing a prompt to another participant, and more. You’ll have the opportunity to share a piece of writing with the group to receive some positive feedback. This session will […]
This workshop explores how writers can become stronger storytellers by learning to read analytically. Rather than reading only for pleasure or content, participants will learn how to “read like a […]
Once your book is published, you are running a small business. This workshop explores the practical, financial, and administrative responsibilities involved in publishing and selling books, helping authors understand the […]
While raising the number of social media followers isn’t a magic formula for selling books or gaining traction with agents and publishers, it is a trust signal to the people […]
Learn the tricks that deepen your point-of-view narrator so that readers feel like they are right in the action and not watching from the sidelines. In this workshop, we discuss […]
Most writing craft courses and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on. And on and […]
What is meant by “showing” versus “telling” and how can you tell the difference? Is it ever okay to “tell?” Is there such a thing as showing too much? Explore […]
We start with most writers’ goal of getting their book onto Indigo bookshelves and discuss why this is a bad goal to have and why an author should pursue it, […]
This workshop explores how to build a strong story by starting with the ending and working backward. Participants will learn how themes, character arcs, and conflict work together to shape […]