• “Video Game Writing Portfolio” with Kim Sparks

    Virtual Event Online

    This eight-week workshop will help you develop your video game writing portfolio. You will write elements for your portfolio, including: a brief scene in script format, character bio, lore entry, object description, and barks/NPC dialogue. At the end of the course, you will have a one-on-one meeting with Kim to discuss your portfolio and next […]

  • What’s your Brand?

    Virtual Event Online

    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 buying your books that you are a ‘in real life’ person whom they can relate to. One of the questions I get asked the most […]

  • Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story

    Taylor’s Funeral Home 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

    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 on and on. Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer’s toolbox. The problem with that […]

  • Consignment and Book Selling Tips for Authors

    Virtual Event Online

    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, […]

  • Begin With the End in Mind: A Backward Design Approach to Storytelling

    Taylor’s Funeral Home 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

    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 […]