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 […]
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 […]
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 […]