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New Summer Coast Workshop…
Writing Long and Short in Your Series… Yes, we are trying a summer workshop again after five years of no summer workshops. Many have asked us for a summer writing and craft workshop and here it is. Limited to only ten from out of the area and only four locals from the area. COME SPEND A WEEK ON THE BEACH IN THE SUMMER ——————- Writing Series Stories and Novels July 21st- 28th, 2018 Taught by the multiple genre award-winning writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch (with a little help from Dean Wesley Smith). Both Kris and Dean have many successful series to their name in their forty-plus years of writing. This will be an…
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WRITING INTO THE DARK: A New Online Workshop
WRITING INTO THE DARK… Learn how to write clean, first-draft novels and stories without ever outlining or rewriting. Yes, it can be done and most long-time professional writers do just that. Learn how to bring the fun of storytelling back to your writing and become more prolific along the way. This class will be full of techniques, myth-busting, and exercises to help you learn to write clean, first-draft novels that never need to be rewritten. If you automatically thought that can’t be done, you really need this workshop. If you are trapped in the myth of rewriting things until they are mush, you really need this workshop. If writing is…
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One Time Branding Workshop
THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THIS WILL BE OFFERED… (Added note: Now full. Sorry.) Allyson Longueira, the publisher of WMG Publishing has offered to design a cover and help brand a series for a limited number of writers. For those of you who don’t know her, Allyson is an award-winning designer who also happens to have a masters degree in design. Over the years, Allyson helped writers with cover design in coast workshops here and for a short time we did a basic cover design workshop to help writers learn how to do covers. But this one-time short workshop is different. Working with you, Allyson will design a brand for your series and…
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Lecture Series Solution
Writing and a Lecture Idea… Since I talked about IP valuation in the last chapter of The Magic Bakery, it has become clear that there are levels that might be valuable to a few writers to be offered in some format or another. And got some great comments in e-mail to me about the real need for a bunch of these areas, from IP to Corporation structures to writer tax issues and so on and so on. We cover some basics, very basic, in the online Business Workshop, and we go into pretty good depth at the Business Master Class here at the coast in October. But that is it. And…
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Topic of the Night: A New Online Workshop: Teams in Fiction
Kris and I have decided, once again, to tackle a really, really important area of fiction, but one we believe most writers flat don’t understand or even realize exists. Teams in Fiction Basically, when Lester Dent (under a pen name) invented Doc Savage, he broke an old fiction tradition of one character and a sidekick. With Doc Savage, he created five team members that worked around Doc and by doing so set the template for all modern fiction. Think about your favorite shows. NCIS, the number one show on television, has Gibbs in the middle and his team around him. Captain Kirk and his team. Luke and his team in Star…