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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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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…