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Come Alive: Bringing Characters to Life Through Role Play and Storytelling

In Person, Livestreamed and Recorded What do Sherlock Holmes, Elizabeth Bennet, and Jamie Fraser have in common? They leap off the page (or screen) with their richness. After this lively, interactive masterclass, your characters will, too. Great fiction starts with great characters. Setting, plot, p
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Practical Strategy Building for Writers

Online and Recorded Create a strong foundation to reach agents, editors, readers – and grow your writing career with confidence. You don’t need a marketing degree, a hundred thousand followers, or a custom website to build a writing career. What you need is simple: a home base online where r
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Weaving a Love Story Into Your Work

Online and Recorded Whether the romantic element takes front-stage-centre or hides in the shadows offstage, nearly every work of fiction has a love story in it somewhere. We’ll look at ways to craft n this workshop we’ll look at ways to craft that avoid clichés, deepen the themes in your writin
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Beginners’ Intensive: A New Writer’s Guide to Surviving the Vast Multiverse of Publishing

Online and Recorded Things have changed a little since Jane Austin ventured out to publish her first novel. The 21st century book world can seem more like a giant multiverse full of too many options to explore, leaving new writers struggling to know where to begin. Whether you are looking to share y
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Short Story Intensive

Online and Recorded When people struggle to write short fiction, the problem usually begins with the idea. It often leads to a story that is too long, or the beginning of a novel, or so simplistic that it is dull. In this workshop, we’ll walk through the process of how to create and structure
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Backstory and How Not to Shoot Yourself in the Foot With It

Online and Recorded In this class, we’ll cover back story, what it is and why it matters. For instance, though characters **are** what they **do**, every surprising action has to make sense in light of the character’s past. The challenge for the novelist is finding “Page One” and then re
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Writing Romantic Comedy

In Person Only Romantic comedies have always been popular in movie theaters, but lately they seem to be everywhere in bookstores, too. In this workshop, Farah will delve deeply into what differentiates a rom com from a traditional romance and discuss necessary elements to a great romantic comedy. Wi
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Building a Values-Aligned Author Journey

In Person Only – Limited to 15 participants Every step we take along our author journey requires us to make choices. And each and every decision we make contributes to the experiences we’ll have, people we’ll meet, money we’ll make, opportunities that present themselves, the
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The Magic of Revision

In Person Only Finishing the first draft of your novel is just the beginning. But revision doesn’t have to be a chore: it can be exciting and rewarding, and when it goes well, it can feel downright magical. Revision is about re-envisioning your story with fresh eyes and finally seeing the forest a
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Dungeons, Dragons, and Dialogue: Writing for Tabletop Role-playing Games (TTRPGs)

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded Over the past decade, tabletop roleplaying games have grown from a niche pastime into a multi-billion-dollar creative industry. While Dungeons & Dragons remains the most iconic TTRPG, major publishers and indie creators launch thousands of games each year t
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How to Talk and Write About Your Book

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded Sometimes it feels easier to write a whole book than it is to pitch, summarize, or talk about one. This interactive session will give an overview on how to talk (and write) about your book in one sentence, in one paragraph, and in one page. We'll go over use
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Escaping Creative Hell: How to Reinvigorate Your Creativity and Live Again!

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded Do you ever feel stuck? Frozen? Devoid of ideas? Depression or fatigue at how to execute them? Welcome to the artists’ club! But here’s the good news: I guarantee you can escape this creative hell to complete your unfinished works and start (and finish) new
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Personal Essay Structures

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded Let’s explore the spirals, braids, reflections, and segments that inform the myriad of ways to structure our personal essays. In this master class, we will diagram essay shapes used by notable writers and discover ways to expand and explode shapes to fit our o
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Crafting a Cosy Mystery in 3 Easy Steps

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded Crafting a mystery can be fraught with peril, but there are three questions that lie at the heart of the terror: Who are the suspects? What makes them suspects? Who is the sleuth? This session will help participants use those three questions to kickstart a kille
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Cross-Media Storytelling

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded Finding the right platform for your writing is as important as the story itself. From novels to novellas, screenplays to audio plays, fiction to non-fiction, cross-media storytelling is a vital part of the “process”. This masterclass will take a deep
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The Weight of the World: Packing Your Character’s Baggage

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded So you’ve got a world. And a character. Amazing! But how does your character move through that world? How do their identities, experiences, and events within that world affect the way they make decisions, relate to others, and understand the world around t
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An Ear For Dialogue

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded Have you ever heard of someone having “a good ear for dialogue?” Have you ever read a book or watched a movie and the dialogue felt real and natural? Whether you are writing a play, a novel, short story, memoir or screenplay, your characters need dialogue. I
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Elements of No-Fail Openings

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded Bad news: hook opening lines, inciting incidents, sharp voice and saving the cat may stir reader curiosity for a second or two, but their effects fade almost instantly. What is it that actually draws readers deeply into a story, and does so immediately? The hidd
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Pitching Your Novel: The Place Where Art and Business Meet

In Person, Livestreamed, and Recorded The “art of writing” and the “business of publishing” exist in two distinct silos. Sure, we want to “master our craft” and we also want to “make money in publishing” and, typically, the skills required in each of these spheres are
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