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HOLIDAY SPECIALS AND GIFTS
Because community is one of your most lucrative creative resources, I am offering a two-for-one special for the Success workshop. One person signs up, then (that day or before) emails me the name of another person, whom I will add for free.
Friend discount: If you sign up a friend for Building Your Book (the revision course), email me and I will refund you and your friend an additional $20 off each!
Need Editing? Join my private course and let's get your book out the door and on its way.To apply, send me an email with your name, a brief description of your project, and a 250-word excerpt from the project for consideration.
| Success in the New Year:Building Your Book
January 15, 2008 - March 1, 2008 Online and via Skype
Become an ace, clear-eyed, effective editor of your own work. Leave with a revised, tight, polished book and a community of writers that makes you laugh.
Ace Editor 201
January 15, 2008 - March 1, 2008 Online and via Skype
Become an ace, multi-level editor. Learn grace and skill. Although we will approach some of the issues from a different angle and have different assignments, this course will follow the trajectory of the revision course, Building Your Book.
Success:
Investing (In) Your Creative ResourcesJanuary 11, 2008 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (with breaks!), via SKYPEIn these financially troubling times, there is only one sure investment that pays immediate dividends and has strong growth potential all at the same time: you. TechniqueThis amazing course will change the metabolism of your writing and show you muscles that you didn't know you had.
Five Easy Steps To Enroll in Any of These Courses
1) Click on Login up in the header.
2) Create a New Account.
3) You will be sent an email with a link to follow to confirm your new account.
4) Click on the link, and you will be back at the Online Learning Center.
5) Click on the name of the course you want to enroll in, and follow the links to PayPal. (If you are eligible for a special discount, email me and I will tell you how to pay.)
NaNo Complete is the discounted bundle of online courses to get you started, keep you going and polish up your NaNoWriMo novel. (It is the whole series: Framing Your Novel, Gathering Your Materials, and Building Your Book. See below for descriptions of the individual parts.) The class will include published writers, folks with M.F.A.s, and people who've never though of writing a book before, but they will become your Olympic Novel-writing Team.
In order to be prepared to write a novel in November, we will spend October plotting and planning. Character motivation, conflict, and obstacles will be developed, as well as a causal plot that builds and turns: a solid frame under which to gather your materials come November.
The pace of NaNoWriMo can be thrilling--and grueling! As you gather your materials, this course will keep you inspired, with daily check-ins, affirmations (yes--read my blog entry "In Praise of Praise" about how they work even if you don't believe in them), emergency aid and technique boosts to keep you writing and writing well.
Then don't stop when NaNoWriMo screeches to a halt. No publisher considers 50,000 words a novel, so we keep you going strong until mid-December and at least 60,000 words. Don't climb Mt. Everest alone; I'll be your Sherpa!
You've built a frame and you've gathered your materials, but it doesn't quite add up to a book . . . This is where NaNoWriMo leaves you high and dry--but Nano Complete has got you covered. First, we'll take a month off--because time is the greatest editor of them all. Then we'll gather again to look at what we've done and what we want to do, and how to get from one to the other. This course will give you the tools and secrets for transforming a manuscript into a novel--a collection of 60,000 words into a story your reader can't put down.
Workshops don't teach editing, and a lot of people don't understand the role of the ace editor--a passionate reader, an incisive observer, a writer's best friend. In this course, you will participate alongside writers editing manuscripts, learning how to hone the elements of narrative craft and how to find the best in a book and bring that forward.
If you aren't working on a manuscript right now, but you want the chance to sharpen your editorial skills, Ace Editor 201 is your course. Why 201? Because you are already a passionate reader, and perhaps also a writer or a coach or a teacher or a skilled individual who would like to ramp up your editing skills all the way.
In these financially troubling times, there is only one sure investment that pays immediate dividends and has strong growth potential all at the same time: you. Wait! This might sound cheesy, but cultivating and bolstering your creative resources is the surest path to success.
Pricing for Success workshop
Very early registration, by Dec. 15: $79
Early registration, by Jan. 1: $99
Late registration, by Jan. 8: $109
(Two-for-one deal applies to all who register at whatever level.)
This course offers you ten hours of personal editing and coaching. I will critique your manuscript, meet with you in person or over the phone, set up schedules, publishing plans, and writing goals. The course includes daily email check-ins!
To apply, please send me a brief description of your project and your background in writing and a 250 word sample of your writing from the project. Please include your phone number and email address. I will respond within 3 - 5 days. Thank you!
I offer eagle-eyed editing at the level of sentence, story and structure. In addition, I offer enthusiastic, supportive coaching to get you through the completion and marketing of your book at its best.
When you are accepted into the Private Course (one-on-one editing and coaching), you buy ten hours at a 25-percent discount. My normal rates are $100/ hour, but with the discount, ten hours costs you $750. Those hours may be used on an as-needed basis for conversation, coaching and editing, any time within a four-month period from purchase.
To apply, send me an email with your name, a brief description of your project, and a 250-word excerpt from the project for consideration.
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