• Explore the creative process, including inspiration, muses, and writer's block
• Create believable characters that your readers will care about
• Learn to avoid common problems in dialogue writing
• Learn the essentials of plot and conflict
• Learn to use description to engage your readers
• Create depictions of people, places, and things in a fresh fashion
• Use setting to advance your plot and affect your characters

Class dates:

• Saturday, September 8, 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Fiction Writing, Part 2 - Advanced
This six-hour class will teach you about:

• The most common problems with beginnings, middles, and endings of your story
• Structuring your scenes to make logical sense and to engage the reader
• Narrative, Dramatic, and Authorial story voices, and how to create distinct character voices
• Developing the theme of your story
• Revision and editing, turning a good piece of writing into a great one
• Preparing your manuscript for submission
• The markets to whom you should submit your work
• The role of literary agents and how to find the right one to represent you
• Publishers and the publishing process, including traditional, imprints, self-publishing, and POD services

Class dates:

• Saturday, October 6, 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.