Puzzling Out the Necessary Bits with Author Beth Daniels November 11 - December 8, 2013 About the Workshop Have you gotten rejection after rejection on manuscripts that your beta readers love but editors quibble over. You know the kind of rejection: “Love your writing style but the story just isn’t right for us.” As nice as the compliment was, what you really want is a contract, right? So what the heck was missing or wrong to make the story not “right” for the publisher? This is the workshop where we dig into what’s being published to find the elements that slipped from our grasp before and make note them for inclusion in current or future projects. The one thing students will be required to have are one or two books in the same genre that they really love. Books written by other authors, that is. These can be two by the same author or they can be by different authors. Why do we need them? Because they are going to serve as the treasure map, the mine to be plundered. From the elements gathered from these stories a personal format for use in our own books will be built. Some of the things we’ll look at are: characters, settings, professions, technology, detail, backstory, tension level, comedy level, rise and fall of action, heat level of love scenes, dialogue/language, and anything else that appears pertinent based on what style and what genre each student is working within. The class would run four weeks with lectures and/or assignments posted on Mondays and Wednesdays. Comments from the instructor on posted questions or completed assignments would be answered prior to the next Monday’s lecture. This class is for unpublished and newly published writers and for those interested in switching genres or the style of story within a genre. ce.savvyauthors/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventId=1086
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:57:18 +0000
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