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Attend my pre-event Master Class at the upcoming Writers Digest Novel Writing Conference

The 2019 annual Writers Digest Novel Writing Workshop will be held OCTOBER 24-27, 2019, at the Pasadena (CA) Westin Hotel. 

(Apologies: this post went out with the incorrect month shown; the correct dates are October 24-27, 2019. Several other dates shown here have been corrected.)

I will be teaching an all-day interactive craft workshop on Thursday, October 24th, at the Westin Hotel in Pasadena CA. It’s based on the unique content from my new writing book, which releases from Writers Digest Books almost concurrently with this event. This is an opportunity to kick your writing career into another gear, on a steeper trajectory.

Click HERE to go to the Master Class registration site.

This 1-day interactive workshop requires a separate fee from the main Novel Writing conference that follows over the weekend ($199, or $149 if you opt for both events).Keep reading, all will become clear. Two events at the same venue, with two different enrollment fees… with discounts available for both.

The full 3-day Writers Digest Novel Writing Conference ($399 if you pre-register) kicks off the next day, Friday October 25th through Sunday the 27th, at the same hotel (which is world-class, by the way). If you register for both events you’ll get a discount on the Thursday Master Class (see previous bullet)… and, in addition, as a Storyfix reader, you can get $50 off the 3-day conference fee by applying this code during registration: WDSPEAKER19 (Note: it is not necessary to take the Master Class to get this discount off the 3-day conference.)

In addition to the all-day Thursday Master Class, I will will also be presenting two separate 90-minute workshops during the regular conference agenda (Friday and Saturday mornings, respectively) that go deep into essential issues of the craft.

Click HERE to go to the full conference website, where you can preview speakers, keynotes and workshops, as well as access the registration pages for either event.

• Like most complex tasks, writing a novel that works—those two words being key, because anybody can cobble together 400 pages that don’t—comes with criteria that imbue efficacy and excellence, and there are dozens of them to consider. They are sometimes regarded as standards or best practices, rather than specific targets that enrich story development.
• This Master Class is all about those part-specific criteria.
• Professional novelists often understand these criteria in an instinctual way, while newer writers are left to discover for themselves the layered nuances that cause a novel to sizzle and soar. But even experienced authors realize that instinct alone may not be enough.
• This isn’t an issue of process, but rather, a means of empowering your preferred process, whatever that may look like.In this full-day workshop, Larry Brooks—author of Great Stories Don’t Write Themselves and three other bestselling books on writing craft—will examine element-specific criteria across the entire arc of a story, including:
  • How to vet the writing conversation and recognize what works for you.
  • How to make your writing process—any writing process—more efficient.
  • The rarely plumbed depths of the story conception stage, where story ideas must become viable, fully-wired premises.
  • The essential nature of scenes, and the criteria that make them work.
  • The truth about story structure, which is more an issue of flow and context than simply advancing plot.
  • Criteria that apply to SEVENTEEN SPECIFIC AREAS of developing and executing a novel will be explored… beginning with the story idea itself, and then through the vast complexities of assembling an emotionally-resonant dramatic arc.

Who this session is for:

  • Beginning novelists looking to advance their story intuition.
  • Professional novelists who’ve hit a wall or need a reboot.
  • Novelists in any genre seeking to up their game.
  • Writers seeking to better understand “the sum of the parts” of story.

This information empowers a higher level of narrative power and an earlier arrival at a “final” draft that leaves nothing untended on the table.

This is the stuff you wish you’d have know when you started out, and just possibly have yet to fully encounter. It is the stuff experienced professionals understand and execute, often as a matter of instinct, yet rarely talk about at this level of accessibility and clarity.

They want you to think that all you have to do is just write. But there is orders of magnitude more specificity to it than that.

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