Look at ways to create ideas that truly are different from what has come before—or at least learn to help readers feel like they’re experiencing something unique in your story.
Writer's Craft: Dialogue, It Is Not Just People Talking!
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Join award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake as he gives you some insights on how to craft dialogue that will not only sound realistic, but be relevant to your story.
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Dialogue - that is, well written dialogue in fiction - is one of the hardest things to master. That's because dialogue in fiction is not really people talking to each other. It is conversation with drama that also needs to move the plot of the story while giving the reader insight into the inner workings of your characters. Sounds like a lot? It is. Join award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake as he gives you some insights on how to craft dialogue that will not only sound realistic, but be relevant to your story.
During this class, you will gain insight into how to put your story together in a compelling way that will have your readers turning page after page to see what happens next.
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Ever wonder how the really good books suck a reader in and hold their attention page after page. It's not the characters, nor the plot of the book. It is the way in which the author writes that separates their story from the pack. Join award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake as he presents his class "Don't Tell Your Story, Show It!" During this class, you will gain insight into how to put your story together in a compelling way that will have your readers turning page after page to see what happens next.
Explore the craft of creating truly epic scenes in your stories that capture the awe of epic vistas, the thundering power of an epic battle, or the emotional power of an epic victory.
Discover how fantasy fiction is evolving in the 21st century, what trends are happening, and where what worked well in the past fails to grab readers today.
Writer's Craft: Final Endings (Never to be Continued)
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Look at ways to wrap up a story that isn’t intended to be serialized or continue in other ways beyond the book the reader has in their hand. Discover the secrets to ending that story right.
We’ll teach you ways to write a story that is fun for the reader to read without losing the deeper message you want to convey. After all, smart messages and fun aren’t mutually exclusive.
It’s not enough to just create “believable” characters. In this session, I’ll show advanced techniques for building intriguing, sympathetic characters, and discuss character dynamics.
Gripping characters are a vital component of compelling fiction, so we’ll explore ways to create characters that grab hold of the reader’s imagination and never let go.
Every story has a hero, but we’ll show you how to make your character into more than just ‘the character who beats the bad guy’ and turn her into a person deserving of their heroic title.