Would you like to learn how to knit faster with less effort? We will learn how to knit Continental style.
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Would you like to learn how to knit faster with less effort? In this class, we will learn how to knit Continental style. Pics at my website. Must be comfortable with cast on, the knit stitch and purl stitch. All materials provided in class.
Ever look at a stitch pattern & wonder how to do it? We will work through slip stitch, easy lace, & other wonderful stitches.
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Ever look at a stitch pattern and wonder how to do it? In this class we will work through slip stitch, easy lace and other wonderful stitches. Must be comfortable with the knit and purl stitches.
Ever look at a stitch pattern and wonder how to do it? We will work through slip stitch, easy lace, & other wonderful stitches.
Description:
Ever look at a stitch pattern and wonder how to do it? In this class we will work through slip stitch, easy lace and other wonderful stitches. Must be comfortable with the knit and purl stitches.
Mastering Fiction: Brainstorming Your Way to a Breakout Novel
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In this seminar, learn techniques that can help you generate your Big Idea from the start, which will help to guide you to writing a novel that will stand out from the crowd.
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Novels begin with an idea, and the bigger the idea, the more likely you are to attract the notice of agents, editors, and readers. In this seminar, learn techniques that can help you generate your Big Idea from the start, which will help to guide you to writing a novel that will stand out from the crowd.
Mastering Fiction: Connective Tissue—Advanced Techniques to Create Stories that Resonate
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Learn how to use viewpoint to strengthen the story as a whole, taking a story that feels loose and directionless and working with the material that’s already there to make it strong and vibrant.
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In writing, there are many different techniques that are rarely discussed together. Foreshadowing, parallel threads, theme, tone, character building, and more. In this seminar, these topics are discussed from the viewpoint of strengthening the story as a whole, taking a story that feels loose and directionless and working with the material that's already there to make it strong and vibrant.
Mastering Fiction: It's All Entertainment—Crafting Stories that are a Blast to Read
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In this seminar, learn about the entertainment value of writing, and the techniques you can use to maximize each page for a more engrossing, emotional, page-turning read.
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It's easy while writing to focus on the mechanics of writing and forget that fiction is a form of entertainment. Writers can become lost in topics of theme, characterization, plotting, or even the line-by-line writing, while forgetting to accentuate the things that make people want to read books in the first place. This seminar discusses the entertainment value of writing, and the techniques you can use to maximize each page for a more engrossing, emotional, page-turning read.
Mastering Fiction: Pattern Recognition—Challenging Your Readers to Create Stories that Compel
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In this seminar, learn how to draw your reader in by challenging their expectations, and take character building, plot progression, plot twists and setbacks, and world building to the next level.
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The ability to recognize patterns is a basic human trait. We use it over and over again in our fiction. This seminar discusses how to use patterns to your benefit by both setting and breaking expectations. Learn how to draw your reader in by challenging their expectations, and take character building, plot progression, plot twists and setbacks, and world building to the next level.
Mastering Fiction: Plotting Techniques of the Professional Writer
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In this seminar you’ll learn about plotting techniques, from basic structural concepts, initial plotting and eventual refinement, how to break writer’s block and how to avoid it in the first place.
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Plotting is one of the more difficult disciplines to master in writing. Some writers have an innate sense of what makes a story work, but most writers, particularly those early in their apprenticeships, will benefit from plotting. This seminar focuses on various plotting techniques, from basic structural concepts, initial plotting and eventual refinement, how to break the dreaded writer’s block and how to avoid it in the first place.