tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4122976541978938042024-02-07T15:00:33.999+10:00Lacey DevlinLacey Devlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05716109142743069204noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412297654197893804.post-82538097112741728162013-11-01T16:11:00.002+10:002013-11-01T16:12:53.190+10:00NaNoWriMo 2013 & Submission Call<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's NaNoWriMo time again! If you don't know what NaNoWriMo is, it's National Novel Writing Month. The goal is fifty thousand words in 30 days, which is about 1667 words per day. Doable, right? And it's not too late to join in the fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The official site is <a href="http://nanowrimo.org/">http://nanowrimo.org/</a>, and you can buddy me at <a href="http://nanowrimo.org/participants/lacey-devlin">http://nanowrimo.org/participants/lacey-devlin</a>. Warning: I buddy back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot of writer's forums do their own NaNoWriMo, so if you're interested in a particular publisher, check out their website. This year I signed up for the Entangled Publishing SmackDown, which is so much fun, unfortunately it's closed for registration now, but you can still sign up for its sister NaNoWriMo that is also featured on the <a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/">Savvy Authors</a> website <a href="https://ce.savvyauthors.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventId=1895">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, you can get some awesome word tracker spreadsheets for NaNoWriMo 2013, including Dean Winchester and Chris Hemsworth themes, at Svenja Liv's blog <a href="http://spreadsheets/">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because I'm in Australia, it's already day one of NaNoWriMo and instead of adding words to my novel I've been putting together a sub for the <em>What Happens in Vegas Audition</em>. Do you think that gets me a pass? If you'd like to audition too and fancy being published between Jan and July of 2014 check out the details <a href="https://entangledpublishing.submittable.com/submit/24899">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The elves have told me there are some great writing opportunities coming up, so consider this the first wave. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With as little as 1,000 words you can win the opportunity to pitch your manuscript to a living, breathing editor at <a href="http://www.harlequin.com/">Harlequin</a>. That's better than a punch in the face, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Entries close March 24 & you can find information on the opportunity </span><a href="http://www.iheartpresents.com/2013/03/presents-needs-you-online-pitch-starts-today/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://community.harlequin.com/showthread.php/1126-Harlequin-Presents-Needs-YOU!"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Also, if you're a YA writer, keep an eye on Liz Pelletier's <a href="http://www.martinisandmanuscripts.com/">blog</a>, for her next open call for a spec writer for <a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/">Entangled Publishing</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you've been doing fanastically well since I last posted, and congratulations to anyone who has entered the </span><a href="http://www.soyouthinkyoucanwrite.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So You Think You Can Write</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> competition!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There have been a few sneaky calls for submissions and writing opportunities over the past week that you may have missed. Here's the list:</span><br />
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We'd love to read some amazing cowboy Brazens! Bonus points for series potential. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23nanowrimo">#nanowrimo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23amwriting">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23submissions">#submissions</a><br />
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Halloween 2013 call for submissions unveiled! Need ideas? We've got those, too! <a href="http://t.co/r930yg9i" title="http://bit.ly/Ks6FJT">bit.ly/Ks6FJT</a><br />
— Brazen Books (@BrazenBooks) <a data-datetime="2012-10-01T16:14:06+00:00" href="https://twitter.com/BrazenBooks/status/252803586440962048">October 1, 2012</a></blockquote>
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If you're not quite ready for Halloween yet, write a Valentine's Day @<a href="https://twitter.com/brazenbooks">brazenbooks</a> & send in the full by November 25th! <a href="http://t.co/r930yg9i" title="http://bit.ly/Ks6FJT">bit.ly/Ks6FJT</a><br />
— Brazen Books (@BrazenBooks) <a data-datetime="2012-10-01T16:34:42+00:00" href="https://twitter.com/BrazenBooks/status/252808768646156289">October 1, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can find the link from the previous tweet </span><a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/submission-information/brazen-submission-guidelines/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and Entangled's official call </span><a href="http://www.entangledinromance.com/2012/09/05/call-for-submissions-brazen-valentines-day/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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Writers! Bliss is looking for stories that revolve around the Fourth of July. Got just the thing? Query us at: <a href="http://t.co/tgXcXX5Q" title="http://bit.ly/JbBBN6">bit.ly/JbBBN6</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can find the link from the previous tweet </span><a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/submission-information/bliss-submission-guidelines/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to </span><a href="http://autumnmacarthur.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Autumn McArthur</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for the heads up about </span><a href="http://worldweaverpress.com/submissions/calls-for-anthologies/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> call for winter holiday romance anthlogies with a speculative element by </span><a href="http://worldweaverpress.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">World Weaver Press</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Also, <a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/">Savvy Authors</a> is hosting an <a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/">Entangled Publishing</a> Smack Down where editors from each of the lines are giving up their time <strong>FREE</strong> to tutor you. You can register and check for availabe places <a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/eventlist.php">here</a>, but there is more information about requirements & prep <a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/content.php?2308-Savvy-Authors-NaNo-Boot-Camp-Entangled-Smack-Down!">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If the Smack Down isn't for you, <a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/">Savvy Authors</a> is also running a NaNoWriMo boot camp <a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1732">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally, don't forget that you can help make a publication dream come true by voting for a </span><a href="http://www.soyouthinkyoucanwrite.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So You Think You Can Write</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> entry. You get one vote every day.</span></div>
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Lacey Devlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05716109142743069204noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412297654197893804.post-33732724922847667522012-08-01T17:55:00.002+10:002013-11-01T14:44:42.178+10:00Win a Full Manuscript Request<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Would you like to win a full manuscript request from <a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/">Entangled Publishing</a> editor Adrien-Luc Sanders? There are 11 spots left. All the details are <a href="http://kowloonbynight.com/2012/07/30/contest-pimp-my-hook/">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been out sick but I'm hoping to get back into blogland in the next couple of weeks. Today I'm posting at the Minxes of Romance site on writing as a sport and upcoming opportunities to get your foot in the publishing door. Come and let me know what you've been up to </span><a href="http://www.minxesofromance.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/writing-is-sport.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope your writing is going fabulously! </span><a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Entangled</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> hit the web with a callout for holiday themed subs, and you can hit them back if you want to. There's a lot of opportunities out there at the moment so keep your eyes peeled. Here's a list of everything that's current:</span></div>
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<span id="goog_362242251"></span><a href="http://www.entangledinromance.com/2012/05/13/call-for-submissions-christmas-flirts-new-years-ever-afters/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Entangled Publishing: New Years Ever Afters</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (Closes: 10th June 2012)<span id="goog_362242252"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's still a couple of weeks left before I'll be back to my usual blogging schedule, but thank you all so much for bearing with me :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just a quick post to let you all know about the latest call for submissions from <a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/">Entangled Publishing</a>. If you're interested make sure you click the link, because I've only included the bare bones:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1. <strong>When in Rome...:</strong> Entangled Publishing seeks submissions for a 2012 Greek/Romance collection on the Ever After line. Submissions must:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">2. <strong>Guilty Pleasures:</strong> Entangled Publishing seeks submissions for a 2012 Guilty Pleasures collection on the Flirt line. Submissions must:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Be 10,000 to 15,000 words in length.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Focus on the main characters' guilty pleasures/secret indulgences as a key element in their romance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I can't wait to get my hands on a seriously hot gladiator. Are you going to submit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm over at the Minxes today, talking about <a href="http://www.minxesofromance.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/whats-your-favorite-trope.html">romance tropes</a>: the ones we love, the ones we hate and the ones we're totally addicted to. Come and say hi!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Firstly, <strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">CONGRATULATIONS</span></strong> to one of my fabulous critque partners, </span><a href="http://www.mayabauthor.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maya Blake</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, who just received <strong>THE CALL</strong>. She's the latest addition to the Harlequin Presents line and I can't wait to see her first book on the shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. </span><a href="http://community.harlequin.com/showthread.php/157-Meet-the-Harlequin-Romance-Editorial-Team!-Fast-track-Submission!"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harlequin Romance Fast-Track</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">: You'll hear back on the results of your submission in <strong>ONE</strong> month. You've got to love that. All you need is a first chapter, synopsis and query letter. This one closes April 23rd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. </span><a href="http://community.harlequin.com/showthread.php/195-Editor-Pitch-Challenge-Harlequin-Special-Edition"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harlequin Special Edition Editor Pitch Challenge</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">: All you need is a one-page synopsis of your manuscript. Closes April 23rd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. </span><a href="http://community.harlequin.com/showthread.php/189-Editor-Pitch-Challenge-Harlequin-Historical-Undone"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harlequin Historical Undone Editor Pitch Challenge</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">: This one's a pitch with a twist. Sell your book with a 300 word max extract and a back cover blurb (80-100 words). Closes May 3rd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">4. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=412297654197893804#editor/target=post;postID=6304644437835985077">Harlequin Medical Fast-Track</a>: You'll hear back in <strong>LESS</strong> than one month. You'll need a query letter, synopsis and first chapter. It opens June 1 and closes June 7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are there any other writing contests/challenges out there at the moment? Are you entering any of the contests? I'd love to know!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, I'm excited to welcome guest blogger, Harlequin Medical author, Louisa George! It seems like it was just yesterday that I was reading about Louisa's good news on the forums and now her debut has been released! Welcome Louisa!</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijrj7uURplrp5c1TrVv3CDxZBDPqq80X2LQ6LvcNfC0fjhouB7Oq46aPzXyYd8TMdTHZ8ZFU9u-A7X2XUAyekNkfCyf6aMlz_yKUyjRQh7okm-pMidfXT4x2wI3-TJGs_OeDwR635ScEE/s1600/Louise+publicity+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijrj7uURplrp5c1TrVv3CDxZBDPqq80X2LQ6LvcNfC0fjhouB7Oq46aPzXyYd8TMdTHZ8ZFU9u-A7X2XUAyekNkfCyf6aMlz_yKUyjRQh7okm-pMidfXT4x2wI3-TJGs_OeDwR635ScEE/s1600/Louise+publicity+photo.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m a self-confessed workshop junkie. I’ve
been known to sign up for three online courses in a month, done back-to-back international
conferences (with the same speakers!!), attended face-to-face, online, month
long,</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and weekend courses…all in the name of honing my
craft (okay, and a little bit of procrastination too). And don’t even ask me
about the number of craft books I own….</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By far and away the most stand-out workshop
I’ve ever attended was by the amazing Margie Lawson, a few years ago, at Romance
Writers of New Zealand annual conference. That woman is a dynamo! </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know, some
workshops you kind of go…yadda, yadda, okay, whatever?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not at Margie’s. Not for me. Margie was
talking about editing, she has a system called EDITS, she also talked about body
language and how to empower emotion. Something clicked…her system can be
applied to anyone’s work. There’s a check-list to improve scenes, actual ways
of powering up my language and editing my words…making me a better writer.
Perhaps it’s the methodical part of my brain (I have a methodical part? Who
knew?) rejoicing at the concept of a system, or just Margie’s infectious
enthusiasm and countless examples of stellar writing, but after attending her
workshop my writing improved immeasurably. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Top Five Margie Aha Moments: (it was hard to
whittle down to five)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love this idea- find the
most important word of a sentence and END the sentence with it. This adds
strength, leaves the reader with a punch. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using words to describe
the setting can echo/highlight the action/emotion in the scene. Eg: Cruel wind,
barren land etc- although describing setting is adding layers and punch to the
emotions of an infertile woman.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Anaphora </span></b><span lang="EN-US">- repeating a word at the
beginning of three sentences. The sentences are all in a row. Adds power and
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loud and listen to the rhythm. Cadence is made up of a mix of short and long
sentences. I liken cadence to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">music</i>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always check every sentence,
every word and see how you can add power or clarity, tighten, lose cliché’s, use
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her teaching commitments and her new Writing Academy. And the best part- if you
don’t get a chance to attend one of her workshops in person, she sells the
lecture packages as downloads too!</span></span></div>
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– it’s a constant hurt, until she meets sinfully sexy single dad Dr Luke
McKenzie and his gorgeous little girl. Luke’s intoxicating kisses and his
daughter’s adoring hugs have Jessie longing for the impossible. But she's a
temporary locum, the clock’s ticking – and there’s only a month to make all her
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born and brought up in Yorkshire, England. And yes, many hours were spent on
the brooding, bleak Yorkshire Moors dreaming of Heathcliff and other dark,
tortured heroes! I read avidly from a young age, and it seemed a natural
extension that I would pen my own stories and poems (the early ones are locked
away in a drawer where they should stay for eternity!).</span></span></div>
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marriage, two kids and well.... life took over and writing was put aside as a
lofty dream.</span></span></span></span></div>
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feed our passion for travel. It was a place we had never visited and knew
no-one - what a thrill! We soon felt very much at home. It is a wonderful place
to bring up children.... and to follow your dreams.</span></span></span></span></div>
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began to get strings of poetry writing itself in my head, then story ideas
would suddenly formulate out of nowhere, characters were telling me their
stories and demanding I wrote them! I decided I either needed to visit a doctor
or get some therapy! In the end I did neither, but instead I enrolled in an
evening class in Creative Writing and have been writing poetry and stories in
snatched moments of spare time ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAwCNzznkL9MAw8WKJKwlNL8ZWy8DHyoAc7-0so9pePLvf0ze7er62G07eJxcSOsrrBPE8ezcrgpabpTQitmY0SuSWNNPYXurcHvHn8RV-OeRDPRZaZI76xcflUWijawjO94iRp6D6CU/s1600/Author.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAwCNzznkL9MAw8WKJKwlNL8ZWy8DHyoAc7-0so9pePLvf0ze7er62G07eJxcSOsrrBPE8ezcrgpabpTQitmY0SuSWNNPYXurcHvHn8RV-OeRDPRZaZI76xcflUWijawjO94iRp6D6CU/s200/Author.jpg" width="195" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have
always had a thing for James Bond. I remember going to see one of the Timothy
Dalton movies with friends from school and being all in a swoon over Bond’s
dashing hero persona.</span></span><br />
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Dalton isn’t my favourite Bond. I know many people go for Sean Connery and I
can certainly see the appeal there! But I grew up with Roger Moore and when I
think of James Bond, his is the face that most quickly comes to mind.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that,
of course, is without considering the latest incarnation of James Bond – Daniel
Craig. Hang on, wait a moment for me to clean the drool from my keyboard …
there, that’s better. </span></span></div>
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been a more swoon-worthy hero on movie screens in recent years? And why is he so
appealing? One of the reasons, I think, is that this ‘modern’ version of James
Bond isn’t invulnerable. He hurts. He struggles with his tasks and his values.
He falls in love and has his heart broken. These are not the traits of the 70s
and 80s James Bond that I grew up with. </span></span></div>
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that’s why Daniel Craig’s Bond is so affecting. We love our heroes to have some
depth – some inner conflict and struggle. That all makes his ultimate triumph
so much more rewarding – we know that it has come at some cost. </span></span></div>
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for me, what makes for memorable romance novel heroes. Heroes who have to
overcome their own emotional, physical and (sometimes) moral barriers in order
to find completeness and happiness. It makes the HEA so much more rewarding
when we know they’ve had to work hard to find it. </span></span></div>
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novel, it is my heroine, Cassie, who has the most significant obstacles to
overcome. But my hero, Ronan, isn’t just having a plain-sailing time of it
either. He’s trying to work out his place in the world and struggling with the
deception he’s feels he has no choice but to see through. For me this made him
more ‘real’ and made me fall in love with him all over again each time he
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consistent. Historical research and writing can seem daunting at first, but can
be a rewarding experience with the right tools and knowledge. This course will
teach you: where to find the right historical resources; how to cull essential
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author considering self-publishing? This workshop will look closely at
self-publishing distribution channels from what kind of file you will need to
upload your eBook to various options you have in creating the files. We will
also discuss all the various platforms such as Kindle, Nook, iBooks and
Smashwords and what are the best strategies to getting your book up for sale.
We will discuss doing it yourself, outsourcing and team-building options.
Authors have more options today than ever before, but the process can be
overwhelming. While this is not a step-by-step technical class, the workshop is
designed to give you enough information to make informed decisions on how to
get your eBook on all formats possible.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.frwriters.org/workshops.html">Principles of Good Website Design for Writers</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Catherine Chant</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 1-13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">At
the end of this workshop you will have a better understanding of what goes into
making your author website more appealing and inviting to a visitor and thus
more effective for promoting you and your work. …</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses/detail/2-writing/23-april-writing-body-language-and-dialogue-cues-like-a-psychologist">Writing Body Language and Dialogue Cues Like a Psychologist</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<strong>I</strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>nstructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Margie Lawson</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 1-27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Learn how to write body language and dialogue cues from a kinesics
specialist. No more clichéd, trite, and overused facial expressions.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.writersonlineclasses.com/?page_id=812">Making People Disappear</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Frank Ahearn</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 1-30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US">People disappear for many reasons, some to avoid government
intrusion, better tax structures, to leave a past behind or avoid danger –
obviously there is a common thread to find independence from a situation. Frank
Ahearn, an expert on the fine art of disappearance, offers fiction writers his
tricks and tips on creating credible characters and scenarios that disappear or
how to find them. …</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.writersonlineclasses.com/?page_id=812">Writing Kick-Butt Action Adventure</a></strong> </span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Linnea Sinclair</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 1-30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<strong>C</strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>ourse Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Pow! Bam! Thud! Fun stuff for comic strips but potentially
cartoonish when it comes to commercial genre fiction. Yet today‘s
readers—raised on explosive movies and violent video games—often crave the same
kind of excitement in a book. So how can a writer deliver action that feels
real? Learn how to perfect your techniques with former private detective (yeah,
she really did carry a badge and a gun for ten years) and award-winning science
fiction romance author Linnea Sinclair…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=714">Knowing Which Way To Turn Worldbuilding For The Mystery Or Suspense Tale</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beth Daniels</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-8, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> …</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">we’ll concentrate on
building whatever community you need, be it a neighborhood or precinct in a
metropolis or a cozy, comfy small town in the middle of next-to-no-where. There
will be one CHALLENGE – and that’s to create the place where your characters
live, work, love…and, oh yeah, solve crimes in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=906">Are You a Writer or a Story Teller?</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Tracy Wolff<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-15, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Are You A Writer or A Storyteller? starts with a quiz to help determine
which one is your strong suit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we
move on to a discussion strengths and weaknesses of writing and story telling,
along with strategies to exploit your own strengths and bolster your weaknesses
to help make you the best writer and storyteller you can be.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.writersonlineclasses.com/?page_id=812">The Contest Diva’s Guide/Writing Contests</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Lois Winston</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-16, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US">… Lois will discuss the various types of writing contests and how to
determine which contests are best to enter, based on the writer’s goals and
expectations. She will cover everything from the financial to the emotional.
From the need for a dynamic opening sentence to the chapter ending hook. From
scores and feedback (or lack of it) to staying organized. From contest
complaints to contest etiquette. From volunteering to judge as a way to advance
your career to constructing a voodoo doll of that clueless judge who kept you
from finaling…Is she kidding? You’ll have to sign up for the workshop to find
out.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=944">Theme and Story Question</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Virna DePaul</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-22, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Theme is the underlying message or meaning of your story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Story question is the driving force that
unveils the message to your reader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both
act not only as a jumping off point for your story but as a tether and
sometimes a lifeline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They provide the
answer for “why” things happen in the story, but sometimes they can also
provide the “how.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words,
knowing your theme and story question can actually help you brainstorm scenes
when your muse decides to take a nap. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=364">Beyond Fangs: Creating New & Interesting Paranormal Characters</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Deborah Blake</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Want to write a paranormal romance or urban fantasy, but don’t want to
be just another Vamp in the crowd? Yearning to create a completely original
paranormal character, but don’t know where to start? Author Deborah Blake moves
beyond Vampires to delve into a wide range of paranormal folk who don’t need to
hide from the sun. From Witches to Weres, Fae to Phantasms, this class will
explore the alternatives to over-used supernatural stereotypes and help you to
create your own unique paranormal character. The class will include a
discussion of current trends, suggested reading, hints for character building,
and an overview of authors who have successfully gone beyond the traditional.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.writeruniv.com/april_12_Kantra.htm">Casting Your Characters</a></strong></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Virginia Kantra</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US">The casting director's responsibility is to
find actors who are right for the roles of a particular production. What
characters does your story require? What traits do they need? How do you
describe them, reveal them, create chemistry between them? Award-winning author
Virginia Kantra discusses how to use the requirements of different character
roles--heroes, heroines, antagonists and secondary characters--to build a
strong, appealing cast and focus your story.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses/detail/2-writing/33-april-fab-30-advanced-deep-editing-a-master-class-">Fab 30: Advanced Deep Editing, A Master Class</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Margie Lawson</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description: </strong>Three prerequisites. Do you want to dig deep into deep editing? Do you want to take an advanced class with all Margie Grads? Do you want Margie's Deep Edit Analysis for any 30 pages of your WIP? If so, this squeal-it's-a-deal class is for you!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.yosemiteromancewriters.com/id33.html">Killer Openings</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Alexa Bourne</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Many people browse through a book store, pull a book
of the shelf and read the first page. They decide right then, based on the 1st
line, 1st paragraphs and 1st page, whether or not they'll buy the book. Killer
Openings dissects those all-important elements. Students study good and bad openings
and discuss why they do or don't work. they can also submit their own opening
lines/paragraphs/pages and receive a critique.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://starrwa.org/on-line-workshops/">Let Conflict Tell Your Story</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Susan Meier</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Good
books are about people. Great books are about people in trouble. Not just
external trouble, but real, gut wrenching, soul hurting trouble. Most of us can
give our characters believable external struggles and even get them beyond
those struggles, but what about that internal struggle? Can a leopard really
change his or her spots? And if so how? What do editors and agents mean when
they say your character has to grow? Learn the basis for ever internal struggle
and how to achieve believable character growth that can carry your whole story
and give your characters a real happy ending.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses/detail/2-writing/42-april-story-structure-safari">Story Structure Safari</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Lisa Miller</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Beautiful words and exciting scenes aren’t enough to propel the
reader through a novel. Stories need structure, a plan, a focus from beginning
to end. Story Structure Safari will guide you through the dense jungle of
information about story. Our trek will include excursions into the lands of
Story Structure and Transformational Character Arcs and Plot.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=700">Character Building with Jane Austen</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Megan Applegate</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> …</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This four-week course will
delve deep into Austen’s methods of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>characterization and how to apply them to your own writing—the many
tiers of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a heroine, the depths and drive
behind heroes. It will explore crisis and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>conflict as a character and the methods behind successfully pitting
your<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>characters against the “setting”
for maximum conflict and goal realization.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1131">Cop Characters: How To Make Them Click and What Makes Them Tick</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jaye Roycraft</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Romantic suspense, mysteries, urban fantasies – these are just a few of
the genres that might require an author to use a cop or an ex-cop as either the
protagonist or an important secondary character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning the inner workings of a police department
can be a challenge for any writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
both an author and a female who spent eight years with a big-city police
department, I can share an insider’s look into the world of a cop – the
emotions and attitudes of a typical street cop as well as procedures, training,
guns and ammo, and “copspeak” – that mysterious language comprised of codes and
cop slang...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=887">Developing an Active Voice for Emotional Impact</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kat Duncan</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Learn exactly how to use active voice to maximize the impact of your
writing style. Kat will show you how to identify and fix passive sentences and
explain when you should leave them alone and why. Kat will provide plenty of
well-explained examples of how to develop an engaging active voice and use it
to build tension and control pacing. Bonus: Learn simple techniques to design
figurative language and action-emotion word combinations that will liven up
your manuscript. Includes optional exercises.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1488">Ebook and Digital Marketing – Is It for Me?</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Suzanne Rock</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Digital books are becoming more and more popular. Devices such as the
Kindle, iPAD and Nook have brought ebooks into the limelight and provided many
new and exciting publishing opportunities for writers. Despite this, many are
still confused about the epublishing process. This course is for beginners who
want to learn more about digital publishing and determine if it's a good fit
for them...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=968">Exchanging Elements: Turn Your Fan Fic Into A Sellable Story</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beth Daniels</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Are you spinning tales about members of the Skywalker-Solo family, or
the crew as on the Starship Enterprise, or something featuring a brilliant
alien who travels the universe and time in a blue box? Are you telling tales in
a TV series’ world that went off the air decades ago? If so, these stories can
be edited, recreated, and turned into something that is clearly of your own
creation, not spun off from another’s, and morphed into something that can snag
an editor’s interest. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=898">Finding Your Voice</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Misa Ramirez</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Finding your voice is perhaps one of the most difficult things a writer
must do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not as if you’ve lost it
and it’s hiding under the bed, waiting to be rediscovered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you can’t copy someone else’s. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=962">From Fanfiction to Fantastic Fiction</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Anna Bowling</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Learn to use fan fiction techniques to create original stories and
characters without having to look over your shoulder for copyright lawyers. Let
favorite movies, television or music inspire your own creativity, put your own
spin on archetypes and themes we all know and love and avoid the dreaded Mary
Sue along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The name of the game
is inspiration, not imitation. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1322">Marketing Basics</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Karina Fabian</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We'll examine four basic marketing areas: Online relationships, Off-line
relationships, Press, and Platform. In week five, we'll put it together into a
marketing plan you can offer to publishers in a proposal or use for yourself on
your contracted book.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=991">The Short Story – From Idea to Draft in 30 Days</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">June Diehl</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This workshop will cover the following: the unique characteristics of
the short story, craft elements, writing scenes, story beginnings, middle, and
ending, writing the draft, making plans for your revision, markets for your
short story, and how to submit. At the end of 30 days you will have a drafted
story with feedback and a plan for making your revisions.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1053">Walking the Tightrope – How to Juggle Family, Career, Writing and Life in General andKeep your Creativity and Sanity Intact</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mary O’Gara</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Multi-tasking is your strength-when it doesn't overwhelm you. So how
many goals can you handle without stressing out? And how do you know what to do
next and what not to do at all? ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses/detail/2-writing/3-april-from-madness-to-methodoscar-worthy-characters">From Madness to Method: Oscar Worthy Characters</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Tiffany Lawson Inman</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2-30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US">No matter where you are in the writing process – this class will
crack open your psyche to reveal dynamic character, motivation, and reaction,
showing you how to activate emotion you never knew you had.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1017">Corsets, Goggles and Airships, Oh My!</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beth Daniels</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 2- May 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> …</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This 4-Week workshop tells how by guiding participants through the doors
of history and on an excursion into the world of clockwork mechanics as well as
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">highlighting the various elements that make up Steampunk. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1215445008">T</a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://crw-rwa.ning.com/page/workshops-1#april2">he Regency Woman</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Nancy Mayer</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 4-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> The Regency woman. She was a woman of stern morals and little laughter. A governess who didn't feel oppressed and a governess who did. She owned her own business. She was an author, a poet, a scientist, a runaway. She lived a discreet and quiet life and she was notorious. She was the faithful wife and the mother of many children, or a divorced woman who had to give up her children to escape her husband. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses/detail/2-writing/40-april-the-dreaded-blog-why-the-heck-do-you-need-oneand-what-the-heck-do-you-write">The Dreaded Blog: Why the Heck Do You Need One – and What The Heck Do You Write</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Tamela Buhrke</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 5-30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A publisher will expect you to have a blog, but you shudder at the very
idea. Who are you to blog? Maybe you don’t even have a book out yet. What value
could you offer? Where can you find the time? And what will you write that will
make even the slightest difference in the sales of your book or the process of
being published?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1441">The Four Point Critique: Introduction to making your critiques positive,constructive, specific and honest</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Teresa Bodwell</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 9-14, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This workshop will give you a head start on the critiquing process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's designed for beginning critiquers and
will lead into the full workshop beginning March 5th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Participants in this workshop will receive a
critique on their first 15 pages from the instructor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1126">Conflict – How to Build it, Sustain It & Resolve It</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jaye Roycraft</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 9-15, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Many people go through life thinking of conflict as a bad thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not only is conflict unavoidable, it’s a
necessary part of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s what
challenges us and keeps us going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Conflict isn’t easy, but in the end, it can help us grow and become
better people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How we deal with the
conflicts in our lives is what defines us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are we strong individuals who are able to overcome obstacles and grow, or
do we fall short and fail?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In real life,
it’s usually a case of a little of both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The same is true of our fictional characters. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=833">One Story, Many Voices</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Devon Ellington</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 9-29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The purpose of this workshop is to learn how to work with a base story,
and, using the elements of different genres, rework it from genre to genre. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=501">Feng Shui for Characters</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Raquel Rodriguez</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 9-May 6, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">You've heard it for writers, businesses and homes, now you can Feng Shui
your characters!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn traditional
concepts and the basis of Feng Shui and utilize techniques I have developed to
give added depth and dimension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Solve
character problems and gain new insight into what makes them tick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This workshop teaches all about color
psychology, item placement, and how to translate a Feng Shui "fix" to
improve your characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add action,
adventure, intrigue or desire into your story with easy remedies, and put your
protagonist (or antagonist) on the proper path to their goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1398">Creating the Perfect Predator</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">LD Madison</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 9-May 7, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The four-week workshop is for authors at all levels of writing
experience. There are no specific ‘prerequisites’ other than an open-mind, and
a desire to create spine-chilling, believable predators. The workshop is meant
to be an overview of criminals and predators – not just killers. It will
include the psychology of rapists, arsonists, cult leaders and pedophiles – as
well as a strategy for the hero/heroine to find and catch the villain. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1452">CORE CLASS: Six Core Pack for the Beginning Author (Six Core Pack = Save 10%)</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">LD Madison</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 9-October 18, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This is a six month long class and at the end the participants should
have a book finished or close to being finished. It will also include lectures
on the current state of the publishing industry and how to look for an agent or
pursue a contract with a publishing house. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=960">Urban Fantasy: more tramp for your vamp, more bang for your fang</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Pat Hauldren</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 16-May 6, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Fantasy, and especially Urban Fantasy, are hot genres on today's market.
In this class, we'll define Urban Fantasy, explore genre expectations and
tropes, the markets available and how each market expects different aspects of
the same genre. We'll also study the current publications in the genre,
including adult, YA, romance, and children's subgenres, and compare our own
manuscripts to these. Throughout the class, we'll work on improving our
manuscripts to meet market needs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1268">Ground Breaking – A Different Sort of Worldbuilding and Character Development</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Marcy Weydemuller</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 16-May 6, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The reality of our world, its emotional resonance and unique atmosphere,
will be found in the details. Either we see it though the familiarity and
ordinariness of our main character, or we see its strangeness through her
confusion or entrancement. So it’s important for us to know the details
ourselves. Just as we can walk around our homes in the dark, knowing exactly
where we are, so must our characters. What is real to them needs to be real to
us. This provides authentic atmosphere, tone and mood. But it doesn’t mean we
need to invent everything. In this four-week workshop we’ll break ground to
create our unique setting.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1054">Beginnings</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Christine Amsden</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 16-May 13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Before there was a story, there was a beginning, and that beginning had
to shine or there would be no story, or at least, no one to read it. We draw
people in with characters, intrigue, drama, humor, and above all, competent
writing. In this workshop, we will discuss where to begin a story and how to
reel the reader in with tantalizing details and an implicit promise of things
to come. There will be weekly writing assignments and peer review is expected.
This workshop is designed with beginners and intermediates in mind, but a grasp
of spelling and grammar is necessary.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1005">Blending Emotional Arcs and Conflict</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kat Duncan</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 16-May 13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This workshop explores the elements needed to show a character's
emotional arc from opening page to ending scene. You will learn techniques that
enable you to tug at a reader's heartstrings. How and when to launch into emotional
introspection and when not to. Blend emotion and story conflict and learn when
and how to emphasize each. Manage your characters' emotions by learning how to
manipulate your readers' emotions. Entice your readers to follow your
characters' emotional upheavals and revelations without giving readers a reason
to toss the book aside out of boredom or toss it in the trash out of anger. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=801">Finding Time to Write – Time Mangement for Writers</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Tricia Ballad</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 16-May 13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">addresses one of the most common complaints among writers of all levels:
the inability to find the time to sit down and write. This workshop will help
students address four areas of time management that are most relevant to
writers: setting concrete goals and breaking them down into discrete tasks,
finding time to accomplish those tasks, avoiding burnout, and how to get back
on track when things do not go as planned.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.occrwa.org/onlineclassApril12.html">Self Publishing</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Deborah Holland</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 16-May 13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Curious
about self-publishing? Do you want to become part of the recent wave of
self-published authors? Do you want to have more control over your books and
your career?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1349">Social Media for Writers</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Stacey O’Neale</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 16-May 13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Social media can be an aspiring authors best friend. If you know how to
use it - it can be helpful in attracting literary agents, publishers, and
readers to your work. But with all the available outlets out there, it's hard
to know where to concentrate. In this course, we're going to get down and dirty
with what's working, how much time to invest, what to do, and especially, what
not to do. This course is designed for aspiring authors as well as published
authors looking to connect with a larger audience. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1402">Tough Love for Authors</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Todd Stone</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 16-May 13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Writing not working?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not happy
with your progress?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Internal editor,
rejection letters, or writers block making you need a little help with your self-esteem
right now? How about some hugs? </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You ain't gettin' 'em here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Toss the tissues and put on your
grown-up-person clothes, 'cause it's time you got some no-nonsense, "this
is the way it is, now deal" advice from a professional communicator who
has seen the words for money game change over two decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What's hot in genres will change, what you
need to know to write the best novel and have the best writing career won't.
...</span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Connie Cox</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 23-May 20, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Connie writes because she's curious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She always wants to know 'and then what happened.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A natural seat-of-her-pants writer, Connie
knows first hand that lack of structure leads to illogical, unbelievable and
meandering storylines that have readers scratching their heads and looking for
the No-Doze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pantsers tend to write themselves
in the corner and end up scrapping pages and pages of work, or even the whole
manuscript. ...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1006">Write What You Know</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kat Duncan</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 23-May 20, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">You've heard the old adage "write what you know". But what if
you're a housewife with no work experience and your most recent hobby is
folding laundry? You know more than you think. You may know how to solve tricky
problems, soothe ruffled feathers, keep law and order, monitor sick kids, sympathize
over the loss of a pet, or organize a mob of unruly kids at a party. You have
goals and aspirations, even if they are just to get through the next holiday
dinner. Kat will help you dig deep into your personal skills and pull out every
tool you have that can be used in your writing. Not only that, but Kat will
help you see how those skills could be applied to every fiction genre from
sweet inspirationals to erotic sci-fi. Published examples, plus short exercises
and templates support your writing goals for the future.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1073">An Editor’s Wish List</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kathy Cottrell</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 30-May 13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Do you want to know what an editor really wants?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Join Kathy Cottrell, Senior Editor for the
Wild Rose Press, as she shares her years of experience working in the trenches
with both fledgling and experienced authors and explains how to turn an
ordinary submission into something that brings an editor up out of her chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1323">Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Making the Most of Your Writing and Research</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Karina Fabian</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 30-May 13, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Some of the most successful article writers understand how to use their
ideas and research time effectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Using her own experience as a freelance writer and her research, Karina
Fabian will present suggestions on how to make the most of the background work
you do.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1370">Setting as Character</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Devon Ellington</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 30-May 27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">How do you create a convincing setting?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whether you’re setting your story in a real location or a fantastical
one, it’s the same on the page as in life:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Location, location, location!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Spend a month with Devon Ellington learning how to craft believable
settings as compelling as your characters in both naturalistic and fantastic
ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be short term
assignments and long-term assignments over the term of the course, so be
prepared to work on more than one project at a time. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=900">The Dark Hero</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Misa Ramirez</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> April 30-May 27, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Who can resist the dark hero? He is brooding, with a dark soul, is
impossibly damaged, struggles, and often teeters on the edge of being a
villain. How do we write this attractive character without making him
insensitive and cold?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a tall order,
but when done well, the dark hero is irresistible. ...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=805">Writing Your Memoirs</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Alice Osborn</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a writer or an
aspiring author, at one time or another, it is inevitable you WILL be asked to
revise your book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author letter,
also known as the revision letter from your publisher can be as simple as a few
tweaks to the story, or a six page, single-spaced breakdown of each and every
aspect of your story that needs reworking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A revision letter can knock the wind out of the author, and nothing less
than determination is required to successfully interpret and implement a
particularly troublesome revision letter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A writer must have faith in their ability to figure out what the editor
is asking, agree or disagree with it, fix what can be fixed, and discuss
differences-in-vision for the story with a level head and a clear plan.</span></span></div>
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from a practical standpoint with my medical slant.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think of revisions as major surgery on a patient (your manuscript) with a good
prognosis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You must be bold and daring
with your approach to cutting and changing scenes, and yet precise when
capturing the important emotional nuances and theme of the story. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revisions
mean to delete the prologue and the seduction scene because the editor
doesn’t feel they make the hero sympathetic enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revisions
mean to change up a sequence of events and/or move a scene around or
delete it if it causes a lag in story tension or pace.</span></span></div>
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mean to change a pivotal scene and have the heroine walk away instead of
the hero (even though that’s how you always imagined that scene from the
day you hatched the story) to give the book more emotional oomph. </span></span></div>
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mean to go through the entire manuscript and add emotion, tension, and
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revisions mean to somehow find a way to add a
pregnancy, a baby, or a marriage of convenience to your story if the <i><u><span style="background: white; color: blueviolet;">buying</span></u></i><span style="background: white; color: black;"> </span>editor thinks you should.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above all, revisions mean to be FLEXIBLE and do whatever it takes to make your
story a combination of your vision and what your agent or editor is looking
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Editors
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may think of ourselves as “Artistes,” but a quick reality check in today’s
market tells us we are writers for hire.</span></span></div>
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and think very carefully about what is being asked of you as the author,
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make or break the publishing deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
attitude plus skill at delivering what the editor or agent requests are the
key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Handle revisions with care.</span></span></b></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’d like to ask you to think outside the
box on your current work in progress or that manuscript you’ve just submitted
to an agent or editor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine and
choose an outrageous editor or agent request for your plot (a surprise
pregnancy, a secret child, a marriage of convenience, a change in profession
for either of your characters, deleting a secondary character – you catch my
drift).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How would you add it to the
story if an editor said they loved the book, but asked you to make the change
in order to publish it?</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKzMMGe10NBW26zzo0hk56rV1-tdrIAHSLMGBca2GXKiDBHsFRQMk06ohEUAksnX21geA_pMoCncA9NIsDUh3ykKpHilrhvaC47egEOwkVLHPAGe8CwETHRYDpqnIgdfRnqkGFmCDez30/s1600/Courting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKzMMGe10NBW26zzo0hk56rV1-tdrIAHSLMGBca2GXKiDBHsFRQMk06ohEUAksnX21geA_pMoCncA9NIsDUh3ykKpHilrhvaC47egEOwkVLHPAGe8CwETHRYDpqnIgdfRnqkGFmCDez30/s200/Courting.jpg" width="125" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Lynne Marshall</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"> writes contemporary and Medical Romance for Harlequin
and The Wild Rose Press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first book
in the Grady family trilogy, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Courting-Favorite-Nurse-Harlequin-Special/dp/0373656602/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323388817&sr=1-1"><span style="color: #213abb;">Courting
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elements, from The Wild Rose Press.</span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://lynnemarshall.com/"><span style="color: #213abb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Website </span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/LynneMarshall.Page"><span style="color: #213abb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.romancewiki.com/Lynne_Marshall#On_The_Web"><span style="color: #213abb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RomanceWiki</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://rbpp-lm.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #213abb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Author
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that love was complicated. When she’d left her hometown, she thought she was
leaving her past heartbreak behind for good, as well. But practically the
moment she returned to care for her injured parents, she stumbled headlong into
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feelings for Annie when he was a teenager dating her best friend, and he
certainly couldn’t muffle the spark twisting between them now—even if memories
of the past kept threatening to push them apart. This time Jack wasn’t going to
let history repeat itself—he was going to show Annie that the two of them were
meant to be much more than best friends!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://rbpp-lm.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #213abb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>AN INDISCRETION</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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stretched to the limit, caring for an elderly relative while running a business
and maintaining a full-time medical practice at St. Stephen's Hospital--with no
time for a relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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leaves her money-hungry fiance at the altar and moves on to a new job at St.
Stephen's Hospital in Los Angeles. The next man in her life must love her, not
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has made Paul an unfulfilled man, and the resurrected redheaded crush from his
youth is driving him to distraction. Can their complicated past become
untangled by their newfound attraction--or will their love be doomed by
mistrust and long-held resentment?</span></span></span><br />
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note that all course descriptions are in blurb form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s often more information at the
official websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The March writing
workshops are listed in order of start date and length.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.whodareswinspublishing.com/WIF_Workshops.html">Conflict and Idea Course</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Bob Mayer</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Can you say what
your book is about in 25 words of less? This is essential to both writing a
tight book and then selling it. We'll discuss ways to find and state your
original idea so that you stay on course while writing the book. The original
idea will you excite those you tell it to when trying to sell it. Conflict
drives your story. Not only must conflict escalate throughout the entire novel,
every single scene must have conflict in it. The Conflict Box is an effective
technique for focusing your story on the protagonist, antagonist, their goals
and finding out if you have the necessary conflict lock. These two key concepts
can help you focus your writing and narrow your pitch.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.whodareswinspublishing.com/WIF_Workshops.html">Writing Mom’s: How to do it all course</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Natalie C. Markey</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March, 2012 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Plot, character
arc, transitions, climax, revise, rewrite, make that deadline, blog, check
social media sites, continued education, volunteer for local writing group,
read critique partners manuscript, research agents/publishers, read books
within your genre, read a craft book and network. These are ALL things that go
through writers' minds on any give day. But what if you had to add: Make
bottles, keep up with diaper/Gerber/ formula supplies, feed baby three times a
day plus bottle feedings, playtime, bathe baby, wipe up thrown sweet potatoes,
shower to get sweet potatoes out of your hair, more playtime, hope for a
naptime (for baby, you must write,) schedule playdates, read to baby, and hope
baby actually goes to bed at the designated time...</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://crw-rwa.ning.com/page/2012-onlineworkshops#march2">Selling to Woman’s World Magazine: Beyond the Basics, Part I</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kate Willoughby</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 27-March 23 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Course Description:</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Woman’s World, one of the last remaining periodicals to publish short
fiction, pays $800 for an 800 word romance story, and if you sell to them
there’s a good chance over a million people will read your story.<br />
Nice work if you can get it, right? Well, you can. My class, “Selling to
Woman’s World Magazine—Beyond the Basics, Part I,” will give you the tools you
need to break into this tough market.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 27-March 23 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Jumping into Twitter can be daunting task, even to those experienced
with other social media such as blogging and FaceBook. However, with my
workshop, I take the fear out of this process by breaking up theTwitterverse
into easy to manage chunks. This is a hands on workshop through which I will
participants through each lesson and have virutal classroom hours establish so
we can interact with each other real time via Twitter to aid in the learning
process.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 4 weeks this workshop looks at all things Victorian
and Edwardian: wardrobes, weapons, entertainments, songs, cant/slang,
inventions, science…well, a lot of what a writer needs to know about in
building their own Victorian or Edwardian world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Victorian and Edwardian are celebrated and warped, twisted, and mutated into an
alternative historical.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses/detail/2-writing/21-march-deep-editing-the-edits-system-rhetorical-devices-and-more">DeepEditing: The EDITS System, Rhetorical Devices, and More</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Margie Lawson</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 1-31, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">DEEP EDITING is for the
writer who wants to psychologically impact the subconscious of the reader. For
the writer who wants to learn fresh editing techniques. For the writer who
wants to edit for power! <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.writersonlineclasses.com/?page_id=735">Vampires & World Building</a></strong> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mario Acevedo</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<strong>D</strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>ates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 1-31, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Undead bloodsuckers have evolved from
monster, to empathetic villain, to outright revenant hero. No need to explain
the fascination with vampires, just explain the rules. And what are the rules?
You decide. Every novel begins with the suspension of disbelief and it’s up to
you to build a compelling world that fits your story, be it paranormal,
fantasy, or historical. What are the elements of world-building? The physical?
People and customs? What about magic? How much detail is needed? We’ll review
vampires and other supernatural creatures and use exercise prompts to study how
to use the elements of world-building.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/">Book in a Month</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kit Frazier</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 3-26, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The New York Times reported that 85% of
Americans think they’ll write a book this year, and that less than 1% will
actually get it done—beat the odds with Book in a Month, a step-by-step guided
process to getting that masterpiece on paper. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=713">Historical Paths: Recreating A Historical Setting Via Worldbuilding</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beth Daniels</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-11, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">...That’s what we’ll do in one short week: work out
a layout of our lands, our towns, our travels if need be. Figure out distances,
which way to turn to get where we’re going, and which shop or home or tavern
we’ll visit or past. In fact, we’ll sort out a heck of a lot of things and even
draw some maps or room layouts. Doing so in crayon is fine if you can sneak
them away from the crayon owners. We won’t tell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">And neither will our characters.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/">Got Rights? How to Publish Your Book On Kindle</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Nina Bruhns</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-16, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Kindles, Nooks, and iPads are all the rage
these days. For authors who have gotten the rights reverted on their older
books, uploading them to the various self-publishing programs can be a nice
added income. Some authors are even skipping the middleman and going indie,
publishing their original works straight to Kindle, Pub-It, and many other
venues, rather than the traditional publishing route. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.bdrwa.com/black_diamonds_chapter_of/online-classes-1.html">The Biology and Natural History and Lore of the European Wolfe (A Guide forWriters)</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Eva Gordon</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-18, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">My intension is to give you enough background
in wolf biology and lore to aid you in writing good strong wolf scenes or even
create a werewolf inspired from all the global legends. I will start with basic
wolf biology, taxonomy and behavior. I then will discuss wolf lore (European)
and how the wolf went from admired archetype to savage evil nemesis. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1132">How To Find An Agent – And NOT Get Scammed</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jaye Roycraft</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-19, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
Finding an agent can be a time-consuming, agonizing process which can be all
the more devastating if you’re scammed out of money by a fraudulent
“agent.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an author who’s been both
scammed badly and signed by a legitimate agent, instructor Jaye Roycraft has
firsthand knowledge of both and can relate to authors who are attempting to
land an agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lessons will focus on
both mistakes writers make that can result in being the victim of a scam and on
positive steps for finding a legitimate agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Included will be details of Jaye’s personal journey of heartbreak and
elation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1442"><strong>The Four Point Critique: Introduction to Making Your Critiques Positive, Constructive, Specific and Honest</strong></a></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Teresa Bodwell</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-23, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This workshop will help you refine your critiquing skills through
lecture, discussion and hands on critiquing. Topics include: Tips for great
feedback; understanding variables of voice, tone and style; learning to look
beyond the trees to the forest; and tips for critting specific scenes, such as
the opening, action scenes and dialog scenes. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Participants will work in small groups to critique each others' work,</span>
therefore this workshop will require active student participation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructors:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Barbra Annino<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-24, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We all know what funny is when we read it. But do you know just what it
is that makes that scene/line/description funny? This intensive, hands-on class
will explore humor in various forms by examining popular fiction, films and
essays to get to the root of humor. Participants will learn the concept of
timing, the power of three, the opposite effect and various other methods for
injecting humor into your writing. Class includes writing exercises and
instructor feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=940">Cracking the Romance Code: Unlocking Storytelling Secrets for Writing the Quintessential Romance Novel</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kimberly Llewellyn</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-25, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When it comes to writing the romance novel, everyone wants to know the
secret handshake—there isn’t one! But by understanding the romance novel's
embedded core romance elements, you can unlock the code to writing a compelling
story of your own. Book Sense Notable Pick recipient, author, Kimberly
Llewellyn, shares how to decode the secrets to writing the quintessential
romance novel and create a captivating read. At the end of this workshop you
will recognize the romance codes more easily in books and incorporate them into
your own writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, you'll be able
to speak the code with authors, agents, and editors. Lastly, Kimberly will
share other authors' significant ah-ha moments and hopefully inspire some of
your own.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=943">Editing Like a Pro: How to Polish Your Manuscript Till It Shines</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Pat Huldren</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-25, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Writing a great story is the first step in getting your manuscript ready
for publication. In “Editing Lie A Pro”, we’ll learn how to take your ms to the
next level, making your words shine through as a story that’s easy to read,
flows well, and formatted properly to wow an editor or agent. There’s more to
writing than slinging words on a page. Using the right words at the right time
and arranging them artfully in the sentence and paragraph is of utmost
importance in writing seamless prose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1008">Point of View</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructors:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Kathleen Rowland<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-25, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The second most common reason for manuscript rejection (after lackluster
story) is faulty point of view. POV is one of fiction writing's tricky
challenges, but when you get it right, you will deepen everything your
character thinks, says, experiences with bodily response and the other four
senses. Using the flashlight-on-the-head technique, you are going to be a whiz
at sticking to one POV per scene. You'll submit a three page section per week
and receive feedback. It's fine to use your work-in-progress. By the end of the
month, you'll know if your scene is long enough to make a point. You'll start
using an 'in the moment' method to quicken the pace. Most important of all,
your characters will sound like themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=815">The Business of Creative Writing</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Alice Osborn</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-25, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">These days even if you're a great writer, no one will know unless you
work the business of writing. Writing is a war of attrition, and the writers
who keep working on their craft and think like an entrepreneur are the ones who
will succeed. In this workshop experienced instructor and writer Alice
Osborn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will discuss networking,
maintaining submission logs, tracking expenses and income, cash flow, and
social media, blogs and marketing. This workshop will also help you with
crafting that all-important query letter and making sure you have the
confidence to sell yourself and your writing. All genres and all levels are
welcome to attend this three week intensive workshop which will include video
and webcasts. Participants are recommended to have a website and/or blog prior
to beginning this class.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=852">Blasting Through Blah!</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Donna Alward</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-26, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Most authors have written a
scene that just doesn’t feel quite right, or lacks that certain spark. Saggy
middles?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stilted dialogue?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t seem to see what’s wrong?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one-week workshop will introduce some
fun techniques to blast through the blahs of your manuscript! Come prepared
with a work in progress, as each day attendees will try their hand at employing
the day’s technique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a five part
(one week) workshop with assignments for participants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Assignments will not be graded. Target
Audience: Mixed. Must have a work in progress ongoing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Alexa Bourne</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-28, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Students will
explore reasons to enter contests, how to find the right contest for their
work, how to follow the “rules,” how to deal with the results/feedback of
contests, and finally choose contests. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Patricia Mason</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">What do you do
when your novel’s dialogue is feeble? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Is
there help when conflict is sagging not sizzling? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What’s
the answer when description is shapeless? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Your
action sequences are out of breath rather than leaving the reader breathless. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Answer:
Your novel needs some exercise. Why not take it to boot camp. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/">Writing About Magic and Magicians</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Rayne Hall</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-28, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Create believable magicians (good and evil),
fictional spells which work, and plot complications when the magic goes wrong.
Learn about high and low magic, witches and wizards, circle-casting and
power-raising, initiation and training, tools and costumes, science and
religion, conflicts and secrecy, and apply them to your novel. This is a 4-week
course with 12 lessons and practical assignments. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.yosemiteromancewriters.com/id33.html">Developing Brand You!</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jennifer Fusco</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In this workshop, the audience will gain a deep
understanding of brand, what it is, why it’s important to have one and how you
communicate your brand on the web and in the social media space. The audience
will also learn self-evaluation techniques to develop their own brand
statement. By the end of the workshop, the audience will have a brand statement
and a workable plan to help put their brand and marketing efforts in motion.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses/detail/2-writing/18-march-mams-for-characters-milieu-and-motivation">M&Ms for Characters: Milieu and Motivation</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Sharon Mignerey</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Most of the fiction writers
I know have several books on character development that espouse all sorts of
advice. Most of that advice boils down to making sure character development
includes two things: milieu and motivation. In a word, M&Ms. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Of all the techniques to
build well-rounded characters, milieu and motivation provide the necessary
fodder to create unforgettable characters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Tamela Buhrke</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Fact: Social media will be
a part of your life as a writer. Your publisher will make you use it. And if
you self publish, it will be essential. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The most successful authors
embrace social media early in their careers, often before they are published.
They use social media to build their platform. And when they are published they
have far greater success, because they've already built a following of readers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.margielawson.com/lawson-writers-academy-courses/detail/2-writing/31-march-using-the-rule-of-six-for-plotting">Using the Rule of Six for Plotting</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Shirley Jump</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Capitalize on this
technique marketing gurus have used for years to find the "thought not
thought of yet" and avoid duplicating a plot line, character quirk or
other idea already out there (that you may have seen subconsciously). Then
learn how to use this technique to take your writing deeper and draw out more
emotion, more conflict...more of everything! <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.writersonlineclasses.com/?page_id=735">Microsoft Word for Writers</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Catherine Chant</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-31, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">“Microsoft Word for Writers” focuses on
teaching you the aspects of the Word program that are most useful for writers.
Lessons include: proper manuscript formatting, creating headers/footers,
working with page numbers, creating a manuscript template, customizing the
toolbars, understanding/ customizing the Auto-Correct feature, and using the
Work menu or Recent Documents menu as a shortcut to work with multiple
documents at the same time. Other subjects that will be covered include:
formatting the query letter, creating a query letter template, creating
envelopes and SASE labels, using Track Changes to work with critique partners,
and backing up your computer files.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1152">Creating Memorable Characters</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructors:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Sue Viders & Becky Martinez<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Need some help developing great characters? Want to get to know what
makes your characters tick so that you can turn them into real flesh and blood
heroes and heroines? Join us for a workshop that will help you learn how to
make the characters in your books come alive. Discover how you can turn your
hero and heroine from wooden figures into realistic people your readers will
remember long after they put down the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1371">Getting Your Story Off to the Right Start</a></strong></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beth Cornelison</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Getting Your Story Off to the Right Start covers
the elements of storytelling an editor and agent will look for in a new
submission and the spark that makes an author's writing stand out. In addition,
the workshop gives a check list of elements to consider as you start each new
book including finding original story ideas, choosing a hook,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>setting up characters and outlining where
your story will go with goals, story themes, and character growth and much
more.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1258">Painfree Synopsis Writing</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructors:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Sally J. Walker<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Novelists and Dramatists alike need to be able to summarize their
stories in succinct 1-4 page synopsis format for marketing purposes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you know how to take that screenplay or
60,000-100,000 word novel to a mere 500 words and maintain the vigor and
enthralling intensity of character and plot?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since busy agents, editors and producers REQUIRE a synopsis, you better
know how to create one that will hold their attention!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Pam McCutcheon</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Writing an entire novel can be intimidating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if you remember that a book is a series
of connected scenes, writing one scene at a time is much less daunting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you master scene structure, you have
mastered one of the basics of storytelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To help with this, Pam McCutcheon explains what scene and sequel are and
how to structure them with maximum effect, then uses examples from published
works as well as interactive class examples to drive the point home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=790">The Language of Liars</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Lucinda Schroeder</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Imagine if writers knew how the FBI deciphers deceptive body language
and verbal responses to catch criminals. This is exactly what “The Language of
Liars” is about. The techniques explained in this class are known to law
enforcement officers and are now available to writers through this class. This
is the only class in which lie detection techniques are taught to writers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=796">The Other Scotland: Lowlands and Borders</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jody Allen</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As most of you know the greatest number of historical romances set in
Scotland are set in the Highlands, due in large part to the romance of the
tragic past from the 18th<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and 19th<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>century. However, if you have done any
research on Scotland at all you know that much of the country’s history
occurred in the Lowlands and Borders. This class will help you to define where
are the Lowlands/Borders located, who the people are and how their culture was
different than that of their fellow Scots to the north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scottish romances are a mainstay in
historical romance and many publishers are looking for new and unique plots.
One can’t assume that all Scots spoke the same language, had the same familial
structure, nor had the same history. This class will allow you to explore the
Other Scotland lacking in the body of Scottish historical romances : the
Lowlands and Borders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> J</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">une Diehl</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Writing Serial Novels explores the nature of what<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it takes in terms of plot and characters to
make a story idea a series instead of a single title. We will delve into the
characteristics of a serial<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>novel,
including the advantages and disadvantages of writing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a series. Examples from published works will
be used along with ways the participants can expand a story idea into a series
of novels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Pamela Jaye Smith</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 4, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">From initial inspiration through writing, research, re-writing,
polishing, pitching, production, marketing, and distribution – increase the
power of your creativity with these timeless, practical tools once mainly
taught in the ancient and secret Mystery Schools.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beth Cornelison</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 5-April 1, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Getting Your Story Off to the Right Start covers
the elements of storytelling an editor and agent will look for in a new
submission and the spark that makes an author's writing stand out. In addition,
the workshop gives a check list of elements to consider as you start each new
book including finding original story ideas, choosing a hook,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>setting up characters and outlining where
your story will go with goals, story themes, and character growth and much
more.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Barbara Plum</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-18<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Where we live—or where we grew up—shapes almost
everything about us:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what we eat, our
accent, our political views, our religious beliefs, our expectations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Sometimes we’re the opposite of everyone we
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chances are, our setting
influenced that difference).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same
idea applies to our characters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Misty Evans</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-25, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Romance
readers and publishers alike love series, but plotting a romance series can be
a daunting project, keeping you from taking the plunge. Not only do you have to
manage the main plot, but also the romantic one. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=967">Curing the “What Comes After the First 3 Chapters” Blues Dealing with the Middle of Your Story</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beth Daniels</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-April 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">How the
heck do you do that when your mind has frozen or your story seems to be
circling and circling without moving ahead? T</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">hat’s what Curing the “What Comes After the First
Three Chapters” Blues is all about. It’s dealing with the Middle of Your Story.
FINDING a middle to your story. And not just one that suffices, but one that
will have readers (which are what editors are, too) wanting to keep turning the
pages. It’s going beyond the vague to the specific, moving from one scene to
the next, making each one count whether the object is to build suspense or
simply build a better love story. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.occrwa.org/onlineclassMarch12.html">It’s Not Just a Point of View</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Shannon Donnelly</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-April 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> T</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">hird person, first person,
multiple viewpoints, single – all of it can be confusing. What works? When do
you shift viewpoint, how and, more importantly, why? And, how do you take POV
so deep that a reader feels everything a character feels?<br />
This workshop will cover some basic elements of POV control. In particular,
we'll look at how control over viewpoint can increase the emotion for the
reader. Exercises will be used to sharpen POV control, which is one of the most
fundamental and strongest techniques in any writer's tool box.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1343">Indie Publishing</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Dyanne Davis</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-April 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">With so many changes in the world of publishing I
think it’s time to review our options. We’ll discuss: established and new
epublishers and of course doing it yourself. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I’ll share my actual numbers with you pertaining to
sales. We’ll discuss stories of success and of defeat. In short the goal of
this workshop is to inform you of your options so you’re better armed to make
your decision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1334">Self-Publicity for the Beginning Small Press Author</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Babs Mountjoy</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-April 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">You've persevered, sweated and edited until you've
created a published novel--Congratulations! Now you need to sell it. So many
small press authors are expected to do this without a lot of help from their
publishers, without a budget, and without a whole lot of time on their hands,
since most of them have day jobs, too. And families. And more </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">books to write.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1339">Sins Against the Sentence and How to Atone for Them</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MM Pollard</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-April 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What is your manuscript? A collection of related
sentences that tells a story. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Your story lives or dies on the sentences you write
to tell your story. Are your sentences interesting and varied or boring and the
same? Do you know the difference between a sentence and a fragment? Can you say
why run-on sentences are a bad idea? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1320">World Building 201: Using Worldbuilding to Develop and Grow Your Story</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Karina Fabian</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-April 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">**NOTE** Need to have taken Worldbuilding 101 or
have an established world! </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Let’s take it up a notch!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This forum class will help you apply your
world to your story, explore it in more depth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’ll create some simple supporting documents, play with scenes, and
take your world to the next story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1268">Ground Breaking</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Marcy Weydemuller</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-April 9<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The reality of our world, its emotional resonance
and unique atmosphere, will be found in the details. Either we see it though
the familiarity and ordinariness of our main character, or we see its
strangeness through her confusion or entrancement. So it’s important for us to
know the details ourselves. Just as we can walk around our homes in the dark,
knowing exactly where we are, so must our characters. What is real to them
needs to be real to us. This provides authentic atmosphere, tone and mood. But it
doesn’t mean we need to invent everything. In this four-week workshop we’ll
break ground to create our unique setting.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=785">The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<strong>I</strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>nstructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mayra Calvani</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 12-April 15<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Learn the secrets of book reviewing from Mayra
Calvani, co-author of the ForeWord Best Book of the Year award-winning title,
The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing. From the key elements of a good reviewer,
to what makes a good review, to how to write a thoughtful, intelligent review,
to the different types of reviews, to how to deal with the most common
reviewing problems, to how to build an online platform, this workshop will
teach you, in a nutshell, all you need to know to get started as a professional
book reviewer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.passionateink.org/workshops/">Writing Erotic Horror</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">J.K. Coi</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 16-31<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">EC
authors know how to make readers tremble…but can they make you Shiver? Learn
about one of EC’s newest genres—erotic horror! </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">One
of the basic principles of horror is to take something that everyone is
familiar with, and twist it until it becomes the very thing they’ve always
dreaded…which is a good reason why there has always been sex in horror. This
introduction will consist of examples of sex in horror, from film, art and
literature. Participants will also enjoy an overview of the expectations and
criteria of the horror genre and a brief discussion about the integral
association between horror and sex.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jaye Roycraft</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 19-26<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Not every talented writer will be able to obtain an
agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many choose instead to submit
directly to publishers that don’t require agented submissions – small
publishers or epubs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But good small
publishers, like agents, are highly selective in their acceptances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hear directly from two publishers what they
look for in submissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t burn good
markets by making mistakes that can easily be avoided.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1122">Dialogue – More Than Just Talk</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Flo Fitzpatrick</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 19-April 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Are your characters' conversations
"Dangling?" Or is there too much "Yakety-yak" ? Join Flo
Fitzpatrick for a straight-talking workshop focusing on how to use dialogue to
bring characters to life, describe striking images - and even enhance plot.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1321">Editing – Not for Wimps: How to Make a Clean Copy Publishers Will Love</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Karin Fabian</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 19-April 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Karina Fabian takes you through the strategies and tricks
of the trade in a method that has earned her praise from editors of several
publishing companies she’s worked with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bring a nearly ready WIP to use in class.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=720">Point of View - The Camera’s Eye</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Masha Holl</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 19-April 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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of View - The Camera's Eye<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Aspects<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kat Duncan</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 19-April 15<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Without proper pace, your stories can sag, drag or
just fade away. Proper pace depends on knowing how to make your reader
anticipate the next scene, and when to give your reader a moment to take a
breath. The workshop will cover in-depth details about the pitfalls of pacing
and how to avoid having their pace robbed by certain writing techniques. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Phoebe Conn</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 19-April 15<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Learn
how to analyze your ideas to select the best and turn your first book into a
series. When THE SKY’S THE LIMIT, set your imagination free to create
larger-than-life characters with wrenching conflicts to overcome. We’ll compare
our impressions of popular films with Futuristic elements, THE TERMINATOR and
AVATAR as well as other favorites. </span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1074"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He Shot the Sheriff And I Know Why: Motivating Your Characters</span></strong></a></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Ann Roth</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 26-April 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">If you've ever been told your characters seem
cardboard or cliché, this class is for you. Characters with strong, clear
motivations for their thoughts, dialogue and actions are never cliché . During
this week-long class we'll explore this thing called motivation- what it is,
and how to develop and use it in creating characters so that they are
three-dimensional and believable.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1357">Lights! Camera! Bestseller!</a></strong></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Chris Redding</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 26-April 4<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Chris
Redding will show you how movie making and scriptwriting techniques can make
your novel come alive. She will cover the three act structure of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>most movies and instruct you on how you can
use movie magic including shot lists to make your novel a bestseller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Becky Martinez</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 26-April 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Getting your novel to flow sometimes seems like an
impossible task. But that doesn’t have to be the case. Learn easy steps that
you can apply to almost any story to go between action scenes and slower
reflective scenes. Find ways to keep increasing the tension throughout your
story so that you get rid of the sagging middle and learn how to keep those
hooks grabbing your readers along the way. Get some simple suggestions
including a look at how a story board can help and a way to devise one easily,
even for the author who likes to write by the seat of the pants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Paty Jager</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 26-April 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We'll discuss setting up an internet presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Where to find free promotion and how to use it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What you need to know to contact book stores, set
up book signings, and what to do before, during, and after a signing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">How to write a bio and press release and how to put
together a promotional packet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Alice Osborn</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 26-April 15<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What does your fictional character really want? How
do you create memorable characters so fresh and clever your reader will always
remember them? Disney/Pixar films such as Finding Nemo, Cars and Up have
created the most believable characters in twenty first century film. In this
three-part workshop we’ll study these films so they can tell us how to create
riveting and complex main characters who will drive our story and connect with
our readers. We’ll also examine Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, depicted
in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, to learn how these films main characters
reflect the Hero’s Journey. We’ll see how learning and deconstructing these
films can inform our own characters.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Irene Roth</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 26-April 15<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Course Description:</strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In this three week<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nonfiction Editing workshop, Irene will outline the editing process that
is involved in revising a nonfiction article or book, from the first draft to
the final copy. There are many stages to the revision process. She will outline
these stages in detail in this workshop. After taking this workshop, writers
will be able to submit manuscripts that will have a much greater chance of
getting accepted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mac McRedmond</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Dates:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> March 26-April 22<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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have a deeper understanding of what it means to be a cop or corrections
officer, how criminals think and the never-ending battle between the good, the
bad and the ugly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong>Instructor:</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Todd Stone</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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fantasy or horror and no matter if<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your
hero is a modern knight who values his freedom, rebel with or without a cause,
or a bad boy with too many tattoos and a bad attitude, your character (and it
can be a she and your heroine!) will better capture the reader's interest and
heart when you better understand the different parts of the motorcycling world,
the people who populate it, and how to use that knowledge to rev up your novel.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happy writing!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://community.harlequin.com/forums/write-stuff/act-fast-editor-pitch-challenge-harlequin-presents">Act Fast! Editor Pitch Challenge forHarlequin Presents</a>
launches today. But this is no ordinary challenge because the editors are after
a short extract and a back cover blurb with entries closing Feb 27. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a entry period, so you’d
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep in mind that the competition time is EST so if
you’re in another time zone please, please, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">please</i>
make sure that the competition is officially open. As with most things there’s
a chance your entry may be disqualified if entered early and let’s face it,
that would just make us all sad. So! Here’s a <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html">time and date converter</a>.</span></span></div>
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I can cheer you on and good luck!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Busy, busy, busy. First off, congratulations to
anyone who entered <span id="goog_395945999"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Nicola Marsh’s Valentine’s Day pitch</a> <span id="goog_395946000"></span>for SIX <a href="http://www.entangledpublishing.com/">EntangledPublishing</a> editors. There’s a few entries in there I’d love to read so I can’t wait for the
results tomorrow.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, congratulations to anyone who entered the
Harlequin Medical pitch competition! Their wait is a little longer (the 17<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>)
but it’s exciting to think that we could be about to discover the next <a href="http://www.scarlet-wilson.com/">ScarletWilson</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or <a href="http://www.wendysmarcus/">Wendy S.Marcus</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a few things on my plate at the moment so
I’m cheating with today’s blog post and redirecting you to somewhere equally
fabulous. Last year, fantasy author <a href="http://www.rachelaaron.net/">Rachel Aaron</a> blogged
about how she increased her word count from 2K to 10K per day. It’s the most
detailed post I’ve ever read on an author’s word count productivity, and the
best thing is that she tells you how to customize it to work for you. I hope
you’ll find it just as helpful as I did.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When I started writing The Spirit War (Eli novel
#4), I had a bit of a problem. I had a brand new baby and my life (like ever
new mother’s life) was constantly on the verge of shambles. I paid for a sitter
four time a week so I could get some writing time, and I guarded these hours
like a mama bear guards her cubs – with ferocity and hiker-mauling violence. To
keep my schedule and make my deadlines, I needed to write 4000 words during
each o these carefully arranged sessions I thought this would be simple. After
all, before I quit my job to write full time I’d been writing 2k a day in the
three hours before work. Surely with 6 hours of baby free writing time, 4k a
day would be nothing…</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But (of course), things didn’t work out like
that. Every day I’d sit down to add 4000 words to my new manuscript. I was
determined, I was experienced, I knew my world. There was no reason I couldn’t
get 4k down. But every night when I hauled myself away, my word count had only
increased by 2k, the same number of words I’d been getting before I quit my day
job.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Needless to say, I felt like a failure. Here I
was, a professional writer with three books about to come out, and I couldn’t
even beat the writing I’d done before I went pro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I made excuses, this novel was the
most complicated of all the Eli books I’d written, I was tired because my son
thinks 4am is an awesome time to play, etc, etc. But the truth was there was no
excuse. I had to find a way to boost my word count and with months of 2k a day
dragging me down, I had to do it fast. So I got scientific. I gathered data and
tried experiments, and ultimately ended up boosting my word count to heights
far beyond what I thought was possible, and I did it while making my writing
better than ever before....</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think we’ve all been there at one time or another.
Perhaps you’re there now. Here’s the <a href="http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html">link</a> to help you boost your word count by
8K!</span></span></div>
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note that all course descriptions are in blurb form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s often more information at the
official websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The February writing
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jim
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Flash Fiction: What is it? How do I write it? Why
should I bother? </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This workshop is aimed at writers who are new to
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Day 2 -- Choosing a story to write<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Day 4 -- Thinking about words<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Day 5 -- Why write flash?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Day 6 -- Final questions/comments. Stories
deadline.</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=704"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Manning the Submission’s Box</span></a></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Tina
Gerow</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 13 –26, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Y</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">ou’ve slaved over your manuscript and it’s
finally perfect!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next step?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Submitting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But what really happens once your manuscript hits the editor’s
submissions box?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find out what are the
pet peeves, do’s & don’ts, tips & tricks and even the horror stories
that will help your manuscript stand out...or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=704"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Series Business – Is Writing A Series Right For You</span></a></strong></span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Misty
Evans</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 13 –26, 2012 </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">No matter what genre, series are in demand by
readers and publishers alike. But is writing a series right for you? This workshop
will help you:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Examine the pros and cons of writing a series</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Define and evaluate your idea</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Develop a Series Bible to track plot lines,
characters and story arcs</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Develop a Pitch Bible that includes blurbs,
synopses and a story arc to market to agents and editors</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turn your series idea into a workable project with
tools, templates and one-on-one help</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=706"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Query Bootcamp: How To Prepare Your Novel’s Query Package and Find the Perfect Agent</span></a></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">F.T.
Bradley</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 13 – March 10, 2012 </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">If you've been learning more about selling
your work, you've probably heard that you need build a platform, or make a name
for yourself. But how do you even begin? This workshop will teach you how to
find your brand, how to find free ways to build a reputation and get your name
out there, and how to make sure you build your platform the right way. Turn
your series idea into a workable project with tools, templates and one-on-one
help.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.occrwa.org/onlineclassFeb12.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kiss Me or Kill Me: Writing Cozy Mysteries 101 for Romance Writers</span></a></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Linda
O. Johnston</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 13 – March 11, 2012 </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The class will also address
the basics of writing cozies: choosing a protagonist and deciding how she’ll
get involved solving mysteries; choosing a theme for the series; introducing
and following through with a love interest (or not); throwing in a corpse or
two, plus hiding clues for solving the murders; planning a series; and much
more!</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1113"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nurturing the Writer Within</span></a></strong></span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mary
O’Gara</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 13 – March 11, 2012</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Blessed and cursed by writers over the centuries as
the inner writer is the intuitive, perceptive, storytelling, pattern-making
part of our mind. Often berated as whimsical (or worse), the Inner Writer
responds to simple but specific routines, which are as unique as the writer
they serve.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During this four-week workshop, Mary O'Gara will
share simple but profound ways to nurture your inner writer in order to make
your writing time more fun and more productive. Nurturing the Writer Within is
an eclectic workshop with 21 easy ways to connect with and nurture your inner
writer.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=966"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tweaking History: Steampunk And Other Tales Of Alternate History</span></a></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Beth
Daniels</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 13 – March 11, 2012 </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Alternative history tales have been around for a
number of years in the fantasy world, some even written by historians.
Currently the Steampunk version of history altering is in demand whether in the
world of romance or that of fantasy. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This workshop will cover what’s needed to readjust
the world to your storytelling muse’s delight. We’ll take things out, change
the winners in war, the circumstances in discoveries, and borrow and warp
whatever we wish whether the end result is Steampunk or something else
entirely!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1269"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Writing Inspirational Romance</span></a></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Marcy
Weydemuller</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 13 – March 11, 2012 </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What are the challenges and the satisfaction of
writing inspirational romance? In this four-week workshop we’ll dig into the
unique qualities of this genre, which readers continue to hunger for. And we’ll
begin to brainstorm a novel of your own.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.bdrwa.com/black_diamonds_chapter_of/online-classes-1.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Layering, It’s Not Just For Cakes</span></a></strong></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Chris
Redding</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 13 – 26, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Layering will teach the writer how to put all
the layers into a manuscript seamlessly. We will start with a page of dialogue
and each lesson will show how to add different aspects that are vital to the
story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.writersonlineclasses.com/?page_id=723"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Alchemy of Writing</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Adele
San Miguel</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 15 – March 14, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">That book within you?
Divinely inspired. You don’t need to struggle to let it out. Harness your power
and intelligence through a combination of meditation* and practical focus.
Adele San Miguel will lead you to the place where you trust the words that
flow. The one where you do not struggle and strive, but relax and allow your
brilliance. Impossible? Easy. Let the force be with you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1147"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flash Fiction II</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jim
Harrington</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – 26, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The first flash fiction workshop introduced flash fiction and discussed
how to trim the prose to make it lean and mean. This workshop furthers that
discussion. The first session provides a brief overview of what makes up a
story. This is followed by a discussion of the importance of setting,
character, point of view and voice, and how these elements work together to
provide the kind of story a reader wants to read. The workshop concludes with a
discussion of beginnings--specifically, the title and its job in a story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1369"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holiday Hocus Pocus</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Devon
Ellington</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – 26, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Holiday-themed anthologies and stories keep growing in popularity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the Christmas/Yuletide season sees the most
traffic in that area, there are dozens of other possibilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spend a week of writing and brainstorming
with Devon Ellington on both popular and lesser-known holidays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn how to develop your ideas, fit
formatting, seek out markets, and create a timeline for these pieces -- both in
the traditionally advised ways and the way Devon does it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week-long intensive will require involve
short daily assignments and lots of interaction and laughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come prepared to write and try anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will discuss different seasons/holidays on
different days, and you’ll have the foundation of a year’s worth of
holiday-themed pieces by the end. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1314"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Practical Emotional Structure</span></strong></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jodi
Henley</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – 26, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Your grammar is tight, your plot is high concept and your hero and
heroine each have a transformational arc. Why doesn’t anyone care? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you've been told your story is lacking an
emotional component, join Jodi Henley for Practical Emotional Structure, an
interactive workshop that redefines reader expectations and emotional hooks
using emotional understructures, credibility, and subtext to make your story
resonate with your target audience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1357"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lights! Camera! Bestseller!</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Chris
Redding</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – March 4, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Chris Redding will show you how movie making and scriptwriting techniques can make your novel come alive. She will cover the three act structure of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>most movies and instruct you on how you can use movie magic including shot lists to make your novel a bestseller.No need to write anything special for this class, just bring along any scene you’ve already written.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=938"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everybody’s a Comedian</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Barbra
Annino</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – March 10, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">We all know what funny is when we read it.
But do you know just what it is that makes that scene/line/description funny?
This intensive, hands-on class will explore humor in various forms by examining
popular fiction, films and essays to get to the root of humor. Participants
will learn the concept of timing, the power of three, the opposite effect and
various other methods for injecting humor into your writing. Class includes
writing exercises and instructor feedback.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1331"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Author Marketing and Branding – The Real Deal</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Cassandra
Carr</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – March 18, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In this course you will learn what branding is, what your platform is
and how to develop it, including tips for book launches and signings, what
should be on your website, how to put together author pages on sites like
Amazon and Goodreads, and much more!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1335"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hunting the Elusive Hook</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kat
Duncan</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – March 18, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What is a hook and how can I use it? Whether you've never heard of hooks
or have been writing hooks for years, this workshop will take you through the
whole gamut of ways to write hooks and use them effectively. Participants will
learn how to evaluate and create hooks for all kinds of uses in their writing,
with a focus on hooking readers in the crucial story opening. The workshop will
go beyond the opening hook, showing ways to hook readers throughout an entire
novel. The workshop with cover ways to generate book titles, make the reader
care about what happens next in every scene, build tension and micro-tension
with internal hooks and tie up hooks in a satisfying way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1335"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sensual Novella</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Eliza
Knight</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – March 18, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Sensual novellas are about much more than sex. And the guidelines are
different than for a traditional-length novel. This workshop will help you
learn how to plot a novella whether you are a heavy outliner or a “pantser.”
You’ll see how easy it is to layer emotion into your love scenes and hook the
reader from the very first sentence. The class will also instruct you on how to
pack more into less words, while still keeping your love story strong and your
audience captivated.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1079"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sky’s the Limit: Writing the Futuristic Novel</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Phoebe
Conn</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – March 18, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Learn how to analyze your ideas to select the best and turn your first
book into a series. When THE SKY’S THE LIMIT, set your imagination free to
create larger-than-life characters with wrenching conflicts to overcome. We’ll
compare our impressions of popular films with Futuristic elements, THE
TERMINATOR and AVATAR as well as other favorites. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1368"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Words That Sing</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mercy
Weydemueller</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – March 19, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Words that sing are the words that stand out to the reader. They impact
the heart and provide a lingering resonance. We choose these words like a
painter chooses a particular color from his palette or a poet her sound. They
are usually ordinary words that are fine-tuned for a clear purpose. So how do
we develop them? In this four-week workshop, we’ll sharpen our senses to hear
language, images and metaphors that give voice to our writing.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1074"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He Shot the Sheriff and I Know Why: Motivating Your Characters</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Ann
Roth</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 27 – March 4, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">If you've ever been told your characters
seem cardboard or cliché, this class is for you. Characters with strong, clear
motivations for their thoughts, dialogue and actions are never cliché . During
this week-long class we'll explore this thing called motivation- what it is,
and how to develop and use it in creating characters so that they are
three-dimensional and believable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"></span><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1059"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nonfiction Editing: From First Draft to Final Copy</span></a></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Irene
Roth</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 27 – March 18, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In this three week<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonfiction
Editing workshop, Irene will outline the editing process that is involved in
revising a nonfiction article or book, from the first draft to the final copy.
There are many stages to the revision process. She will outline these stages in
detail in this workshop. After taking this workshop, writers will be able to
submit manuscripts that will have a much greater chance of getting
accepted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://crw-rwa.ning.com/page/2012-onlineworkshops#march2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Selling to Woman’s World Magazine: Beyond the Basics, Part I</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kate
Willoughby</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 27 – March 23, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Woman’s World, one of
the last remaining periodicals to publish short fiction, pays $800 for an 800
word romance story, and if you sell to them there’s a good chance over a
million people will read your story.</span></span></div>
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Nice work if you can get it, right? Well, you can. My class, “Selling to
Woman’s World Magazine—Beyond the Basics, Part I,” will give you the tools you
need to break into this tough market.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://crw-rwa.ning.com/page/2012-onlineworkshops#march1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twitter for Novices: Exploring and Enjoying the Twitterverse</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">LaTessa
Montgomery</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 27 – March 23, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jumping into Twitter can be daunting task, even to
those experienced with other social media such as blogging and FaceBook.
However, with my workshop, I take the fear out of this process by breaking up
theTwitterverse into easy to manage chunks. This is a hands on workshop through
which I will participants through each lesson and have virutal classroom hours
establish so we can interact with each other real time via Twitter to aid in
the learning process.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1387"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Writing the New American Cowboy: Bikers 101</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Todd
Stone</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 27 – March 25, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">No matter if you’re writing mystery,
romance, fantasy or horror and no matter if<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>your hero is a modern knight who values his freedom, rebel with or
without a cause, or a bad boy with too many tattoos and a bad attitude, your
character (and it can be a she and your heroine!) will better capture the
reader's interest and heart when you better understand the different parts of
the motorcycling world, the people who populate it, and how to use that
knowledge to rev up your novel.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=990"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Depths of POV – An Advanced Look</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">June
Diehl</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 27 – March 25, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The Depths of POV focuses on the more
advanced questions the writer should ask when deciding POV: Which POV is right
for this story and why? How to pick the right POV character or characters? How
deep should the POV go? When and how might I break POV rules? How is POV
related to the other story elements? How can POV strengthen characterization?
Reinforce setting? Add to the plot and subplots? Enhance the theme? The
workshop explores the advantages and disadvantages of the subtypes of POV and
includes examples of each type from published works.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1367"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Scottish Highlands: 16th & 17th Centuries</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Sharron
Gunn w/a Sheila Currie</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> February 20 – March 31, 2012 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Course Description:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">In the 16th & 17th centuries, the laws and
customs of the Scottish Highlands were considered archaic; they were common in
western Europe in the High Middle Ages, but had disappeared by the Renaissance.
Highland chiefs were still inaugurated, not crowned, in ancient ceremonies and
revered by their clansmen as quasi-sacred figures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Highland assembly for justice in the 17th
century resembled a Viking Thing of the 10th or 11th centuries. Secular
marriage outside the church was normal. What really frightened Lowlanders and
English was the chiefs' ability to raise a small army at little cost to
themselves. The Jacobite Rebellions would have been impossible without clan
armies. This course shows how life in the Highlands was different from the
Lowlands and other parts of Great Britain and how similar to Ireland.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=886"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Want Style? Get Grammar – 101-303</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Instructor:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Kat
Duncan</span></span></div>
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where do I get one? Whether you "get" grammar or not, your style and
voice come from how you use grammar. This grammar-based style-enhancing
workshop is for writers who don't "get" grammar or for those who
think they don't want to get it. Proper use of grammar and style makes a story
flow smoothly, page after page. Poorly constructed sentences and paragraphs ruin
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Lacey Devlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05716109142743069204noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412297654197893804.post-73426573746624834542012-01-26T14:46:00.002+10:002012-01-26T14:47:09.855+10:00And The Winner Is...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just a quickie post today to announce the winner for the <a href="http://www.helenlacey.com/">Helen Lacey</a> giveaway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the winner is... Anne MacFarlane. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Congratulations, Anne! Just pop over to </span><a href="http://www.helenlacey.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Helen Lacey's website</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and leave your details on the contact form to claim your prize.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUNyv5OhzRX58VTPpVNTK1FzVLcKLTwd6QdX_sm6cmeRKAL3B1hyphenhyphenAc7KoCG3x24KE9MbhsXxJa2rEw_PDPUdo2RRFIzd57k9acfnnNREWuZVGjI-P1B0ouWHeWxZk4TJDKTJoOEi8mOWw/s1600/Helen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUNyv5OhzRX58VTPpVNTK1FzVLcKLTwd6QdX_sm6cmeRKAL3B1hyphenhyphenAc7KoCG3x24KE9MbhsXxJa2rEw_PDPUdo2RRFIzd57k9acfnnNREWuZVGjI-P1B0ouWHeWxZk4TJDKTJoOEi8mOWw/s1600/Helen.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve been writing most of my life and penned my first book
when I was seven years old. Finally, after twenty three years of submitting to
Harlequin, I sold my first book to Harlequin Special Edition last year. During
those years I purchased dozens of ‘How To’ books. I also attended many conferences
and road shows, and participated in countless workshops, both online and in
person - on subjects such as Creating Compelling Characters,
Goal/Motivation/Conflict, Maintaining Sexual Tension, Writing The Breakout
Novel, World Building etc. I listened to best selling authors, editors, agents
and publishers offer advice on the craft of writing, on the world of
publishing, and the commitment needed to have a successful writing career. I had
a dream of being an author and did whatever I needed to so I could break into
the ranks of the published. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But strangely, it wasn't at any of these events, or in any
of these books where I learned what would become the most important piece of
career advice I’d heard. And it’s something I remind myself of every morning
when I fire up my computer and sit down to write. Like most writers, during my
years trying to get published I had a ‘real’ job. I worked for a national
department store as a sales manager. While I was there I was fortunate enough
to be given the opportunity to participate in a half day session given by
Australian motivational speaker </span><a href="http://paulhanna.com.au/about.htm"><span style="color: #a6202e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paul
Hanna</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Since every “How To’ book I read was about the craft of writing, I
had limited knowledge of who Mr Hanna was. But along with a conference room
full of my colleagues and staff, I listened to him speak for close to two
hours. And mid way through this session he said something that resonated so
strongly within me, I can barely remember anything else which was said. And
this one statement changed the trajectory of my career and my belief that I
could sell my books, and that I could fulfil my ambition to be a published
author.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps not exactly the most grammatically correct sentence
ever written. But as I sat in that crowded room, the message was loud and
clear. For all the years I’d been writing and submitting, I always had this impending
sense of doom once the manuscript was posted off. I was, I realized,
anticipating a rejection. Every time. I expected it because that’s what I’d
always received. Never did I think, “What I want from this submission is the
opportunity for revisions.” Or, “What I want is the editor to love this story.”
Instead, I’d have this internal monologue going on, insisting, “What I don’t
want is a rejection.” Or, “I don’t want to get that dreaded letter in the
mail.” In a way, I was pre-empting my fate.</span></div>
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started entering contests and did it with a different mindset. Every time I
sent off a contest entry I wrote down what I wanted - which was to place in that
contest because the editor for the line I was targeting was the final judge.
And it worked. I got the editorial request and a within two years had sold my
first book. </span></div>
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the craft of writing, I could go to conferences and workshops, I could invest
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it? Suddenly, I was no longer in the dark – I had a plan and a purpose. So
definitely learn the craft, and attend conferences and network with other writers
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giveaway of my January release, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Made For
Marriage</b> from Harlequin Special Edition. I also have giveaways right across
my blog tour, and a grand prize of a $50.00 Amazon voucher and for those you
like a little bling, a fabulous silver Pandora Bracelet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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stunning American riding instructor made him feel. And he soon learned that
there was more to Callie than her smarts, sass and fire: a shattered heart that
threatened to splinter even further. Could he make her see that he—and his
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You have until February 10th to write a mind-blowing two paragraph blurb. If you're chosen by Assistant Editor, Flo Nicholl, you'll be pitching on March 1st and you'll need to have a fabulous partial manuscript to hand over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In other news, you can download <a href="http://www.nicolamarsh.com/">Nicola Marsh's</a> special ops short story TAG TEAM for <strong>FREE</strong> from Amazon at the moment. Just click <a href="http://nicolamarsh.blogspot.com/2012/01/free-book.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RomanceRumoursAndRogues+%28Romance%2C+rumours+and+rogues%29">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Also, the fabulous <a href="http://www.lizfielding.com/">Liz Fielding</a> has released a new craft book! <a href="http://lizfielding.blogspot.com/2012/01/liz-fieldings-little-book-of-writing_17.html">Liz Fielding's Little Book of Writing Romance</a> is now available to all aspiring romance writers. Get it <a href="http://lizfielding.blogspot.com/2012/01/liz-fieldings-little-book-of-writing_17.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m not a fan of resolutions. It’s not their fault, they’re a great concept but the New Year has never been a big event for me. I tend to just continue on with whatever goals or aspirations I had in the previous year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That being said, I’ve been reading a new book called <a href="http://hillaryrettig.com/the-7-secrets-of-the-prolific/">The Seven Secrets of the Prolific</a> by <a href="http://hillaryrettig.com/">Hillary Rettig</a>. It’s actually targeted to perfectionist writers and overcoming writing blocks etc but it has some great content that I think any writer would find beneficial. For example, Hillary offers strategies for dealing with rejections and my particular favorite was by Chris Offutt whose goal was a hundred rejections a year (pretty impressive, don’t you think?). And just like that rejection became a cause for celebration for Chris because it brought him that much closer to his goal. I thought that was quite ingenious and a great example of the impact of perception. I don’t know about you but I’d much rather open a bottle of champagne and toast my latest R than curl up in the corner and try to bite anyone who comes too close. Of course, celebrating rejections might feel like you’ve gone too far so instead celebrate the heck out of the submitting. I know I do. Just try and stop me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And speaking of things to celebrate, w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">e’re exactly twelve days into the new year and already exciting opportunities are popping up. VERY exciting opportunities. So hold onto your keyboards for this list:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://jamigold.com/2012/01/its-time-to-pitch-your-shorts/">Pitch Your Shorts</a> – Entangled Publishing has at least SIX editors standing by to acquire at Jami Gold between now and January 16th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=711"><strong>A Study In Recreation: Comparing And Contrasting A Study In Scarlet And A Study In Pink</strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To answer these and other questions, we’re going back to school and do a comparison/contrast of Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, A STUDY IN SCARLET, and the re-imagined “A Study in Pink” from the BBC’s SHERLOCK series, which rewrites Holmes, Watson and Lestade as 21st century sleuths. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because they encompass timeless motifs, mythic elements can add an extra layer of depth to a novel, whether contemporary, historical, paranormal or fantasy. Mythic elements have contributed to the success of many stories from Star Wars and The Princess Bride to O Brother, Where Art Thou, Troy, and Raiders of the Lost Ark trilogy. During this four-week course we'll examine some metaphoric functions that help build emotional resonance and memory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=789">Inside the Criminal Mind</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Lucinda Schroeder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This fascinating class shows writers how to mix true crime stories with fiction writing craft. The result is writing that is realistic yet highly engaging. Students will learn how to create criminal characters that live quietly within the common fabric of society until they pull a trigger, grab a knife or concoct a poison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=800">Novel Perspectives</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Sally J Walker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> Examine your storytelling process from start to finish. Whether you are a total newbie or an author of 30 novels, you can find tricks and processes that will challenge and freshen your productivity. No one wants to be a forgettable copycat. A change of approach to every aspect of your fiction writing may just be the spark you need at this moment in time. Take the journey will Sally Walker in examining ten steps in creativity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=794">Now That You’ve Nano’d, Now What?</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Todd Stone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Triage and 7 Revision Passes strategy for Nano--or for anyone who's ready to revise. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make the most of the 50k words you wrote in NaNoWriMo--or any draft manuscript you have--with the most comprehensive revision system available. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1341">Put Your Prose On A Diet</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> MM the Queen of English</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> Do you love words? to a fault? Do you believe the more words in your manuscript the merrier? Does your writing show your philosophy that if one adjective is good, then five are even better? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Okay, so you’re going to suck it up and cut the fat out of your baby. In this four-week workshop, MM the Queen of English will give you ways to do that without too much pain and agony. Trust the Queen, it’s so much easier trimming your bloated prose than your bloated tummy. She knows first-hand of what she speaks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you complete all of your homework, the Queen will line edit 1,000 words of your writing. That’s your reward for all that cutting you’re going to do during this month-long workshop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1145">Silencing Your Inner Saboteur</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Sherry Peters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> "Silencing your Inner Saboteur" is designed for writers of all stages in their writing career. In this workshop, writers will identify the voice of the saboteur, recognize the tricks it uses to keep them from achieving their goals, and how to win the battle against it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1061">The Seven Secrets of the Prolific: How to Overcome Procrastination, Perfectionism and Writer’s Block</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Hillary Rettig</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> Secrets of the Prolific: How to Overcome Procrastination, Perfectionism and Writer’s Block will forever change your relationship with your writing. People suffering from procrastination or a block often think they’re lazy, undisciplined, or otherwise lacking, but they really aren’t lacking at all: they are merely constrained from using their creativity and power. Liberate yourself from those constraints and you will see your energy, discipline, commitment, etc., “magically” reappear – and your writing take off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1004">Weapons Violence and Wounds</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Roy Miller</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Conflict is the essence of story-telling. Violence is the rawest and most visceral form of conflict. Rory Miller, former Corrections Officer, Tactical Team leader and Contractor/Adviser in Iraq will help you get the details right. The class will cover the context-- the who and why of violence-- as well as the nuts and bolts of chaos, damage and pain. You'll get a taste of violence from the technical to the spiritual and understanding from the precursors to the aftermath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=983">What Does Nora Roberts Know That You Don’t?</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Carol Hughes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What does Nora Roberts, Stephen King, George Lucas and all of those other blockbuster creators know about writing that makes them the mega stars that they are?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Learn about the 18 scenes that every story contains, no matter its length or genre. Find out how to identify your character's mental gender and what impact that has upon readers. Discover how your character's arc drives your story and how your story drives your character's arc. Learn the four throughlines of every story and how to weave them together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1319">World Building 101</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Karina Fabian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> Want to create a detailed believable world for your stories, but don't know where to start? Worldbuilding 101 will challenge you to examine the major aspects of your world, from geology to culture, and how it applies to your story. This is a fun class of brainstorming. Participation, side comments, and kibitzing highly encouraged!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=656">World Building in Science fiction and Fantasy</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Christine Amsden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> With special emphasis on the concerns inherent in writing science fiction and fantasy, we’ll delve into such topics as where/how to begin a story, relevant description, and common beginner mistakes. There will be weekly writing assignments and peer review is expected. This workshop was designed with beginner and intermediate writers in mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=848">Writing A Short Story For Anthology Call Out</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Louisa Bacio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> Beginning writers are often told to: “Write the story you want to read, not what someone else might want to see.” This class, instead, deals with catering a short story specifically to a publisher’s request for submissions. Regularly, editors and publishers list upcoming anthologies and the types of stories they’re looking to include. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The course will explore current call-outs, and students will be encouraged to write specifically for one anthology and to submit the work at the end of the course. Basic crafting of a short story, such as development, characterization, plot structure & dialogue also will be covered. Since most short stories fall within 2,500 to 5,000 words, we’ll also look at ways to making word choice count and the editing process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=989">Writing The YA Paranormal</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> June Diehl</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> In this workshop we’ll cover: What is a YA paranormal? What is the same or different that adult paranormals? What subjects might you write about? How not to be preachy, but still open up discussion about your theme(s). How to pick ages for your young characters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=947">Spice It Up, Creativity From the Kitchen</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Joni Fisher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 2 – February 19, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> There's nothing worse than bland-as-oatmeal writing that doesn't evoke passion, laughter, anger, love…some kind of emotion from your reader. Story tellers who don't elicit emotion won't gain an avid readership. It's that simple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you've struggled, wondering how you can get your writing to sparkle like a new penny, or a just cleaned window, learn to see everything as a metaphor for your writing. Start by looking in your spice cabinet, or your herb garden with a fresh perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/">Crafting Memorable Dialogue</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Joni Fisher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 5 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This workshop three-week workshop is designed for fiction writers, college age or above, who have completed a first draft of a novel. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Identify the purposes and limitations of dialogue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Infuse dialogue with conflict. Make each conversation matter. One acting technique and nine elements show how to enliven any dialogue ranging from polite debates to violent confrontations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Construct dialogue with depth of meaning that flows at two levels. Fine tune dialogue to create suspense and raise questions in the reader’s mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Transform predictable exchanges into memorable, fresh dialogue using a simple creativity technique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Craft believable, dynamic conversations that cut to the chase. Apply the less-is-more adage to dialogue. Learn when to summarize and use fragment quotes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Talk the talk. Individualize characters through dialogue using any of eleven revealing markers. See how to conduct field research for dialogue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Apply the stimulus/response pattern to maintain clarity of action in a scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Use dialogue tags, action tags and thought tags to show character’s goals, motivations and conflicts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Format and punctuate dialogue properly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">***This workshop is limited to 45 students. The first 30 students to register will get a free critique on the first 30 pages of their WIP. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/">Examining Online Media: How to build Your Audience Before Your Book is Sold</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Pat Hauldren</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 5 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This class will examine how to write for online media such as Examiner, Demand Studios, Suite 101, eHow, etc., to build a writer’s platform to help the author get published. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We will examine the benefits for writers, especially for those who write fiction, what skills are needed, where to find the media, and how to get started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/">Hook, Line, and Sinker: Fishing for a Publisher With Your Best Opening and Follow-up</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Jeannie Eddy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 5 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Want an editor or agent to want to read your book? You have to write a great hook to drag them into the story, so they want to find out what happens. Your hook should inform, inspire and interest your readers – no matter who they are. You can use the hook as your pitch, using it at pitch sessions or conferences or wherever you happen to run into your dream editor/agent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In this class, we’ll explore what a hook is, what it should say and how to write one. And to make it even better, we’re going to work on each student’s hook in class, and help them carry that hook further into the book, to make your first chapter your “money” chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/">Peeling Yourself Off the Wall: 20 Ways to Duck the Writer’s Block Bullet</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Beth Daniels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 5 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This workshop is for anyone interested in ways to slough past the parts where our imagination fails to go, through the times when our Muse heads for the Caribbean and leaves us to fend for ourselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/">Write SEX: Defining Erotica</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Sascha Illyvich</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 5 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sascha Illyvich, with the help of M Christian, Oceania, Jean Marie Stine, Ralph Greco, Deborah Riley Magnus and Thomas Roche, we are going to explore the daunting aspects of erotica in all its forms. Once a week we’ll discuss every aspect of writing sexy fiction from what makes a story erotic even if there is little to no sex involved. Writers of all genres will come away with writing tips that will benefit their careers. We’ll cover author marketing, what defines a story as erotic, things new writers need to consider and the business angle of writing erotica. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1100">Recipe For A Multi-Layered Novel</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Caroline Clemmons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 9 – 15, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> Your novel must contain multiple layers blended together in one masterful tale. Isn’t this what we all want for our writing? Whatever the genre or sub genre, we crave a perfect end result. Regardless of your genre, we’ll talk about some of the ways in which a writer can layer a novel. The tools you have are your words. How you use them determines your result. Do you want a towering epic skyscraper like Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander or do plan a short cozy bungalow for Harlequin Presents? Each of you has the gift to create the world you choose. You alone can unleash the phenomenal power lurking in your subconscious. And, yes, THE POWER IS THERE whether you unleash it or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=933">Scene and Sequel</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Bonnie Edwards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 9 – 15, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do you fly into the mist of a new story without a plot? A strong grasp of Scene and Sequel will make your second draft stronger and your revisions easier. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Does your story fizzle out by the end of Chapter whatever? Scene and Sequel can point the way ahead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Applying scene and sequel to your work is one of the most versatile tools in your writer’s toolkit. This is storytelling in its basic form: it improves pacing, plot, how you reveal character and can tighten those dreaded sagging middles. Combine this with Stimulus and Response (an upcoming workshop) and you’ll find new ways to make your stories shine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1078">Legalese For Writers</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Kris McConville</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 9 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> In this workshop, Kris McConville will dispel the myths of lawyers shown on TV and movies and by the end of the workshop, writers will be able to accurately portray a lawyer in a manuscript; whether it be a main character or a secondary character involved in a subplot. Writers will learn a basic knowledge of the ins and outs of the legal system; different types of lawyers and their specialties; the difference between civil and criminal proceedings; and the basic knowledge of people involved with cases from court clerks to expert witness to juries. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=963"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Action-Adventure and the NYT List: What Makes a Steve Berry Best Seller Tick</strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Beth Daniels</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 9 – February 5, 2012 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> A</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> look at what makes a Steve Berry tale tick is well worth the effort, whether your goal is to land a spot on the NYT list or merely improve the sales potential of your novel. To make it easy to find a title to use as our textbook (via library or bookstore), we’ll be working with THE ALEXANDRIA LINK, copyright 2007. It’s 499 pages long, which means we’re taking 4-weeks to read, study, evaluate, and do a bit of plot-wise emulating along the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=795">Knights Templar: Fact or Fiction</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Jody Allen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 9 – February 5, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> The Warrior Monks of the Crusades have become a fascinating study in myth and legend but what about the facts? We know they were the world's first bankers creating the first traveler's check system, and were probably the world's first Special Forces warriors. This class will explore who they were and the structure of the order (military and religious) how they lived, their history as the Church's first warrior monks (with special privileges granted by the Papacy) with a mission to protect the crusading pilgrims in the Holy Lands (Outremer). Who were their competitors (Hospitallers and Teutonic knights)?...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1085">WordPress for Advanced Users</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Pepper O’Neal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 9 – February 5, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> Now that you have your website or blog set up, it’s time to get creative. This course will focus on advanced customizing of WordPress sites. It will include: troubleshooting your site when it crashes, creating custom themes and child themes, allowing users, allowing subscribers, importing and exporting content from different sources, creating user-friendly permalinks, search engine optimization, using the WordPress community forum, and creating a webhost server on your home computer that is not connected to the internet so that you can test ideas in a risk-free environment. The class will last four weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.writersonlineclasses.com/?page_id=711">Layering – It’s not Just for Cakes!</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Chris Redding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 15 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How to start with a page of dialogue and build a scene, adding setting, emotion, action. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In this 2-week class, you will start with two pages of dialogue and transform it into a fully functioning scene. By adding each element of what needs to go into a story individually, you will see how it all makes the whole. You will also be able to add all the elements seamlessly, including description and character emotions. Instead of deconstructing a scene, you will be constructing a scene from the ground up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1346">Writing Interactive Fiction</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Mima</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 16 – 22, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> This workshop is a 3-day brainstorming and how-to guide on interactive fiction. This genre was made famous by the Choose Your Own Adventure series in the 80's and is enjoying a renaissance, including an open call at Carina. Plotting tips, discussion of choice types, and working with multiple endings will be shared on Day 1. Pitfalls and organizational nitty gritty will be covered on Day 2. Day 3 is a shared brainstorming session where you can begin analyzing your story thread ideas to balance the plot and clarify the main character. All sub-genre writers welcome including non-romance. Not recommended for novice writers or those ardently opposed to plotting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=422">Me & Chi: Increase Your Creativity and Health with Tai Chi and Meditation For Writers</a></strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Pat Hauldren</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 16 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> At the end of this workshop, you will be meditating and moving your way to a healthier muse, body, and mind. The audience for this workshop are writers who want to improve mind, body, and muse without breaking a leg, breaking a sweat, or breaking the bank. There is no pre-requisite for this workshop except a desire to become more creative and healthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=422"><strong>Shattering the Mirror of Your Character: How To Use Backstory Effectively</strong> </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Theresa Meyers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 16 – 29, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> We work so hard to make our characters three dimensional, but what without giving in to the temptation to do huge amounts of backstory dumping into our stories, how do we get it across? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In this course you’ll:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Discover when and how to use backstory to improve pacing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Learn techniques for interweaving backstory with action, inner thought and dialog</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Find ways to make your characters actions and reactions match with backstory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Learn why backstory is better in small bits and how to pick out what matters and what doesn't in your character's backstory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.occrwa.org/onlineclassJan12.html"><strong>Going the Distance: Goal Setting and Time Management for the Writer</strong> </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Kitty Bucholtz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 16 – February 12, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wherever you are in your career, time management is often one of the biggest challenges. Every New Year’s Eve, as the fireworks explode, we try to figure out how to make our goals into our reality. But what will work for you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In this class, you will be presented with a variety of ways to look at goal setting and time management specifically designed for the writer. Whether you are a plotter or a pantster, this interactive course will help you design a game plan that will work for you. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1123">Writing Steamy Sex Scenes: How to Leave Your Readers Begging For More</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Suzanne Rock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 16 – February 12, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> Writing a good sex scene takes hard work. If an author isn’t careful, he or she can be caught up in clichés and euphemisms, both of which can detach the reader from the story. By contrast, a great sex scene can give the reader new insight into the characters and their relationship, as well as further the plot or expand a theme. In this course we will focus on the key elements that make a sex scene memorable and learn how to use writing tools such as prose, scenery, dialogue, and point-of-view to create scenes that both you and your readers will love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=964">Recreating Magic: Remaking An Old Staple in Kate Griffin’s Matthew Swift Series</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Beth Daniels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 23 – February 9, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Does </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the magic in a modern story need to be the same that was practiced by Merlin or Dumbledore, by Morgan Le Fay or Lord Voldemort? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you answered yes, it simply means you haven’t encountered the urban magic of Kate Griffin’s world in her Matthew Swift series. Here magic no longer comes from the Earth, from growing things, animals, stones, and weather – it comes from the evolved world, from telephones, trains, cars, rubbish, graffiti, and electricity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That’s not all this workshop focuses on though. Though we’ll look at how intricately woven and well constructed Griffin has made Swift’s world over four weeks time, using each of the first three Matthew Swift books, the second goal is to study Griffin’s work for craft clues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1317"><strong>Short Story Structure From Concept to Upload Five Easy Steps to Creating a Short Story People</strong> <strong>Will Read</strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Jodi Henley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 30 – February 5, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do you write stories people want to read? Join Jodi Henley in an intensive 14 day workshop designed to get you from concept to download in a supportive, feedback heavy format.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=965">And With a Compositional Flourish… Using Rhetorical Devises to Improve Your Prose</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Beth Daniels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 30 – February 26, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To paraphrase Cole Porter, advanced speech geeks do it, presidents and lawyer type creeps do it, Aristole and the Greeks do’d it, let’s do it, let’s…well, Cole says “let’s fall in love” but we’ll change that to “let’s write with flare.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In other words, let’s use the same compositional and speech tactics that have been getting results for over a thousand years. The things I term compositional flourishes. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Some of them we’re all probably familiar with…onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition, metaphor, simile, and of course the romance writer’s constant companion, euphemism. But how can we direct these specifically toward writing scenes fraught with sexual tension, love scenes, and erotica? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That’s what this workshop is all about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=784"><strong>Show And Tell:</strong> <strong>An Interactive Workshop</strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Shannon Donnelly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 30 – February 26, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Show, don't Tell" is a cliché that has almost lost its meaning. But both showing and telling are valuable tools for any writer--writers need both narrative passages as well as dramatic scenes, so each has its own place within any writer's skill set. In this workshop, we'll use writing examples to figure out the truth hidden in this tired phrase. And how "show, don't tell" really means "show more with dramatic scenes, and tell only when you need to move the story along". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=965">Some Like It Hot: Writing the Erotic Romance</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Louisa Bacio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 30 – February 26, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let’s talk about sex. Whether you’re writing a short story, novella or a full-length novel, an erotic thriller, paranormal or historical romance, the basics of the Erotic Romance remain the same: it’s all about plot and keeping it hot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The workshop will cover the basics of characterization and motivation, and then delve into the heart: The sex scene(s). When writing about the physical aspects of love, it takes more than the cliché of “putting tab A into slot B.” The love scenes need to come organically from the work that’s being created, and the reader needs to believe in the connection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1006">Using Ordinary Know-How In Every Genre</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Kat Duncan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 30 – February 26, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You've heard the old adage "write what you know". But what if you're a housewife with no work experience and your most recent hobby is folding laundry? You know more than you think. You may know how to solve tricky problems, soothe ruffled feathers, keep law and order, monitor sick kids, sympathize over the loss of a pet, or organize a mob of unruly kids at a party. You have goals and aspirations, even if they are just to get through the next holiday dinner. Kat will help you dig deep into your personal skills and pull out every tool you have that can be used in your writing. Not only that, but Kat will help you see how those skills could be applied to every fiction genre from sweet inspirationals to erotic sci-fi. Published examples, plus short exercises and templates support your writing goals for the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1320">World Building 201</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Karina Fabian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 30 – February 26, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">**NOTE** Need to have taken Worldbuilding 101 or have an established world!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let’s take it up a notch! This forum class will help you apply your world to your story, explore it in more depth. We’ll create some simple supporting documents, play with scenes, and take your world to the next story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=1023">Writing the Fiction Synopsis</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Instructor:</strong> Pam McCutcheon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dates:</strong> January 30 – February 26, 2012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Course Description: </strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Most writers hate writing synopses, and no wonder. After you've agonized over several hundred pages to make your prose absolutely perfect, how could you possibly distill that down to a measly ten or twenty pages? Or, worse yet, one or two? By the time you've written the book, everything seems important, and it's difficult to know what to put in and what to leave out. To help with that problem, Pam McCutcheon will show you the step by step approach she developed, which is also detailed in her popular book, WRITING THE FICTION SYNOPSIS, from Gryphon Books for Writers. Classes will include instruction, homework assignments, and some review of homework.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Writing!</span><br />
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</div>Lacey Devlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05716109142743069204noreply@blogger.com6