COMING THIS FALL/WINTER:
- Triple Threat Scene Writing: Action, Choreography, Physicality
- Oscar Worthy Characters: Writing multidimensional character and emotion using the Method
- Fighting in fiction: writing action/fight choreography with realistic precision and bite
- Micro-editing
- Secrets to writing bestselling YA fiction
- Directing Dialogue
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From MADNESS to Method: Out-of-your-chair acting techniques to invigorate your writing and make your characters Oscar worthy!
Instructor: Tiffany Lawson Inman
Fee: $30
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.
If we held an Academy Awards for the characters in our novels, would yours be a highly acclaimed nominee? Polish those shoes and spray on a sunny tan. After this workshop your characters will be hitting the red carpet!
From Madness to Method uses the father of all acting techniques, The Method Technique. Writers learn how to create the most real of moments. These exercises push the writer to enhance their emotional repertoire.
This class is for all genres, all levels of writers. The Method Technique will enable your story to live and breathe beyond the page.
From Madness to Method includes lectures, out-of-your-chair exercises, examples from multiple genres, and interviews with NYT bestsellers.
You will learn how to:
- Access your sense memories to fuel character emotion on the page
- Turn reality into fiction by awakening your innermost observational skills
- Thrust your story forward by using every facet of character
- Manage that pesky inner monologue and backstory
- Increase your character’s emotional authenticity
- Write with your scars
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77 Secrets To Writing Young Adult Fiction That Sells
Instructor: Tiffany Lawson Inman
Rip the lid off Bestselling YA Fiction! Ever wonder why adult Fiction authors like Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Harlan Coben, John Grisham, and Candace Bushnell are now pushing out YA series by the shelf-ful? By the download!
Why?
Because that’s where the readers are! But HOW are they doing it? What do they know that you don’t? Push your YA novel to the top of the pile with high-powered writing craft and concepts. Write harder than you ever have before and blow the ever growing competition out of the YA pool!
Make sure you are pushing the Bestselling Young Adult Fiction envelope with your writing craft and story. Agents want extraordinary voice, extraordinary story, extraordinary character.
Are you giving it to them?
No matter which YA sub-genre you write, including, Paranormal, Contemporary, Dystopian, Historical, Horror, Scifi, Fantasy, Mystery, YA writing has to be better than great to get published. YA writing has to be better than great to rise to the top of the ever increasing competition.
Course Topics:
- Writer’s-eyes-only Interviews with bestselling YA authors, YA super agents, YA debut authors
- Dissecting Top Ten YA fiction from 2010/11 for a prime learning experience, exposing layers of writing craft that will get you sold.
- Understanding Highs and Lows of the emotional teeter-totter underlying your character motivations
- Focus your authentic YA voice: dialogue, framework, phrasing – sometimes the only thing between you and the top of the pile.
- Talk the talk and walk the walk: solid characters/ characterization from protagonist to the neighbor kid working the counter at the pizza joint
- Learning Do’s and Don’ts of writing warm n’fuzzy and hot n’steamy
- Maneuvering between the delicate fibers of teenagers and their guardians
- Pulling your reader’s psychological strings and manipulating the cinematography behind your POV’s lens
There will be 2 lectures each week. Class members may be active or lurk and learn. Class members are strongly encouraged to use this course to edit their current manuscript, or they may write fresh for each assignment.
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An Actor’s Take On Writing Physicality,Choreography,and Action
Instructor: Tiffany Lawson Inman
Topics covered in this course:
- Physical. Learn how to brawl on the page from a certified Stage Combatant.
- Verbal. Words can create action stronger than fists.
- Emphasize personality, relationship, and motivation through cause/effect relationships
- Spotlight on the Backdrop: Using props and setting to keep your story active and pace moving
- Physicality: Write your character deeper into conflict, with a flick of the wrist, and a punch of emotion.
*****Please note, these lectures and assignments apply to all genres.
Class members may be active or lurk and learn. Class members are strongly encouraged to use this course to edit their current manuscript, or they may write fresh for each assignment.
Don’t have time to take a class? Need your manuscript edited by a professional?
