What you'll learn
Help you recognize and develop your own innate talents, which, over the course, you will see you have vastly underestimated.
Learn to integrate multiple Literary Devices, absorbing the advice of established authors and editors.
Learn to self-edit professionally, and understand the workings of the pubishing world.
Complete your novel or memoir in a passionate, professional, and persuasive manner, ready for publication.
Requirements
A passionate desire to share your story
Description
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Zora HurstonFire in the Belly: Write to be Read. You are the world's leading authority on your novel or memoir, and you have vastly underestimated your ability to tell a good story. Over 50 sessions, I arrest all the usual suspects (syntax, literary devices, plot, dialogue, publishing, etc.) but more importantly, together we'll infuse your readers with the same passion and purpose that compelled you to write in the first place. Your words are the wings that lift a great story off the page. Other courses may walk you through how to write your story. but why walk when you've got wings?This course is different from others because I am different; my peers in the field often refer to me as the anti-editor. While elites were sipping Chablis at Oxford, I popped open a beer with my orangutans in the jungles of Borneo, or paid a smuggler to get me across the Straits of Singapore at two in the morning, after the gunboats passed, or swam with the Gray Whales and sharks, or.Hemingway said in order to write about life, you have to live life. I can tell a good story because I've lived a good story, and I will help you to do the same. The adventure of your life within a failed or successful marriage can be every bit as intriguing and compelling as fending off pirates in the South China Sea.What's your story? I'm listening.
Overview
Section 1: Lessons
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Piano Tuning and Mastering the art of Procrastination
Lecture 3 Reading and writing: the Spiral of Ying and Yang
Lecture 4 An exercise in evolution
Lecture 5 What's in a name?
Lecture 6 The job of Page One
Lecture 7 Ten paces, turn, and Fire
Lecture 8 The unbearable lightness of adjectives and adverbs
Lecture 9 The Holy Trinity of Trust
Lecture 10 Traditional, Hybrid or self-publishing: What's right for you?
Lecture 11 The imagination muscle and Flipping the meme
Lecture 12 Who did you delegate to tell your Story?
Lecture 13 Attribution: the underrated asset in your arsenal
Lecture 14 "The Rolling Stones are the best Rock Band ever!"
Lecture 15 They're out there. See the Child. Everyone Lies
Lecture 16 Viagra or Ambien
Lecture 17 Bohemian Rhapsody
Lecture 18 Once there was a way to get back home
Lecture 19 How to shoot yourself in the foot
Lecture 20 In the realm of the senses
Lecture 21 "Nothing runs like a deere" Literary devices: Part 1
Lecture 22 ".furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat." Literary devices, part 2
Lecture 23 How to write a book review (and a peek behind the publishing curtain)
Lecture 24 "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a fuck"
Lecture 25 Write drunk, edit sober?
Lecture 26 Blood in the water
Lecture 27 To be or not to be is questionable
Lecture 28 A Star(fish) is born
Lecture 29 Plot vs premise
Lecture 30 Ob-ovus (from the egg) vs mid-story: It's not obvious
Lecture 31 Theme: The me
Lecture 32 The art of the interview
Lecture 33 You are certainly entitled to my opinion
Lecture 34 Lessons in Action
Lecture 35 Masterpiece memoirs Part 1: Tell the story of a lifetime
Lecture 36 Masterpiece Memoirs Part Two: Tell the story of a lifetime
Lecture 37 The secrets of successful self-editing: Part 1
Lecture 38 More secrets of Professional editing: Part 2
Lecture 39 Writer Beat-ups: a code of conduct
Lecture 40 Purple-ing your prose
Lecture 41 Scene vs Situation
Lecture 42 Dynamic Dialogues
Lecture 43 Exclamation Points!!!
Lecture 44 Befriending word-search
Lecture 45 Bookending and Dennouement
Lecture 46 Writers on Writing
Lecture 47 20 titles you can steal, 20 quotes you can't
Lecture 48 Lubrication: Writer exercises
Lecture 49 Works
Lecture 50 Bonus: resources
This course is for beginning writers undertaking for the first time the great campaign of writing a novel or memoir and for those who have written previously and are aware they could be more persuasive and engaging


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