Hello friends!
While the regular newsletter is and always will be free, I wanted to also provide some additional goodies for paid subscribers. Writing classes are some of those goodies! So if you’re a paid subscriber, here’s what you have access to:
Reaching the Pedals: Writing Middle Grade Characters that Drive the Plot
It’s hard to feel like you have control over anything at all when you’re in middle school. Seems less like you making life happen than life happening to you. Yet as writers we’re told that our characters need to be proactive and impact the plot. (And maybe character comes much more naturally to some of us than plot does…) So what’s the missing connection here? How do we write those proactive, strong-voiced middle grade characters that make shirt happen and drive the plot? Can even shy, withdrawn characters articulate something as wibbly wobbly as story structure? (You know it.) Come learn how character creation can secretly be plot development! While the focus and examples will be on middle grade, the principles can apply to any genre or age category. Get in writers, we’re going plotting!
Diamonds in the Rough: Revising for Poetic, Sparkling Prose
So you've got a first draft...now what? This class will take you step-by-step down the revision hierarchy, with a particular focus on developing your prose to make it sparkling, unique, and poetic. From large-scale to small, we'll discuss how to revise for solid, load-bearing story structure all the way down to gorgeous, poetic sentences that shine. Learn the most effective tools of the poet’s trade, why they’re not as scary or intimidating as you might think, and how to use them to set your prose above the rest.