What's New!I'm doing a Webinar Plot Workshop hosted by Writers Digest University tomorrow.Begin the new season with a new vision of the plot and structure of your story... from the comfort of your own home. Click on your computer. Join me in real time for this once only (though you'll receive a link w/ video files of the workshop you can revisit as often as you like) live plot workshop.Change how you feel about plot. Learn how to use plot and structure more effectively. See your story transform …
How Do You Know When It’s Time to Give Up?
Last week at the Bookshop Santa Cruz launch party for The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories I share 5 Plot Tips to Immediately Improve Your Writing. Right after, we give away a free copy of Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple a friend bought and then passed out raffle tickets for it.The guy who won BBP appears next in a long line of chatty writers awaiting their books to be signed. He tells me how he finished a fantasy novel in 2006 …
PWWorkbook Launch Party Photos
Thanks to Writers' Platform-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan, I have lovely photos to share of both the pre-party and Bookshop Santa Cruz launch party for The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories.Standing room only. Plot Tips shared. Cake devoured. Thanks to all of you who showed up and asked questions and bought books.I add a few photos here and there (more photos on FB both the PW fan page and the Martha Alderson page and on …
Winners of the PWWorkbook Giveaways
The Mini-blog and Twitter Tour / Mega-PWWorkbook Giveaway ran for less than a week and awarded The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories to 15 lucky writers. Congratulations!Thank you everyone for welcoming The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories into the community of writers.For each day's plot tips and to learn the winners:Day 1 and 2 The BookshelfBenefits of Plotting in ScenesDay …
Day 5: Mega-PWWorkbook Giveaway
Today we travel to Jane Friedman: Being human at electric speed. Exploring what it means to be a writer in the digital age, with Jane as our host.The former publisher of Writers Digest writes about herself: "I'm fascinated by the future of media, and how technologies can advance us faster than our hearts can understand. Will we allow the changes to shrink us, make us feel small -- or will be uncover new and better ways of being human."The dramatic action has a profound affect on the protagonist …
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