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| A Flexible Roadmap to Write Your Novel
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September 20, 2019
Oakland, CA
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| | | As you read this, Ezra and I are barreling down the highway from the San Francisco Bay Area to Long Beach, in the Los Angeles area.
And today is his birthday and he's turning 50!
Help me celebrate is birthday! Here's his birthday wish!
Also posted on Facebook here:
"Coming soon, new crime-fighting TV show, 'Barany 5-0.'
I'm turning 50 years old this Friday and to celebrate, Beth Barany and I will be driving to a Long Beach event "Men of Mystery," an event where mystery authors present their newest book.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to call your local library and request they get my thriller:
Title: Bullets Aren't Kosher
Author: Ezra Barany
ISBN #: 978-1944841232
Find your local library's contact info here:
https://www.worldcat.org/libraries
That's how to participate in 'Barany 5-0.'
When your fellow officer says they caught the criminal, you can say, 'Book 'em.' "
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| A Flexible Roadmap to Write Your Novel
Is it your passion to write a novel but don’t know where to begin?
Writing a novel is a huge scary endeavor — yet hundreds and thousands and millions of people have done it.
Do you wish there was a roadmap that could tell you how to get from here to there, but still had room for side trips?
Yes, a flexible roadmap -- the bendy kind!
There are many ways to get to The End, but you only need to find one route that works for you.
But how do you know what is the best way to write a novel -- for you?
Why, you experiment and play, test and noodle around.
Writers, most of us anyway, don’t just jump into writing a novel — boom — like jumping into the deep end of the pool.
Writers wade in. They first prepare, plan, or prep -- a very important stage.
You too can plan your novel before you write it. That's like studying the map and planning your route before you drive cross-country.
You don't have to go it alone, though.
You can get help from experienced teachers and writers.
Come this way!
Enter the Big Tent of planning and writing your novel with us!
We will help you plan and write your novel with clarity, confidence, and that kind of excitement-slash-trepidation that comes with starting something new.
Join us for our course that starts Oct. 1st.
Link: https://school.bethbarany.com/p/plan-your-novel-30-day-challenge-oct-2019
Essentially, we walk you through planning your novel in October and guide you through the writing in November.
This course is for you if you want to write:
— a spy novel
— a romance
— a mystery, thriller, or suspense
— a historical novel
— a science fiction, fantasy, or a mash-up of several genres
This course is for you, if you're an experienced writer or ambitious writer who wants to plan your novel in an organic or step-by-step way, or you're a beginner and are ready to start the adventure of writing a novel.
This class is good for you if:
-- You have never written a novel, and have always wanted to, and still feel lost on how to go from brilliant idea to The End. You'll be stretched in new and different ways.
-- You're an experienced novelist, with 1 or 2 completed or partially completed novels under your bed. You may find this course structured in a way that's new to you and yet familiar.
-- You have 3 or more unfinished novels sitting in a drawer, and always hit that sagging middle and lose focus or lose interest. This course will help you dream up exciting ways to torture, I mean challenge, your characters all the way to the resolution of the story.
We start Oct. 1st. And have 5 places left!
For more information and to register, go here:
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| | Good News! Community Kudos!
I'm starting a new feature of sharing good news and celebrations by our newsletter subscribers, blog contributors, and students and co-teachers at Barany School of Fiction.
So -- send me your news so I can include it in our weekly Friday newsletter.
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Congrats to Fellowship of the Pen members!
On September 21, 2019, Nichole Beamer will release her very first eBook, Inner Beauty: A Guided Story to Help You Discover Magic in the Mundane. Join her in celebration at this Facebook event here:
She says: "It's a short story about Inner Beauty written in a second-person guided narrative. It'll be my very first publication and I'm super pumped to finally take the leap!"
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"The skies have gone rogue. Space can't be tamed. And magic is a law unto itself."
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Reminder: Send me your news so I can include it in our weekly Friday newsletter. Just hit reply and let me know!
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| | | Upcoming Workshop
“Use Fiction Tools to Jazz Up Your Nonfiction Book”
Thursday, September 26, 2019, 1-7pm: I’ll be presenting at the mini-conference “Getting Known as an Authority in Your Field: Writing Your Book” on how to “Use Fiction Tools to Jazz Up Your Nonfiction Book” for Women in Consulting.
Location: College of San Mateo.
Registration is now open. More information here: https://wiconsult.org/write-your-book.
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More upcoming events and workshops are listed here. |
| | Have a happy and creative week! Happy writing!
Best,
Beth
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On the Writer's Fun Zone blog this week: ♥
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| NEWEST BOOK! Plan Your Novel Like A Pro
This book will help you get excited to plan your novel. The tools shared here are designed to spark your muse and give you confidence when you sit down to write your story. Plan Your Novel Like A Pro: And Have Fun Doing It! is for organic writers and pansters who want a roadmap to follow, so that they can let their creativity loose.
** Is this you? => Are you a podcaster or blogger and would like to feature PLAN YOUR NOVEL LIKE A PRO on your channel? Review copies available. Please hit reply and let me know. Thanks!
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Welcome!
You may share this content intact and with no changes with this attribution:
BTW, I'm a working novelist too, with two series published in two genres, and more on the way. :)
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| | ABOUT BETH BARANY
Beth Barany is creativity coach for writers, a teacher, workshop facilitator, and speaker, who helps fiction writers experience clarity, so that they can write and polish their novels, and proudly publish them to the delight of their readers.
Owner of the Barany School of Fiction, an online training hub, Beth takes great interest in how humans learn, create, and grow, and includes all her students’ life experiences, including the ancestors, into the moment.
Want a course to help you prepare to write your novel? Discover the comprehensive Plan Your Novel course here, co-taught with award-winning, bestselling thriller author, Ezra Barany.
She's also an award-winning novelist and writes magical tales of romance, adventure, and mystery to empower women and girls to be the heroes in their own lives.
beth@bethbarany.com
Barany School of Fiction
Writer's Fun Zone blog
Photo Credit: by c. 2018 Ezra Barany
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