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So You Want to Be A Fiction Writer? 3 Practices You Need
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| | So you want to be a fiction writer… here are some things you need to know, do, and be…
1. READ
If you want to be any kind of writer, read.
Anything and everything.
Read more on #1 and points 2 and 3 here:
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| | | Book Marketing with Newsletter Swaps by Ezra Barany
A lot of authors think that they need to spend time alone marketing their books to make more sales.
The reality is, if they just have other people with many followers market their books, it’s often easier to make those sales.
The approach in this article is often called OPL.
Read the rest of the post here:
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| | Making Mistakes: Why We Should by Catharine Bramkamp
At Writer's Fun Zone, we welcome back monthly columnist Catharine Bramkamp as she shares with us about “Making Mistakes: Why We Should.”
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I taught a four-week journaling class, and at their request, created a (unplanned) PDF from the slides along with additional material, turning the project around in a couple days.
Read the rest here:
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| | | On May 15, 2018, I'll be at the Fremont Library, Fremont, CA doing a workshop on:
7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel
In this hands-on free workshop, we’ll brainstorm the steps to create your novel—from character development to plot structure to story themes and world building—so you can start writing your novel prepared.
For beginning to advanced writers, especially for pansters, we’ll cover bite-sized exercises to help you stretch your imagination and get excited about the writing process.
This workshop is useful for you if you have never written a novel, have always wanted to, and still feel lost on how to go from brilliant idea to The End, or if you always hit that sagging middle and lose focus or interest. We’ll help you dream up exciting ways to torture, I mean challenge, your characters all the way to the resolution of the story.
Award-winning novelist, Beth Barany is a speaker, teacher, and coach, and co-founder of the Barany School of Fiction, with her husband, also an award-winning author, Ezra Barany. For a free Writer Discovery course, go here: http://bit.ly/WriterDiscoveryFreeMiniCourse.
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 6:00-7:30pm
Where: Fremont Main Library, 2400 Stevenson Blvd., Fremont, CA
More information: http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/friend.cfm?curOrg=ACL&tEvt=5520145&tfPopup=1
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| | Here's to your creativity! Happy writing!
Have a fabulous week!
Best,
PS. Coming soon mid-June... The live workshop intensive for Branding For Novelists (This link goes to the home study/DIY version. The same material will be taught in the live course, with new material, and the ability to get feedback on elements we teach: Author Branding Statement/Tag Line, Author Bio, Reader Profiles, Calls to Action, and more.) Registration opening soon.
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You may share this content intact and with no changes with this attribution:
c. 2007-2018 Beth Barany, Creativity Coach for Writers, www.BethBarany.com
Not sure which program or course is right for you?
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.
She's also a novelist and writes magical tales of romance and adventure to empower women and girls to jump into life with both feet and be the heroes in their own lives.
Check out her Henrietta series here (YA Fantasy) and her Touchstone series here (Fantasy/Paranormal Romance).
Support her mission to empower women and girls with her fiction on Patreon here.
Read her latest book for writers, Twitter for Authors, here.
beth@bethbarany.com
Barany School of Fiction
Writer's Fun Zone blog
Photo Credit: by c. 2018 Ezra Barany
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