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January 18, 2018
Oakland, CA
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| | I'm writing to you from Saudi Arabia, right before teaching Day 5 of 5 on "Plan Your Novel."
What an adventure!
I'll share more when I get home.
Suffice it to say, living and working in a foreign country has been enlightening. I've loved hearing my students' stories as they grow them. I am honored to be supporting them in their writer's adventure.
What is your adventure? What is next for you? I'd love to hear. Hit reply and let me know.
(Image is of Ithra, where I've been teaching this past week.) |
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When: February 18, 2019, 9 am - 12 noon Where: San Francisco's Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Hotel
Now enrolling:
As I mentioned above, I'm teaching a Masterclass on crafting compelling characters soon.
The Master Classes are sponsored by the nonprofit San Francisco Writers Foundation, not the conference per se. So if you’re not joining the conference, you can still sign up for any of the Master Classes.
Here are the details. Hope you can join us!
Time: Monday, February 18, 2019, 9am – 12noon
Location: Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Hotel
Craft Compelling Characters: Tips for Writing and Editing
Instructor: Beth Barany
Our job as novelists is to create characters that our readers love. Or love to hate. Or want to be. Or want to jump into bed with. Our characters need to feel real, engaging, and compelling, not just our main characters, but our secondary characters and villains too.
But how do you actually do that?
Beth Barany covers how to build your characters from inside out, using such tools as Goal, Motivation, Conflict, and Strengths. Come prepared to write and brainstorm.
In this hands-on masterclass, we also go beyond the standard tools to cover:
- Identity and Belief Shifts
- Turning Point Backstory as it relates to your character’s driving core identity
- Your Character’s Emotional Palette
- World Building as it relates to the character
- Your Character’s Archetype and Function in the story
Whether you’re a first-time novelist or an experienced one, you’ll come away from this workshop with:
- detailed character sketches for your next novel or novella
- a deeper understanding of how to edit your characters
- clarity on your character’s core transformation from begin to end of your story
- tips on how to apply these tools in the planning and editing stage
- tools you can use again and again
Hit reply me if you have any questions.
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| | Have a happy and creative week! Happy writing!
Best,
Beth
P.S. Plan Your Novel Like A Pro was created by Ezra and I to help writers plan their novels in a way that is right for them. Part roadmap, part creative inspiration, this book is designed to get you writing your novel.
Request!
For our promo campaign that starts March 1st, I'm looking for bloggers and podcasters who would like to interview us soon (or just one of us), and/or review our book, Plan Your Novel Like A Pro. If that's you, hit reply and I'll send you our press kit and schedule request. Thanks!
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| 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.
*Comes with a bonus workbook and membership into Fellowship of the Pen, our community of active writers. (And other goodies!)
"I started reading it, and immediately stopped and started applying their steps to a novel I was prepared to throw away because I'd been unable to think of a way to revise it and make it meaningful. I'm now about 30K into the rewrite of that novel!
As an added bonus, there is a workbook you can use alongside the book to make the process even easier!" -- Ann Shannon
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You may share this content intact and with no changes with this attribution:
c. 2006-2018 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.
Want a course to help you prepare to write your novel? Check out 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.
Check out her Henrietta series here (YA Fantasy) and her Touchstone series here (Fantasy/Paranormal Romance).
beth@bethbarany.com
Barany School of Fiction
Writer's Fun Zone blog
Photo Credit: by c. 2018 Arianna Golden
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