StoryCraft 1: Storytelling Basics

Art, Business, and Craft of writing and publishing fiction

What you'll learn
Determine if traditional, independent, or hybrid publishing is best for your writing career
Craft a solid structure for your novel
Learn and implement "The Three Cs" of storytelling
Create attention-getting dialogue, description, and pacing
Requirements
No prior writing or publishing experience needed for the course, but students are expected to have read novels in their genre.
Description
Your story matters. We'll help you tell it.
This isn't a "course."
This isn't a "class."
This is spending time with two published authors who talk about everything they'd wished someone had told them before they ever wrote a single word . . .
"Gone are the days when an editor at a major house would take you under their wing and handle everything for you. Those days are mythic now, they're long gone."
~
Joseph Nassise, award-winning, NYT Bestselling author of more than 50 novels
Are you ready for the modern era of publishing?
Write the novel of your dreams with the help of two publishing veterans!
Are literary agents rejecting your novel . . . if they bother to respond at all?
Are your sales on Amazon and other indie channels not what you'd expected?
Have you sold one or more books to a traditional publisher, but discovered there is more about the business that no one ever told you?
What you'll
accomplish
:
improve your storytelling with the help of bestselling and award-winning authors
understand the inside reality of traditional publishing from actual victories (and lessons learned!) in the industry
determine if you are best served becoming an indie, trad, or hybrid author
Joseph Nassise and Tom Leveen have more than forty years of combined writing and publishing experience between them, with multiple New York Times and USA Today bestsellers plus four nominations for the Bram Stoker Award.
They have worked with many of the largest New York publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperVoyager, Tor Books, Gallery, and Harlequin/Gold Eagle, and have independently published a wide variety of titles under their own imprints. They have also worked for comic companies like Image Comics (
Spawn
) and Arcana Comics (
Candice Crowe
), and contributed writing for role-playing game settings such BattleTech, Shadowrun, and Wraith: The Oblivion.
Together, they're going to teach you everything you need to know to write and sell a novel in today's competitive market!
Who this course is for:
The course is designed for writers who are serious about being a professional novelist, whether independently or seeking literary representation.



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