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FICTION WRITING FOR BEGINNERS is an introductory workshop intended to ease newcomers into a comfort zone that will
open them up to listening to feedback. No one can improve as a writer until he/she is willing to hear what industry professionals have to say about
their work. Everyone has a story to tell, some of which could be tomorrow’s best-sellers. Do you have what it takes to sell your manuscripts? All
best-selling authors had to start somewhere; a number of them, in fact, never wrote fiction of any kind prior to retirement. Whether you write
short stories or novels, or have even yet to begin, this workshop provides the direction you’ll need to pursue publication.
Bring a two-page double-spaced sample of your work to class and receive an objective, yet tactful, professional evaluation of your strengths and
weaknesses as a writer, including suggested areas for improvement.
One Session
Saturday
9:00 a.m. - Noon
HOW TO BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR
What does it take to become a published author? Like any other profession, becoming a professional writer requires a career plan. Where should
your initial focus lie to meet your goal of publication? Success as a writer requires far more than just sitting at the keyboard. Learn the keys to
success in today’s competitive publishing industry, including marketing techniques that move you closer to publication. Your manuscript could be
the greatest of its kind ever written, but if you don’t know how to get it into the hands of someone who can buy it, it will never sell. Taught by a
professional editor and internationally published author, HOW TO BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR discloses:
• How to keep your submissions out of the editor’s “slush pile”
• How to overcome "writer's block"
• How to get editors to ask for your submission
• And much, much more!
If you’ve already completed your novel, use what you’ll learn to produce a more marketable rewrite.
One Session
Saturday
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
CREATING YOUR NOVEL
Writing a novel requires an enormous investment of time; however, specific techniques can make the task far more manageable. CREATING
YOUR NOVEL offers a step-by-step methodology to help you produce a marketable first novel. Under the guidance of a professional editor and
internationally published author, you’ll create a cast of characters, formulate a novel outline, decide which point of view and structural form are
most appropriate and develop a specific marketing plan. Demonstrated techniques are easily adaptable to your own work, regardless of your
category of interest. You’ll learn:
• How to create realistic characters
• What is the universal “formula” for a successful first novel
• How to target specific publishers before you even start writing
You’ll meet other local writers with similar interests, pick up valuable pointers, and challenge your imagination as well.
One Session,
Saturday
6 :00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
WRITING YOUR OPENING SCENE targets baby boomers who finally have the available time to pursue their life-long dream of
writing the Great American Novel. It's a hands-on opportunity for them to write in class and receive valuable feedback to help get their novels off to
the best start possible. Writing a marketable novel requires far more than basic writing skills. Like movies, effective novels must be skillfully
directed and be properly focused. New writers are heavily judged by the opening pages of their novels. If a demonstrated understanding of the
necessary components of a marketable first novel is not reflected starting with page one, line one, your novel is likely to be rejected. Here is a
hands-on workshop designed to help you get off to a great start.
You’ll work on the opening page of your novel, receive feedback from the instructor, learn also from the instructor’s feedback to other students, then
rewrite for more feedback. With a strong beginning behind you, the rest of your novel will be far easier to write.
One Session
Saturday
9:00 a.m. - noon
SHORT STORY & NOVEL FEEDBACK
Most short story and novel submissions are rejected within the first few pages, regardless of how many were submitted. Editors rarely read every
word, and rejection slips seldom explain why your manuscript fell short. Here's an opportunity to sit face-to-face with a professional fiction editor
who’s worked with such noted authors as Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block and others as he evaluates your submission. You’ll
be surprised as minor mistakes in your writing, likely the source of manuscript rejection, are constructively pointed out to you. If you prefer not to
have your own writing reviewed, you'll benefit by listening to other critiques.
Discussions include:
• How editors evaluate submissions
• The importance of a strong opening
• Placement of essential manuscript ingredients
Don’t avoid feedback! You’ll be amazed at the degree by which it will improve your writing.
One Session
Sunday
1 :00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The HOW TO BE PUBLISHED workshops are listed in SHAWGUIDES, the industry's most comprehensive listing of writing conferences and
workshops.
They are also listed in THE LITERARY MARKETPLACE, the publishing industry's official directory of professional resources
open them up to listening to feedback. No one can improve as a writer until he/she is willing to hear what industry professionals have to say about
their work. Everyone has a story to tell, some of which could be tomorrow’s best-sellers. Do you have what it takes to sell your manuscripts? All
best-selling authors had to start somewhere; a number of them, in fact, never wrote fiction of any kind prior to retirement. Whether you write
short stories or novels, or have even yet to begin, this workshop provides the direction you’ll need to pursue publication.
Bring a two-page double-spaced sample of your work to class and receive an objective, yet tactful, professional evaluation of your strengths and
weaknesses as a writer, including suggested areas for improvement.
One Session
Saturday
9:00 a.m. - Noon
HOW TO BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR
What does it take to become a published author? Like any other profession, becoming a professional writer requires a career plan. Where should
your initial focus lie to meet your goal of publication? Success as a writer requires far more than just sitting at the keyboard. Learn the keys to
success in today’s competitive publishing industry, including marketing techniques that move you closer to publication. Your manuscript could be
the greatest of its kind ever written, but if you don’t know how to get it into the hands of someone who can buy it, it will never sell. Taught by a
professional editor and internationally published author, HOW TO BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR discloses:
• How to keep your submissions out of the editor’s “slush pile”
• How to overcome "writer's block"
• How to get editors to ask for your submission
• And much, much more!
If you’ve already completed your novel, use what you’ll learn to produce a more marketable rewrite.
One Session
Saturday
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
CREATING YOUR NOVEL
Writing a novel requires an enormous investment of time; however, specific techniques can make the task far more manageable. CREATING
YOUR NOVEL offers a step-by-step methodology to help you produce a marketable first novel. Under the guidance of a professional editor and
internationally published author, you’ll create a cast of characters, formulate a novel outline, decide which point of view and structural form are
most appropriate and develop a specific marketing plan. Demonstrated techniques are easily adaptable to your own work, regardless of your
category of interest. You’ll learn:
• How to create realistic characters
• What is the universal “formula” for a successful first novel
• How to target specific publishers before you even start writing
You’ll meet other local writers with similar interests, pick up valuable pointers, and challenge your imagination as well.
One Session,
Saturday
6 :00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
WRITING YOUR OPENING SCENE targets baby boomers who finally have the available time to pursue their life-long dream of
writing the Great American Novel. It's a hands-on opportunity for them to write in class and receive valuable feedback to help get their novels off to
the best start possible. Writing a marketable novel requires far more than basic writing skills. Like movies, effective novels must be skillfully
directed and be properly focused. New writers are heavily judged by the opening pages of their novels. If a demonstrated understanding of the
necessary components of a marketable first novel is not reflected starting with page one, line one, your novel is likely to be rejected. Here is a
hands-on workshop designed to help you get off to a great start.
You’ll work on the opening page of your novel, receive feedback from the instructor, learn also from the instructor’s feedback to other students, then
rewrite for more feedback. With a strong beginning behind you, the rest of your novel will be far easier to write.
One Session
Saturday
9:00 a.m. - noon
SHORT STORY & NOVEL FEEDBACK
Most short story and novel submissions are rejected within the first few pages, regardless of how many were submitted. Editors rarely read every
word, and rejection slips seldom explain why your manuscript fell short. Here's an opportunity to sit face-to-face with a professional fiction editor
who’s worked with such noted authors as Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block and others as he evaluates your submission. You’ll
be surprised as minor mistakes in your writing, likely the source of manuscript rejection, are constructively pointed out to you. If you prefer not to
have your own writing reviewed, you'll benefit by listening to other critiques.
Discussions include:
• How editors evaluate submissions
• The importance of a strong opening
• Placement of essential manuscript ingredients
Don’t avoid feedback! You’ll be amazed at the degree by which it will improve your writing.
One Session
Sunday
1 :00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The HOW TO BE PUBLISHED workshops are listed in SHAWGUIDES, the industry's most comprehensive listing of writing conferences and
workshops.
They are also listed in THE LITERARY MARKETPLACE, the publishing industry's official directory of professional resources
Meridian Community College - Meridian, MS - January 31-February 1, 2009
Registration Fee - $70.00 per 3-hour class. MWG members receive $5.00
rebate per class after the workshops. To register call WEBB Hall (601)
482-7445 or for more information call(601) 880-1089.
Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation (SCHF)- Vicksburg, MS - March 7-8,
2009. Registration Fee - $65.00 per 3-hour lass. MWG members receive $5.00
rebate per class after the workshops. To register call SCHF 601-631-2997
(office)
Visit Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation here
For more information call (601) 880-1089.
All MWG Members are mailed a rebate check for $5.00 per workshop after the
workshops are over.
Michael Garrett is an internationally respected author and editor. As credited in Mr. King's
non-fiction book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, he served as Stephen King's first editor. In
a professional capacity he has edited the works of such greats as Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan
Ellison, Lawrence Block and many others.
He has been widely published since 1979, in periodicals ranging from Twilight Zone magazine
to my novel, Keeper, which sold out its initial printing and was optioned for a movie. His short
story, "At the Count of Three," was also optioned as the pilot episode of a late night cable
television series. His works have been published in England, Germany, Japan, Italy, the
Netherlands, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Finland and Russia, as well as in audio
book format.
He serves as co-editor of the internationally award-winning Hot Blood anthology series, a
popular selection of the Doubleday, Mystery, Literary Guild, and Science Fiction Book Clubs.
The series has also been optioned for television.
He's an Editorial Associate of the Writer's Digest School, and since 1986 has presented highly
acclaimed writing workshops at major colleges and universities across the nation. A featured
speaker at numerous writers' conferences, he currently serves on the Advisory Board of
Kentucky's Green River Writers. See: Writing 2 Sell
non-fiction book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, he served as Stephen King's first editor. In
a professional capacity he has edited the works of such greats as Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan
Ellison, Lawrence Block and many others.
He has been widely published since 1979, in periodicals ranging from Twilight Zone magazine
to my novel, Keeper, which sold out its initial printing and was optioned for a movie. His short
story, "At the Count of Three," was also optioned as the pilot episode of a late night cable
television series. His works have been published in England, Germany, Japan, Italy, the
Netherlands, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Finland and Russia, as well as in audio
book format.
He serves as co-editor of the internationally award-winning Hot Blood anthology series, a
popular selection of the Doubleday, Mystery, Literary Guild, and Science Fiction Book Clubs.
The series has also been optioned for television.
He's an Editorial Associate of the Writer's Digest School, and since 1986 has presented highly
acclaimed writing workshops at major colleges and universities across the nation. A featured
speaker at numerous writers' conferences, he currently serves on the Advisory Board of
Kentucky's Green River Writers. See: Writing 2 Sell
If registering by mail please use
this registration form
email or call 601/880-1089 with questions
this registration form
email or call 601/880-1089 with questions
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