Curing Your Writing Problems
with Patrika Vaughn
Seven Common Writing Problems and How to Solve Them.
LSS2050 - Curing Your Writing Problems Part One - $158.00
Week 1: What Editors and Publishers Look for in a Manuscript
Week 2: The Hookless Beginning
Weel 3: Point of View
Week 4: Wooden Characters: Characterizations
Class Dates: Every Friday
LSS2050A - Curing Your Writing Problems Part Two - $158.00
Week #1: Wooden Characters: The Qualities of an Interesting Character
Week #2: Unrealistic Dialogue
Week #3: Poor Research/Fluff & Repetition
Week #4: The Rushed Ending
Class Dates: Every Friday
These are Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
Self-Editing Made Easy
with Roseanne Dowell
Editing is, by far, the most difficult part of writing. Okay, one of the most difficult. Editing is where we have to cut precious words, sentences, or maybe even whole paragraphs. How do we even go about editing? Most of us know to look for punctuation, that’s the easy part. After all we’ve all learned about commas, periods, question marks and exclamation marks in school, didn’t we? Even if we forgot most of what we learned, there are books to help refresh us. But what about the other parts of editing. More importantly, what are the other parts? Did we show, instead of tell? Have we created our characters and shown them without the author’s voice interfering? Have we created enough description? How about describing our surroundings and other scenes. Have we added the five elements necessary to our story? Are our POV’s consistent or have we head hopped all over the place? Have we used the proper dialogue? Added thoughts and action tags? Avoided adverbs or other unnecessary words? Proper editing takes almost as much time as writing. Maybe even more. Roseanne Dowell will help you learn how to cut (ouch) words, sentences, and paragraphs to make your story stronger, more believable, and more importantly – more publishable. Each session with Roseanne will have text to read and examples, as well as assignments. Roseanne will work with you one on one through email.
LSS2051 - Self-Editing Made Easy Part One - $158.00
Three Week Course:
Session 1 – In this session, we’ll learn the basics of showing, not telling to help keep the pace of the story.
Session 2 – In this session, we’ll learn how to describe your characters, places and things without the author’s voice intruding.
Session 3 - In this session, we’ll learn how to use more than one POV and avoid head hopping.
Starts Every Wednesday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
LSS2051A - Self-Editing Made Easy Part Two - $158.00
Three Week Course
Session 1 – In this session, we’ll learn how to write dialogue, add thoughts, and action tags.
Session 2 – In this session, we’ll learn how to avoid common writing mistakes..
Session 3 – In this session, we’ll learn how to format our manuscript and learn how to use the MS tools.
Starts Every Wednesday
These are Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
Start Here - Basic Writing Skills
with Patrika Vaughn
Want to write? Uncertain how to begin? Afraid you won't be good enough? Not sure what's involved in putting your story together? This course will fill you in on all the little tricks the pros know -- things they learned the hard way, through trial and error, that you'll learn in a few weeks -- that will help you write effortlessly and effectively.
LSS2052 - Start Here - Basic Writing Skills Part One - $158.00
3 Week Course
Starts Every Friday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
LSS2052A - Start Here - Basic Writing Skills Part Two - $158.00
3 Week Course
Starts Every Friday
These are Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
The Nitty-Gritty of Good Grammar and Great Writing
with Francis X. Curry
LSS2054 - The Nitty Gritty of Good Grammar and Great Writing, Part One - $158.00
This course proposes to show the student how to plan and begin writing. Then, use this information to expand into a completed piece of writing. It presents the very basics of writing. A method of preparing a plan for writing any long piece. Each lesson presents items necessary for the production of a credible written piece. Instructor maintains personal contact with the student.
Anyone wishing to write a book length manuscript must create a writing plan and learn how to use that plan to produce the work in the shortest time and in the best order. This course endeavors to teach the necessities to start this process.
A Five Week Course
Start Date: Every Wednesday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
LSS 2054A - The Nitty-Gritty of Good Grammar and Great Writing, Part Two - $158.00
This course endeavors to reach a finalized manuscript.
A Five Week Course
Start Date: Every Wednesday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
BANISH WRITER’S BLOCK (and writer’s stall)
with Janet Singleton
LSS2055 - Banish Writer's Block (and writer's stall) $159.00
Learn the behaviors that will make you write more: Are you a stop-start writer—things go smoothly much of the time, but on some occasions you simply get stuck? Have you wasted hours when you tried to write but could not?
This workshop is about teaching ourselves to more easily accomplish great things. If we could conquer our own minds, we could conquer the universe, it has been said. Yet self-discipline is experienced as that bitter potion that keeps us from eating the second piece of blueberry pie. However, real dominion over our minds would mean being so happy with the first piece that we would not crave a second. So in this class we will focus not on self-discipline, but self-conditioning. We will learn how to stop reinforcing procrastination and start rewarding perseverance. As we cut through our ambivalence about writing, we can acquire the additional skills needed to become prolific writers. Each week participants are invited to submit up to five pages of their work for evaluation. And a lesson guide booklet, Make Writing Second Nature, will be e-mailed.
This workshop will show you how to KICK WRITER’S BLOCK out of YOUR LIFE, and:
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stop the behavior that supports it.
stop the behavior that supports it.•put together a plan of action that will rid your life of writers’ block.
put together a plan of action that will rid your life of writers’ block.•effectively challenge your fears about writing.
effectively challenge your fears about writing.•understand the real reasons you are not writing enough.
understand the real reasons you are not writing enough.•discover how to break the approach-avoidance loop.
discover how to break the approach-avoidance loop.•learn how you can confront and conquer your demons in non-confessional privacy.
learn how you can confront and conquer your demons in non-confessional privacy.•discover how not to worry and make writing second nature.
discover how not to worry and make writing second nature.WEEK ONE: JUMPSTART YOUR WRITING. Identify and defeat self-defeating thoughts through exercises and rational thinking. After the doubts are extinguished, pump up your confidence through logic and imagery. After this session you should be ready to write and then go to it.
WEEK TWO: Identify the behaviors that discourage writing. Learn to increase the actions that encourage writing.
WEEK THREE: NORMALIZE YOUR WRITING. Learn to take a look at how your life really works as opposed to how it is supposed to work. Use self-conditioning to make sitting down to write a painless habit.
WEEK FOUR: MORE TRICKS for YOUR HEAD: Discover the best time to stop writing. Create more ways to reinforce good habits.
WEEK FIVE: TROUBLESHOOTING. Where and when are you more likely to get stuck? Incorporate the skills to conquer transitions, chapter beginnings, and story endings. And learn to soldier on when you seemed to have lost your way.
Class dates: Every Tuesday.
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
Long Story Short School of Writing offers a multitude of great courses taught by highly qualified instructors. Whether you write for fun, school, business or with dreams of getting published, we have courses that will help advance your writing and your career!
SELF-EDITING:
"This writing class is worth every penny I paid for my tuition. Roseanne really knows her stuff and she delivers more than promised. Her lessons are simple, to the point and easy to understand. . . challenging enough without being overwhelming. Roseanne is very attentive and gives one-on-one mentoring just like having my own personal trainer.. . .. she critiqued all areas of my writing - bringing to my attention my weak areas that I have been neglecting. . .quick with responses and is generous in encouragement, suggestions and answering my writing questions thoroughly. "
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