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CREEKSIDE PUBLISHING
An Independent New York publisher
We draw the incredible moments from the journey of your soul.
60 SEEDS OF
SENSATIONAL STORIES
GOAL: Immediate author improvement through numerous quick fixes and practicing multiple new writing habits.
In six weeks of dedicated effort, authors significantly improve and refine their writing game. Though this workshop is geared primarily toward beginner and entry-level writers, skillful authors can benefit from a few weeks of polishing and skill-gap filling.
Week 1: Character Design
Week 2: Plot Engineering
Week 3: World Builders Disease
Week 4: Your character's evolution
Week 5: Plot Twisting
Week 6: A Novel Idea
THE GREAT PROTAGONIST
GOAL: Develop a strong protagonist for your story that people will be interested in following. Soul journeys are fraught with deep introspection and an expectation of concluding with an epiphany. Plot is the engine that drives your story, but your character is the engineer. You need to make your readers care about what's happening to them. In The Great Protagonist you'll be creating your character with a deep reverse interview.
Week 1: What Is Your Soul Element?
Week 2: How old is your soul?
Week 3: What secret do you hide?
Week 4: How dangerous are you?
Week 5: What are your telling traits?
Week 6: What do you look like?
AUTHOR ART AND SOUL
GOAL: Develop a 6th sense of sensory rich writing to create a visceral reading experience. For 6 weeks we work on how to share your story in a way that people will feel compelled to read. This course is more hard hitting and personally challenging than the first two. If you are a beginning author and have not completed workshops 1 & 2, we recommend going through those first.
week 1: Journey Through Your Soul
week 2: The Art of Conflict and Change
week 3: Crafting Dramatic Dialogue and Monologue
week 4: The Research Imperative
week 5: Understanding Plot Strategy
week 6: Unleashing Your True Story
YOUR WRITING AGENDA
Goal: To add a personalized disciplined strategy to the author's skill set.
Good Writing is a SKILL
Excellent Writing is an ARTFORM
Exceptional Writing is a DISCIPLINE
We cannot become anything great if it is not written by fire in our bones. The good news is that we can build that fire by developing a ritualistic habit of routine writing that "fits" our personal style and compels us to write!
1. Build Your World
2. Structure Your Journey Scene By Scene
3. ACT I - the inciting incident
4. ACT II - the rising action and crisis
5. ACT III - the climax
6. ACT VI - the denouement
YOUR SHADOW STORY
Goal: To guide the writer in cathartically penning a memoir that doesn't set them up for after release regret or lawsuits.
We are all born storytellers.
We were not meant to hide in darkness.
We are meant to be connected.
Sharing your story from a healing/healed place can revolutionize your spirit and lead others to enlightenment.
This 6-week workshop channels raw emotion into a great story.
Week 1: Enter Believing - Shadow Stories
Week 2: Enter Speaking - Conversing With Shadows
Week 3: Enter Listening - The Mirror Tricks
Week 4: Enter Stage Left - I will not cry!
Week 5: Stand Empowered - Public Solitude
Week 6: Exit Shining - Your Epitaph
NaNoWriMo BLACK BOX CHALLENGE
GOAL: Strategically write and edit a 50,000-word novel in one month, followed by 2 weeks of focused editing to prepare for submission to a publisher.
This workshop is intended for highly motivated authors who can dedicate to at least an hour per day for six weeks. Anyone can attempt it, but certificates are reserved for those who complete a level 4 or 5 work.
Week 1: A 5,000 Word World
Week 2: 10,000 Skeletons
Week 3: 30,000 Lines of Copy
Week 4: 50,000 Dreams
Week 5: Up Edit Mountain
Week 6: Finding the Black Box
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