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The 4 Throughlines, taught by Jim Hull, is available to all members.

Experimental Stories– Playing with Fiction and Form

Looking at Epistolary Fiction, Interactive and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Narratives, Ways to Generate Ideas From Other Media, Unusual Points of Views, Metafiction in Short and Long Fiction, and Other Unconventional Forms.

Rhetorical Techniques in Flash Fiction

Experiment With a Variety of Different Linguistic Methods — From Anaplosis to Zeugma! — To Develop Flash Stories Full of Rhythm, Emphasis, And Meaning.

Unreliable Narrators

Learn to Build Compelling Characters Whose Flawed Perceptions or Hidden Agendas Transform a Simple Tale Into a Captivating Puzzle.

Deepening Your Character Dynamics

Guide You Through Deepening The Dynamics Between Your Characters, so That Tension And Conflict Feel Fresh, And Your Reader is Invested

Novel Architecture, Part 3

We’ll Dig Beneath The Typical Blueprints of Novel Architecture To Look Into Some of The Less Obvious Structural Sources of Narrative Drive.

The Story in a Song

Learn How To Borrow From Songwriting Structures, Narratives, Characters, Settings And Moods, And Explore Your Own Musical Memories.

Screenwriting for Beginners

This Short Workshop Is Designed For Prose Writers Who Want To Learn How To Translate Their Work To The Screen.

Decoding Voice

A good voice could describe a ketchup bottle and be utterly compelling.

Developing Voice Across Genres

Explore The Elements of Voice and Engage in Generative Writing Exercises Focused on Developing Voice Across Genres

Micro-Fiction

Explore How To Build Entire Worlds, Develop Compelling Characters, And Deliver Resonant Emotional Punches In Under 300 Words.

Book to Film 101

Bring Your Work To The Big Screen, or Deep in The Querying Trenches And Looking Toward The Future, This Introductory Seminar Will Help You

Find Your Lightning: Generative Writing

Live Training with TJ Price. About This Training This session is a mix of lecture and workshop focused on overcoming creative paralysis through generative writing

Making Your Writing Feel REAL

Crafting Fictional Stories Woven Into Realistic Historical Backgrounds, Using Real Events, Places, and Even Living People

Reading Like A Writer

Live Training with Jenny Kiefer. About This Training — 101 level — A good writer is a good reader. In this course, we will discuss

Worldbuilding

11+ hours of creating people, places, and things. And magic.

Self-Publishing

12+ hours of preparing your work for sale, and how to sell it.

Actionable Agent Advice

What an agent actually does + how to write synopsis, first pages, and query letters they notice.

Complex Magic Design

Designing a magic system is easy. Designing a robust magic system that stands up to scrutiny? A little harder.

Challenges

Monthly challenges to help you succeed fast.

Query Letters

Actionable Agent Advice IV with Kaitlyn Katsoupis.

Self Pub Prep

Turn your manuscript into a printable package on any budget.

Radical Candor

Bharat Krishnan. The STOP methodology to emotionally honest manuscripts.