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20 Tips for New Writers
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About 20 Tips for New Writers
20 Tips: Introduction
Class Projects
Before You Start: Creating Good Habits
Before You Start: Observing & Outlining
Tips for Writing Your First Draft
Revising: Cut THAT Out & More
Revising: Word Echoes, Dialogue, & More
What to Do When You're Done
Thank You and Quick Reminders
What You Will Learn?
- Have you ever sat down to write a story, or perhaps to start the novel that’s been burning inside you for years, and you don’t quite know where to start? Then 20 Tips for New Writers is for you. .
- Developed for new writers of long form narrative fiction (or intermediate writers just starting to take their craft seriously), 20 Tips will provide foundational advice to help you start and finish your manuscript. Pulling from best practices I’ve learned over the course of in my writing career, I’ll give you fun, bite-sized, actionable tips on: .
- The course will help you create good writing habits, address the myth of writer's block, examine the “plotter vs. panster” argument, and provide real-world techniques --how to structure dialogue, identifying "word echoes,” and more -- to make your writing hum. .
- Students will come away from the class with a good framework on how to approach writing, as well as real-word advice on how to make your work stand out. .