Practical Writing Tips That Really Work (Jan 14, 7pm NYC / midnite London)

PRACTICAL WRITING TIPS THAT REALLY WORK

How This 90-Minute Workshop Will Help You

Why is it so easy to see the flaws in other people's writing, but not our own? No matter what you're writing, you need to be objective and honest with yourself. Even if you aren't aiming for a literary agent and a traditional publisher, I hope you're goal is to be a great writer. I hope you want to be as powerful with your words as the Giants of writing.

The good new is that writing is a craft, and you can learn the craft. I believe I was born to be a writer, but--and please hear me--I was not born a great writer. I learned what I know. You can, too.

I'm going to give you a list of the things I look at as I write to prevent myself from making the typical mistakes that all writers are prone to. This are the same strategies I use to help clients.

You'll see that some of these are about the attitude yougo into a project with--your purpose and goal. Other things we'll talk about are more "mechanical," and some are so simple, you might be amazed.

We'll do some writing prompts, so be prepared to at least start the writing prompts. You'll be able to send them to me for feedback. No charge, of course.

Writer & Writing Coach Myra Levine will take this complex subject and make it understandable. Writing prompts will give you an opportunity to practice writing scenes.

What You’ll Do in the Workshop

• Learn the difference between SCENE and narrative summary

• Examine the elements that go into effective scenes

• Practice writing and improving scenes

•Learn to write scenes that advance plots and build characters

Who Should Attend

• New writers who don't feel comfortable writing scenes

•Writers who aren't sure their scenes are effective and interesting

• Writers who realize their skills need a boost

About Myra

Myra Levine is on a mission: to make sure that nobody dies with their story still inside them. She shows people how to turn their memories into interesting stories—even novels—with techniques not taught in school. And her classes are FUN. To Myra, writing isn’t about grammar or spelling or knowing where to put the commas; it’s about capturing a moment in a way that brings it to life. As a writing coach, she challenges her clients to dig deeper into their lives to find the germ of an idea that will become a great story, or a dozen great stories, or a terrific novel. Her favorite students fall into two categories: people who are sure they can’t write, and people who are sure they can!

Before turning to fiction, Myra spent decades writing television and radio scripts, instructional videos, and corporate marketing programs. She won many local and regional advertising awards before leaving corporate life to become a wife and mother of two adopted kids. Stay-at-home motherhood rekindled her ambition to write fiction.

As Myra puts it, “If you don't write your stories, who will?”

Written under the name M.E. Levine, Myra's novels, Revenge of the Soccer Moms and The Dead Mothers’ Club, are available on Amazon.com in print and e-book and on Audible.com as audiobooks.