Fearless Writer Packets

How do you create a unique, cohesive, compelling story? By building on the bedrock of your own strengths. Define your vision for your story and get going! Award-winning author Laura Baker will help you tap into your resources for enhanced storytelling skills, building characters and increasing your novel's emotional resonance. The workshop starts with story ideas and the story box, then explores motivations, structure and profound events. Packed with writing exercises, the lessons help students progressively hone in on their own dramatic powers. With an emphasis on discovering each writer's individual strengths, this workshop is appropriate for those at the beginning of writing as well as those seeking to create a hallmark for their work.  

The lesson materials from this month-long class look at Story Arc and Character Arc as the two compelling drives of a great story and how to make them work together.  Laura will give you a new way of managing the dynamics of plot, character and conflict--a new technique of plotting with TASKS--that naturally braids plot and character into an escalating and motivated arc.  Lessons also look at turning points and the mini-epiphanies that launch the protagonist from turning points.

Can you answer the question, "What is your story about?"

And, now, can you answer the question, “What is your story REALLY about?”

The packet contains the outline, complete lessons, the assignments and all supporting handouts. A total of over 100 pages of detailed instruction, will take you through the DSM process using an analysis of a romantic suspense plot, Casablanca.