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Update to Plan Your Novel home study course and Write Your Novel Support Group starting soon!
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Happy Friday! Hope you have some fun weekend plans. Ezra and I are headed to Men of Mystery in Irvine, CA, where Ezra will present, sell, and sign his Torah Codes series.
I have an update announcement for you, for current, former, and home study students of the Plan Your Novel course.
We're always updating our courses, and you have lifetime access to your course and all its updates.
And even if you don't have our Plan Your Novel home study course, this tool may be useful for you.
Thanks to a student's request in the current Plan Your Novel live course, I created and uploaded a lesson on the "Character Relationship Map" in Week #2.
WHAT: In the planning stage, it’s helpful to think through how each of the main characters and secondary characters relate to each other throughout your novel.
This tool comes to us by way of the TV sitcom world. When TV writers plan out their series, season, and episodes, they map out the character relationships to track them. Unfortunately, the handouts I adapted from didn’t cite who created them.
WHY THIS TOOL IS IMPORTANT AND USEFUL: Stories are about how characters change as they pursue that all-important goal. They change because of external events, including the actions of other characters, and because of internal experience, decisions they make because of those external events.
Read the lesson to see how you can map out these relationships for yourself and get the map/grid handout. Please let me know what you think!
To access this new lesson, login into the school and click on "My Courses." Or go here and login:
http://school.bethbarany.com/courses/enrolled/30daywc
If you're not yet enrolled, you still can and get ready for Nanowrimo!
Coming Soon!
You'll get: - A safe space to write your novel, in community with authors like you
- Small and intimate group support with weekly calls (4 Tuesdays at 5:30pm Pacific/8:30pm Eastern; calls last 90-120 minutes.)
- Help with the sagging middle
- Accountability to sit down and write daily
- Tips and techniques on how to make room in your life to write daily (or nearly daily)
- Brainstorming opportunities with your cohorts when you’re stuck
- Support with re-assigning the critical, editorial, judging (left-brain mind)
- Cheerleaders for what you’re creating from your peers and knowledgeable mentors, Beth & Ezra Barany
- Practice sharing in a safe place; you only need to share what you feel comfortable sharing
- Feedback from peers (optional and peer-generated)
Register here:
Happy Writing!
Best,
Beth
PS. Ready to join us for the Write Your Novel Support and Fellowship? To learn more and sign up, go here:
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Barany School of Fiction
*Empowering novelists to get writing, get marketing, and get publishing!*
http://school.bethbarany.com
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ABOUT US
Beth and Ezra Barany are award-winning, best-selling novelists, who have worked with over 100 authors to help them get their books written and published.
♥ Happily married for over 17 years, we’re passionate about writing, storytelling, and guiding authors to achieve their dreams.
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