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The Cyclical Nature of Flow, Why I Write, and Scene Openings
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Recently I read an article on how a loop is more symbolic of life than a double helix. It got me thinking about feedback loops, how we humans learn, and daily incremental steps.
It's my 20th anniversary of writing fiction with focus, passion, and commitment.
It's been a long, circuitous route and started with meandering and a vague dream, and journal writing. More about my search for why I write here.
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Our webinar about scene openings with guest teacher, Bonnie Johnston, was a great success. The replay is up through Monday night.
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| 10 Power Techniques for Starting Your Scenes *Free Webinar*
What do great scene openings have in common?
How can you be confident that the first sentence or two of your scene will hook your readers and reel them in?
Discover the answers in this webinar.
Uncover how to craft powerful scene openings...
Guest Instructor: Bonnie Johnston
Hosted by Beth Barany
What You’ll Learn on the Live Webinar:
- The 4-part structure of a scene
- How the scene’s rising action, climax and resolution unfold from the opening
- How to know if you’ve started your scene in the right place
- 10 powerful scene-starting techniques that will grab your readers’ attention and draw them into the scene’s action
- Plus, you’ll get a peek into Manuscript Magic, a masterclass on revision and editing (affiliate link)
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| Writers, Awaken The Goddess Within, Step Into Your Power & Live Your True Calling!
I’ll be a part of an upcoming summit “Fabulous After Forty! Awaken The Goddess Within, Step Into Your Power & Live Your True Calling!”
I enjoyed sharing with Gerri tips about being with the messy and sometimes challenging creative process.
Here are the details:
Sign up now! It starts April 11th.
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| If you want a career as a novelist, you are creating a business!
It’s true! If you want to make a career as a novelist, you are creating a business.
Well, you don’t have to wonder what that means as an artist…
My friend and colleague Alexis Fedor has an incredible free training called The Creator’s Profit Plan coming out on April 16th about how to design a business with and for your specific artistic discipline that aligns with your vision and mission and helps you connect with your true ideal client — your true ideal readers.
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Here's to your creativity! Happy writing!
Best,
PS. Save the date for our upcoming special training on mastering deep POV. Wednesday, April 25, 5pm PT/8pm ET with guest instructor, Alice Gaines. Registration details coming soon!
PPS. Curious about working with a Virtual Assistant (VA) in your author business. Then read this series of articles by one of our guest columnists, Chloe Adler. Hiring a Virtual Assistant Part 1 and Part 2 and An Expensive VA Mistake and An Expensive VA Mistake.
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| | | | QUIZ from Barany School of Fiction
Not sure which of our many home study self-paced courses are right for you?
Start here with a short quiz to discover which stage of writing your book you're in and that will guide you to which of our courses can help you at the stage you're in with your book. You can also contact me for a Discovery call.
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c. 2007-2018 Beth Barany, Creativity Coach for Writers, www.BethBarany.com
Not sure which program or course is right for you?
BTW, I'm a working novelist too, with two series published in two genres, and more on the way. :)
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| ABOUT BETH BARANY
Beth Barany is creativity coach for writers, a teacher, workshop facilitator, and speaker, who helps fiction writers experience clarity, so that they can write and polish their novels, and proudly publish them to the delight of their readers.
Owner of the Barany School of Fiction, an online training hub, Beth takes great interest in how humans learn, create, and grow, and includes all her students’ life experiences, including the ancestors, into the moment.
She's also a novelist and writes magical tales of romance and adventure to empower women and girls to jump into life with both feet and be the heroes in their own lives.
Check out her Henrietta series here (YA Fantasy) and her Touchstone series here (Fantasy/Paranormal Romance).
Support her mission to empower women and girls with her fiction on Patreon here.
Read her latest book for writers, Twitter for Authors, here.
beth@bethbarany.com
Barany School of Fiction
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Photo Credit: by c. 2014 Vivienne McMaster
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