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| You Don’t Need To Go It Alone to Edit Your Novel 💞
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December 4, 2020
Oakland, CA
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| | Since I was a little girl I wanted to write stories, but I didn’t know how. It was painful -- the gap between desiring and not knowing.
I probably was in that pain for over 20 years until I finally decided to do something about it.
I was about to be 30 and had applied to graduate school in journalism, but had gotten rejected. What a blow to my confidence to be rejected! I’d always been able to succeed in school and here I was facing a big fat NO – we don’t even want you.
When I finally picked my broken pieces off the floor, I asked myself what the hell happened?
I re-read my application essay and saw that I’d told the school that I wanted to be a journalist because I wanted to be a novelist.
OMG. I had told them in black and white precisely what I wanted.
I guess journalism school had been like a consolation prize I’d been reaching for without even trying to go after what I really wanted.
I was stunned. Then I saw the truth of it and knew I had to decide: do I pursue my dream of being a novelist or do I set this dream aside and dream up a new direction in my life?
Once I posed the question, it took me all of two seconds to realize that I’d regret it forever if I didn’t actively pursue my dream of being a novelist.
Done. Decided. Now what?
I knew what my next step was: I needed to join a group of like-minded people all working on their dream of being novelists.
Groups were my speed, my way of learning best.
It was time to find that group. So I went to the hub of information: the local public library. Yep, this story takes place before the internet. I entered the Berkeley Central Library, a majestic historic building, and went straight to the community bulletin board. There it was on a 3x5 index card: an invite to a writers group at a local café on Telegraph Ave. to sit and write.
At the meeting, I got started on a story that just flowed out of me and – Boom -- that was it. I was committed to the process, to the unknown that was unfolding under my pen, and to writing this book to the end.
And that’s what I did. In the interim I outgrew this group that got together to write, and found a group that focused on improving one’s fiction—a supportive critique group with experienced writers who knew how to give helpful and gentle feedback.
And there I stayed, dug in, and faced what was next for me—producing content and learning in the crucible of doing the writing.
Fast forward to today: My husband and I publish our own novels – over 20 between us - and I run a business helping authors learn how to write, edit, and publish their novels.
The Offer
We have a 12-month group coaching program to help writers, like you, edit and publish their genre novels.
We do require that you have at least your draft already written. That’s okay if it’s your first novel, or maybe it’s your fifth and you have yet to share it with anyone.
The Core Problem and Our Solution
Our program reduces the fear, overwhelm, loneliness, self-doubt in editing and publishing a novel and provides how to's and a road map for editing, publishing, and marketing, and mindset shifts, so you can have the confidence and support to go from messy draft to completed book you’re proud to publish for eager readers.
Some questions you may have:
- What is good quality writing and storytelling?
- How do I measure up?
- What's missing? Where am I strong?
- How do I craft a page-turning novel?
- How do I successfully polish and publish a novel?
- How do I set up the marketing for my novel so that I can sell books?
We totally get it and we address all these concerns in our program, as we offer discerning individualized support tailored to your needs and goals.
What You Need To Know Before Being Ready To Invest with Us
This program is for you if:
♥ You crave learning in a small online group of like-minded people and know how it can accelerate your learning/growing process.
♥ You want to learn from experienced teachers who are also good writers and walk their talk and have been at it for a good while. (Ezra and I have been teachers and writers for over 20 years and between us we’ve taught 1000s of students at all levels of skill.)
♥ You’re willing to dive in the learning process, with all its ups and downs.
♥ You’re certain you can learn to write compelling, page-turning fiction, but you want a guide.
♥ You’re eager to step away from the “lone wolf” mentality and step into the mindset of “it takes a village to succeed”.
Ready to Join us? Your Next Step
Since we have rolling enrollment, you can join anytime. Yay!
If you’re ready, go here to check out our program and enroll: http://coaching.bethbarany.com/.
We do have three levels of engagement so you can join at the level that’s right for you.
1. Call To Adventure: Small group support, plus an all-access pass to Barany School of Fiction, including our editing, marketing, and publishing class.
2. Crossing The Threshold: Monthly mentorship calls with Beth and deep-dive edits int your book. Plus, group support and an all-access pass to the school.
3. Return With The Elixir: Twice-monthly calls with Beth and deep-dive edits; plus group support and an all-access pass to the school.
And because NaNoWriMo is now over and you may be looking around for the next step, check out our program and know that we're running a Holiday Special…
If you sign up now, you get a whole suite of bonuses, including three 1-1 mentor calls with me, where I’ll read up to 20 pages ahead of our call. Then we’ll look at them together and do some live editing and discuss strengths and weaknesses and next steps for your manuscript. Just this bonus alone is worth $2,400.
All the bonuses are here:
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| | Upcoming Events
Free Webinar on “Editing Your Novel” -- date: February 2021
Sign up to be notified for the date:
** We’re still narrowing down the topics. You can help us by sharing about your biggest challenges in editing your novel in this short survey here: http://bethb.net/eynsurvey.
I had planned to deliver this webinar next week, but realized I was stressing unduly and needed to give myself room to breathe, dream, and prep -- especially because I'm also diving deeper into editing the 3rd novel in my Janey McCallister Mystery series. I need space to create :) |
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Have a happy and creative week!
All my best,
Beth
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| | Latest Posts on the Writer's Fun Zone Blog |
| | | In The Media
This week, along with some of my cohorts of small business owners, I was interviewed by Tara McMullin of the What Works podcast on how I learned to see things in a new way.
I share how my NLP skills helped me help my students, and more.
You can take a listen here:
My bit starts at 7:03.
Enjoy!
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| | | Our Newest Book for Writers!
"7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel: Story Preparation for Pansters"
We're selling this book for $0.99 on the ebook retailers, as a way to introduce new writers to our material.
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Now in its 14th year, this newsletter is a service of my coaching and consulting business, helping genre fiction writers write, market, and publish their books through courses, a 12-month group program, and books.
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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.
Want a course to help you prepare to write your novel? Discover the comprehensive Plan Your Novel course here, co-taught with award-winning, bestselling thriller author, Ezra Barany.
She's also an award-winning novelist and writes magical tales of romance, adventure, and mystery to empower women and girls to be the heroes in their own lives.
Uncover her Henrietta series here (YA Fantasy) and her Touchstone series here (Fantasy/Paranormal Romance). And her new Sci-fi Mystery here.
beth@bethbarany.com
Barany School of Fiction
Writer's Fun Zone blog
Photo Credit: by c. 2018 Ezra Barany
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