How This Workshop Will Help You
You have an idea for a novel, memoir, or short story, but do you have the plot details worked out? What’s a story arc? Do you need more complications? More subplots? Is the story TOO complicated? Will it keep readers turning the pages?
Writer & Writing Coach Myra Levine will give you a list of questions to ask yourself and examples of plots that work v plots that don’t. If you get this right, your story will be easier to write and more entertaining to your readers.
We’ll also talk about story arc, novel structure, and short story dos and don’ts.
What You’ll Do in the Workshop
• Complete writing prompts.
• Discuss examples of story arcs and structures.
• See how plot and story arc is handled in memoir as well as fiction.
• Learn how Plot and Character are related.
Who Should Attend?
• Writers who want to write a great novel, memoir, or short story.
• Anybody struggling with a current novel or short story.
• “Planners” who develop full outlines before they write
• “Pantsers” who make it up as they go along.
• Experienced writers who know there’s always more to learn.
• New writers who wonder if they can do this!
BONUS OFFER• There will be too many participants to share our writing, but you can email your prompts to Myra for personal (FREE) feedback.
About Myra
Myra Levine is on a mission: to make sure nobody dies with their story still inside them. She shows writers how to turn their lives, experiences, and areas of expertise into memoirs and novels. She teaches writing techniques not taught in school, avoids literary jargon, and teaches in plain old English. And her classes are FUN. Writing isn’t about knowing where to put the commas; it’s about capturing a moment and bringing it to life.
As a writing coach, Myra challenges her clients to master the tools of fiction. Understanding point of view, dialog, setting, and character development will bring your fiction to a higher level AND will help you write an unforgettable memoir. The germ of an idea can become a great story, or a dozen great stories, or a terrific novel—and a coach can cut years of frustration from the job of writing a great book.
Before turning to fiction and publishing two novels, 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 in the suburbs of Indianapolis rekindled her ambition to write fiction and gave her LOTS to write about. She is working on a memoir and a third novel.
“If you turn the truth into fiction, you’re less likely to get sued.”
—Myra Levine
Myra’s live Zoom seminars attract writers from all over the world.
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 (print & e-book) and Audible.com (audiobook).