Please go to our Wordflow page for all the details and pricing options for this amazing course available 6 times a year.
Kathrin Lake will take fiction and nonfiction writers through the crucial elements of story structure as well as advanced writing techniques that enhance storytelling. Tips in areas such as story structure, character development, relationships, descriptions, making your stories stronger, self-editing, setting, plotting. Get all your questions answered. This is an intense 5-day LIVE online Zoom course in which participants will do character development, writing and plotting exercises, and share their work in a safe supportive environment. Recorded. MINIMUM 4 PARTICIPANTS - $240
We will start a new course when we have 4 or more interested and can adjust time and dates to suit the participants SO IT IS LIVE! Click on button "Email Me More Info" for full course description AND get on the interested list, and say what time of day or night works for you, as well as what time zone you are in.
Author, Kate Lovecraft (pseudonym), will explain the nuts and bolts of writing a murder mystery in this intense 4-day course. Things covered will be genre expectations, plotting, characters, location, clues, denouement, and more. This will get new writers to the genre started, and others who are already writing, a new boost. Fun exercises and sharing. MINIMUM 4 PARTICIPANTS - $240
March 24 - 27, 2025, 4pm – 6pm PST LIVE Zoom.
(6-8pm CT, 7-9pm ET)
Learn how to be a more effective writer 24 hours a day by designing a writer’s life. Topics include: What Stories Am I Meant to Tell?, The Essentials of Storytelling, Journaling, How to Craft Irresistible Dialogue, Best Practices for Enhancing Creativity and also How to Produce More By Writing to Deadline. As a bonus, we will practice how to Edit Like a Pro. Instructor David Kilmer has spent a lifetime crafting stories, published hundreds of magazine stories, two literary non-fiction books including his most recent, The Way of the Sailor and one novel. He has been a ghostwriter, editor, newspaper reporter, feature writer and is currently the editor of Coeur d’Alene Magazine. MINIMUM 4 PARTICIPANTS - $240
March 31 - April 24, 2025, Mondays & Thursdays, 4pm – 5:30pm PST LIVE Zoom.
(6-7:30pm CT, 7-8:30pm ET)
Tentatively planned for November 2025, & April 5 - 11, 202
Get on our email list for details, subscribe below, or email us directly for more information. We facilitated top-level writing retreats from the years 2011 to 2020, and stopped for Covid. To relaunch them we would like to do them better than ever and that is taking time to develop.
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