 Workshops
This Little Book Went To Market
That Little Book Stayed Home ...
This process has its roots in the following assumptions:
- Every book should be the book of your heart.
- Commercial fiction has a frame. The more you know about the frame and how your work fits into that frame, the more likely you'll have at writing a novel that fits into the market place.
- Reading is an important part of the creative process.
- There is a structure that we instinctively follow as story tellers.
This workshop is designed to fill approximately two hours. Participants will come away with a concrete process to analyze the books they are writing for the market they are targeting. This workshop can be tailored either for a strictly romance audience or a cross genre audience. This workshop includes techniques to:
- Find the themes a writer really cares about.
- Study the best and worst books a writer has ever read and examining why they are the best or the worst.
- Analyze a writers targeted market.
- Determine what's special about a writer's connection to the stories he or she wants to tell.
- Identify the elements common to the type of book in a writer's market.
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