Story Stew University

WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY STORY? RECOGNITION POINTS AND HOW TO CORRECT.
Instructors: Jane Toombs and Janet Lane Walters
Authors of BECOMING YOUR OWN CRITIQUE PARTNER

One month class: April 2010--A lesson, homework, critiquing and answering questions on every weekday. Weekends: (Except for Easter Sunday) questions and answers only.

Lessons will cover:
Is your plot viable?
Who, when , where, what, why and how.
False starts, including prologues.
Realistic dialogue.
Point of view.
Using the senses in a natural manner, plus overwriting.
Mood and theme.
How to avoid passive sentences.
Body parts and overwriting.
Short & Succinct.
Likeable heroes and heroines.
Is your villain believable?
How to edit and what to look for, which takes up the last week.

$30.00

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Jane’s bio: Award-winning Jane Toombs has over eighty published books to date, plus some twenty novellas. She lives, with the Viking from her past and their calico grandcat, Kinko, on the south shore of Lake Superior. There they enjoy fantastic summers, tolerable springs and colorful falls. The less said about the miserable winters the better.
January releases:
NULL AND VOID, first book in the SHADOWED HEARTS gothic series from Red Rose Publishing.
NIGHTINGALE MAN, a WW1 spy thriller, with a touch of romance from Champagne Books

Janet’s Bio: Janet Lane Walters lives in the scenic Hudson Valley with her psychiatrist husband who refuses to cure her obsession with writing. She's surrounded by dragons, has five grandchildren who sometimes become characters in her books. She's published around 40 books while pursuing a separate career as a nurse.
Latest Release: MURDER AND MINT TEA re-released by DiskUs Publishing.
Coming soon are REQUIEM MURDER, THE MIDAS MURDERS, THE HUDSON HOUSE MURDERS.
THE HENGE BETRAYED -- REFUGE from Mundania Press