PRESENTATIONS

COMING SOON IN 2025 ON ZOOM 

3 HOUR PRESENTATION PLUS Q&A

ALL FOR $150 PER PERSON, PER PRESENTATION

The first two hours will focus on the four powerful  elements plus two other forms of dialogue from best selling novels to demonstrate how authors may get the most out of their story telling. Handouts will be forwarded to students prior to class to follow along with during class.

The last hour will focus on attribution, mechanics of punctuation, and how to avoid common Dialogue rendering mistakes many authors make. Handouts will be forwarded to students prior to class to follow along with during class.

DRAMATIC WRITING FOR POWERFUL SCENES

Coming again in 2025

90 minute presentation includes Q&A afterward

$100 PER STUDENT

How does this apply to my writing?

If we stop to think about it, as writers we tend to have an internal movie going on in our head when we’re writing. As director, screenwriter, and character all wrapped up into one, we are always making choices in an attempt to let our perfect scene play out on the page. 

But WHAT choices are we making, and why? 

What points of view are we, as authors and mind-movie directors, choosing? What tone and pace are we selecting for the scene? What would be the alternative? How much of that perfect envisioned scene in our imagination is making it to the page? 

In "Breaking Down the Dramatic Scene", we are prodded to think about our own work by examining the directors, actors, and script writer's work from notable movies in visual form. 

INTRODUCING OUR CHARACTERS STARTS AT THE FIRST DRAFT

Coming in 2025

90 minute presentation includes Q&A

$75 PER STUDENT

Our characters, like people you meet in all walks of life, reveal themselves little by little from page one onward. In this presentation, the writer will explore how accomplished best selling authors choose to reveal their heroes and heroines in the first few pages to the reader, using examples from critically acclaimed novels with in-depth student participation. In addition the presentation will include examples of what our characters look at or pay attention to in a scene, and why these observations matter.

POINT OF VIEW - IT MATTERS

Coming Soon in 2025

90 minute presentation includes Q&A

In this 90 minute presentation the writer will explore the power and deficiencies within each POV perspective by contrasting them against each other with examples from cherished novels. The student in this presentation will discover there is many ways to tell the story beyond just the four basic POVs. Which one is right for you and your story? Come and explore for yourself! 

$75 PER STUDENT (INCLUDES MATERIALS)