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Chapter: HCRW Blast off Beginnings
Blastoff Beginnings: Writing Opening Chapters That Take Readers along for the Ride In this month-long online class, New York Times best-selling author Angela Knight discusses how to write a beginning that will have readers clicking the BUY button.
August 5-30, 2020
Workshop Title: Blast off Beginnings
Instructor: Angela Knight
August 5-30
Price: $30 ($25 for HCRW members)
Workshop description:
Blastoff Beginnings: Writing Opening Chapters That Take Readers along for the Ride In this month-long online class, New York Times best-selling author Angela Knight discusses how to write a beginning that will have readers clicking the BUY button.
Knight examines the elements that engage the reader’s curiosity and make her care about your characters. She will explain how to design and execute a fantastic story that will land you on your readers’ auto-buy lists.
Lessons in this month-long online class will be posted on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, students may email scenes to Angela for a critique and suggestions. This won’t be shared with the class.
Introduction — why the first chapter matters
10 First Chapter Tips
Building your book’s conflict launchpad
Internal conflict without navel-gazing
Romantic conflict for smart characters
External conflict without wimps
Make me care
Brainstorming the perfect scene to introduce your hero or heroine
First lines and first pages
The heroic couple’s first scene together
The villain’s first scene
Plotting your course
About the instructor:
Angela Knight is the New York Times bestselling author of books for Berkley, Red Sage, Changeling Press, and Loose Id. Her first book was written in pencil and illustrated in crayon; she was nine years old at the time. A few years later, she read The Wolf and the Dove and fell in love with romance. Besides her fiction work, Angela's publishing career includes a stint as a comic book writer and ten years as a newspaper reporter. Several of her stories won South Carolina Press Association awards under her real name.
When
8/5/2020 - 8/30/2020 12:00 PM
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