Writer’s Workshop Weekends
Every weekend, The Naked Hero is turning to CRAFT! We’re hosting Craft Workshops in the form of Writer’s Workshop Weekends.
Come recharge your muse!
Challenge your creativity!
Get motivated!
And learn more about craft in the process.
It’s fun, so come on by!!
Your Turn! Choose one of the following two prompts, write about it, [...]
The Naked Hero
Stripping down heroes (to their archetypes). It’s a tough job, but a girl’s gotta work.
Great Heroes
Viggo Mortenson is one great hero, both on the screen and off. Read about other heroes at http://chasingheroes.com.
For Writers
Every author has their two cents to give on the writing process, whether it is how they got where they are or what important knowledge they have to share with the writing community. I, of course, am no exception! I’ve had revelations, moments where things just clicked and suddenly made sense, and epiphanies after the fact when I realized, “Wow, that was a bit of brilliance!”
Finding an Agent
Finding an agent is only one step (after writing a great book) in the challenging process of building a career as an author. My experience taught me that the industry adage No agent is better than the wrong agent is completely and unequivocally true. I was completely green when I started taking my writing career seriously. I’d written a book that I thought was pretty good, with characters that I loved, but I was afraid to send it out to agents.
Finding Voice
Finding your voice is perhaps one of the most difficult things a writer must do. It’s not as if you’ve lost it and it’s hiding under the bed, waiting to be rediscovered. And you can’t copy someone else’s. Your voice is the single most important element in your writing because it makes your work distinctly yours. It’s a combination of your style, your phrasing, your unique vernacular, and how you create tension and build plot. Put it in a blender, mix it up, and voila!, you have voice.
Let the Solar System Strengthen Your Writing
If only authors could sprinkle magic fairy dust over their manuscripts to
guarantee a tightly spun plot that draws the reader in and captivates them for the duration of the book. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? I’d head down to the nearest Magic Shop and stock up.
Marketing and Promotion
It’s never too early to begin marketing yourself and promoting your stories, but knowing how and where to begin can be tough. In this series of articles over the next few months, Misa and I will discuss the differences between marketing and promotion and share tips that we’ve learned along our paths to publication and things we’ve picked up since our first sales.
The Hero’s Journey
The Hero’s Journey
This page summrarizes the brief explanations from every step of the Hero’s Journey.
Standing Out From the Pack: Making High Concept Work for You
High Concept is a buzz phrase that’s both abstract and difficult to wrap your brain around. What does it mean exactly? In a nutshell, a high concept idea is the hook and a high concept story is a great hook written with unique details that give flight to the idea and make it original.
