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Charlotte Writers’ Club Presents an Intensive Eight-Hour Workshop "Writing the Breakout Novel" with Famous New York Agent/Author/Teacher, Donald Maass Registration Form (Click Here) February 21, 2009 – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central Campus – Central Piedmont Community College – Charlotte, NC Professional Development Bldg., 3rd Floor, Rm. PD304 Limited to 50 Participants Requirement: Must bring completed novel or novel-in-progress. Total Fee: Charlotte Writers’ Club Members: $65.00; Non-members: $75.00 – lunch included Deposit of $25 required and applied to total fee. Balance due December 1, 2008 *CWC Members have until Sept. 1, 2008 to register before it is open to the public **Refunds for emergency only – two weeks before workshop Questions? Contact:
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Send deposit or total fee to: Jerri McCloud (Checks payable to: Charlotte Writers’ Club) 217 Regency Drive Charlotte, NC 28211 Workshop Description: "Writing the Breakout Novel": An intensive, hands-on writing workshop that introduces powerful techniques for taking your fiction to the next level. Participants must bring the manuscript of a completed novel, or novel-in-progress. Based on the book “Writing the Breakout Novel” by New York literary agent Donald Maass. Some of the topics covered: - Adding heroic qualities right away
- Opening extra character dimensions
- Constructing inner conflict
- Creating larger-than-life qualities
- Raising personal stakes
- Deepening the antagonist
- Secondary character development
- Raising public stakes
- Building plot layers
- Weaving layers together
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- Heightening turning points
- Building high moments
- Measuring change (the secret behind telling not showing)
- Backstory placement
- Tension on every page
- Theme development
- First lines
- Pitch (synopsis) reduction
| Donald Maass is president of the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, which he founded in 1980. He represents more than 100 fiction writers and sells more than 100 novels per year to top publishers in America and overseas. He is himself the author of fourteen pseudonymous novels and of the books The Career Novelist (Heineman, 1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (Writers Digest Press, 2001) and Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (Writers Digest Press, 2004). He is a past president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc. (AAR).
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