Fire In The Belly, Write To Be Read

How to Write Your Novel or Memoir with Purpose and Passion

What you'll learn

Help you recognize and develop your own innate talents, which, over the course, you will see you have vastly underestimated.

Learn to integrate multiple Literary Devices, absorbing the advice of established authors and editors.

Learn to self-edit professionally, and understand the workings of the pubishing world.

Complete your novel or memoir in a passionate, professional, and persuasive manner, ready for publication.

Requirements

A passionate desire to share your story

Description

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."  Zora HurstonFire in the Belly: Write to be Read. You are the world’s leading authority on your novel or memoir, and you have vastly underestimated your ability to tell a good story.  Over 50 sessions, I arrest all the usual suspects (syntax, literary devices, plot, dialogue, publishing, etc.) but more importantly, together we’ll infuse your readers with the same passion and purpose that compelled you to write in the first place. Your words are the wings that lift a great story off the page. Other courses may walk you through how to write your story… but why walk when you’ve got wings?This course is different from others because I am different; my peers in the field often refer to me as the anti-editor. While elites were sipping Chablis at Oxford, I popped open a beer with my orangutans in the jungles of Borneo, or paid a smuggler to get me across the Straits of Singapore at two in the morning, after the gunboats passed, or swam with the Gray Whales and sharks, or…Hemingway said in order to write about life, you have to live life. I can tell a good story because I’ve lived a good story, and I will help you to do the same. The adventure of your life within a failed or successful marriage can be every bit as intriguing and compelling as fending off pirates in the South China Sea.What’s your story?  I’m listening.

Overview

Section 1: Lessons

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Piano Tuning and Mastering the art of Procrastination

Lecture 3 Reading and writing: the Spiral of Ying and Yang

Lecture 4 An exercise in evolution

Lecture 5 What’s in a name?

Lecture 6 The job of Page One

Lecture 7 Ten paces, turn, and Fire

Lecture 8 The unbearable lightness of adjectives and adverbs

Lecture 9 The Holy Trinity of Trust

Lecture 10 Traditional, Hybrid or self-publishing: What’s right for you?

Lecture 11 The imagination muscle and Flipping the meme

Lecture 12 Who did you delegate to tell your Story?

Lecture 13 Attribution: the underrated asset in your arsenal

Lecture 14 “The Rolling Stones are the best Rock Band ever!”

Lecture 15 They’re out there. See the Child. Everyone Lies

Lecture 16 Viagra or Ambien

Lecture 17 Bohemian Rhapsody

Lecture 18 Once there was a way to get back home

Lecture 19 How to shoot yourself in the foot

Lecture 20 In the realm of the senses

Lecture 21 “Nothing runs like a deere” Literary devices: Part 1

Lecture 22 “…furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.” Literary devices, part 2

Lecture 23 How to write a book review (and a peek behind the publishing curtain)

Lecture 24 “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a fuck”

Lecture 25 Write drunk, edit sober?

Lecture 26 Blood in the water

Lecture 27 To be or not to be is questionable

Lecture 28 A Star(fish) is born

Lecture 29 Plot vs premise

Lecture 30 Ob-ovus (from the egg) vs mid-story: It’s not obvious

Lecture 31 Theme: The me

Lecture 32 The art of the interview

Lecture 33 You are certainly entitled to my opinion

Lecture 34 Lessons in Action

Lecture 35 Masterpiece memoirs Part 1: Tell the story of a lifetime

Lecture 36 Masterpiece Memoirs Part Two: Tell the story of a lifetime

Lecture 37 The secrets of successful self-editing: Part 1

Lecture 38 More secrets of Professional editing: Part 2

Lecture 39 Writer Beat-ups: a code of conduct

Lecture 40 Purple-ing your prose

Lecture 41 Scene vs Situation

Lecture 42 Dynamic Dialogues

Lecture 43 Exclamation Points!!!

Lecture 44 Befriending word-search

Lecture 45 Bookending and Dennouement

Lecture 46 Writers on Writing

Lecture 47 20 titles you can steal, 20 quotes you can’t

Lecture 48 Lubrication: Writer exercises

Lecture 49 Works

Lecture 50 Bonus: resources

This course is for beginning writers undertaking for the first time the great campaign of writing a novel or memoir and for those who have written previously and are aware they could be more persuasive and engaging