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News: Any student who gets published as a result of a class taken at LSS with be given a free online radio interview with Lillian Cauldwell to promote the work.
- Quintessential Queries and Savvy Synopses with Jennifer Svendsen Delaney - for a novel, a memoir, a book of humor, or a narrative non-fiction work, learning the art of writing queries can help you move your project forward and, ultimately, get the attention of an agent. Query writing reveals the core of your manuscript. By boiling your project down to its essence, you will learn to choose the best words to pitch an agent and most accurately represent your book.
- Modern Poetry: Broaching the Avant-Garde with Jennifer Svendsen-Delany - this course will address concepts such as: stream of consciousness and surrealism as well as play with the elimination of punctuation and capitalization. You will craft concrete poems, poems based on dreams as well as others that include free verse with internal rhyme schemes. also in e-Book format.
- Setting the Hook with Jean Lauzier - improving your opening paragraphs. Learn how to grab your writer from the start.
- Self-Editing Made Easy - In this class, you'll learn how to cut (ouch) words, sentences, and paragraphs to make your story stronger, more believable, and more importantly – more publishable. Instructor: Roseanne Dowell
- Start Here - Basic Writing Skills with Patrika Vaughn - conquer your fears and start with the basics of plot, character development and fleshing out your story from beginning to end.
- Writing as Meditation with Chandra Ghosh Jain - Writing is way to express suppressed feelings. Life and writing get so intricately interwoven that life seems the tale of creation and the writer the carrier of the essence of life. also in e-Book format
- You, Me and Poetry with Floriana Hall - learn the basics of poetry including haiku, acrostic, tanka, personification, diamante, cinquains, clerihew, limericks and more - become a great poet! also in e-Book format
- How to Create a Buzz! with Cal Orey - This class is about how to recognized and accomplished in the topic you are writing about so your book/article will get the attention it deserves
- How to Make it as a Freelance Writer - with Cal Orey - If you’re like most writers, at some time you’ll probably hit a plateau—the point when it seems like you just can’t pull out of a big, fat slump. But the good news is, you can reprise your role as a prolific writer. So if you’re down, on the verge of suffering through a sales lull or trying to find a way out (or in), get prepared to write yourself out of a slump.
- Pitch Perfect - with Janet Wellington -Getting to the Heart of your Romance Novel or Women’s Fiction Story (for pitching and for querying) with Janet Wellington - learn to be able to present story ideas within query letters, synopses, and during frightening agent and editor appointments at writing conferences.
- Promoting Your Book Online with Francine Silverman - learn how to create, maintain and promote your website and get the word out to prospective purchasers
- Voice Over Training Class with instructor Ed Green - learn how to develop your voice, style, technique while mastering the recording studio. By the end of this course, you'll have a complete package to present to producers of forms of media, including commercials, movies and television. Who needs this course? You should ask, who doesn't? In other words, this course isn't just for those who wish to make a career choice, this is equivalent to a great public speaking course as well. If you're a teacher who wants to make greater impact on her students, a business person trying to climb the corporate ladder, a writer promoting a book doing book signings, readings and giving live radio and TV interviews or perhaps even a student who must give presentations, this course is for you! Your voice is your image - make a great impression when you speak and success will follow. Your fears will be assuaged, and you'll speak with the confidence you desire. Let's get started!
- Characters: The Heart of Your Story with Virginia McMorrow - Develop new fictional characters or fine- - tune existing characters – both protagonist and antagonist to see how they will interact – in your short stories and novels.
- Fiction in a Flash with Instructor Erin McKnight - During this six-week workshop, advanced writers looking to fine-tune their skills in brevity and control and aspiring writers interested in experimenting with this cutting-edge mode will have the opportunity to explore this in-demand form of writing. By the end of the course, writers will have produced two polished pieces of flash fiction. Each work will be critiqued in a supportive environment intended to celebrate the writer’s voice and vision, and will provide the feedback essential in the reviewing and editing stages of writing.
- Novel Building 101 with T.C. McMullen - will help you get started with your story from generating your idea into a strong novel backbone to writing the first chapter. Students will receive tip sheets along with personalized lessons and interaction through email with the instructor. This enables the instructor to comment directly on each student’s work file to better communicate the skills in each lesson. Those who complete the course will receive an ebook of writing tips.
- Novel Building 102 with T.C. McMullen - In this course, students will create passages of dialogue and of action, learn self editing skills and produce a strong synopsis. Each student will have at least one completed chapter for their book at the finish of this course. They will also have their storyline ready to be fleshed out and walk away with some knowledge of the publishing options available to novelists today.
- Show Don't Tell with Roseanne Dowell - bring your writing to life - learn how to use tag lines and strong verbs as well as other description to build strong characters and dialogue and much more!
- Soul Building: The Breathing Fictional Character - with T.C. McMullen - develop memorable characters - learn how to create a character who sees the world (or their world) from a different angle than you do and keep them real. Learn how to view, hear, smell and touch everything through their eyes and how to empathize with them even if you don’t always agree.
- Turning Ideas Into Fiction with Roseanne Dowell - great ideas for great stories - how to use everyday events, real life sights and sounds and media to develop your fiction
- World Building for Writers: Beyond the Science with Debra M. Kraft - tools to get your rough structure built beyond the realm of science. We will look into how your world is peopled. We will try to determine what makes the inhabitants 'tick' by considering what sort of experiences frame their thought processes and what tools they may have to guide their actions.
- Writing Fiction Express with Lea Schizas - intensive story writing - learn how to write great beginnings, create awesome conflicts and subplots and tie it all together for a great ending - you'll even learn how to find a publisher!
- Writing Children's Fiction with Lea Schizas - break into this hot market - learn how to target your audience, develop your story and find a publisher!
- Cookbook Writing 101 with Cal Orey - Break into into the lucrative world of writing about nutrition, health, food, and recipes.
- Fine Tuning the Senses with Jane Bernard - using the senses in your writing - 3 different courses with weekend workshop, 6 wk workshop & 6 mo workshop - Focusing on the senses turns the key, opening doors to your imagination. Fine tuning the Senses lets you access the passion that enables you to clarify your message. Upon completion of this workshop, you will feel empowered and inspired as a writer and a communicator.
- Journaling - the 'Write' Way to a Better Life with Erica Miner - self discovery through Journaling - Find out why journaling is such a life-altering tool and how self-dialogue can help you heal yourself. Transform your life by capturing your thoughts and feelings on paper and make Journaling fun, creative and rewarding.
- Writing the Non-Fiction Book Proposal - Instructor: Jean Lauzier - You will learn step by step each part of a non fiction book proposal and be guided through the process of putting your proposal together.
- Writing a Creative Memoir with Roseanne Dowell - Everyone has a story to tell, why not tell yours. Learn how to write your memoirs in a creative, exciting way. No one wants to read – "I was born on…" How much more interesting is – "I entered the world on November 6, 1940. Mother said right from the beginning she knew I’d be…"
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