Ever wonder whether there is a different way to write your book?
That is other than the way you've been doing it?
It doesn't matter whether you are spinning a fictional tale or working on a
nonfiction book, the method you use when you actually sit down at the keyboard
may or may not be the best to use for a particular book.

That's what Plotter or Pantser: Finding Your Style Niche is all about.

If you received one of the cards above in a goody bag at a conference or have
arrived here via the RomanceAndMystery website, you're hoping to find out
exactly what we'll be doing in this course. Right?

As the card says, you'll be test driving two different styles of writing a book.

What you will need to begin this four week course:
1) an idea of a book, be it fiction or nonfiction,
but one you haven't begun work on yet
(We just want a glimmer to build on)

AND

2) another idea for a book you have yet to begin,
and again it can be fiction or nonfiction,
but you shouldn't have done any work on it yet.

What we will be doing is spending two weeks on the first idea, only putting it
together as a dyed-in-the-wool Plotter would, working out each step to be taken.

Then we'll spend the second part of the month working on the second
book idea, only doing it as a Pantser (an Organic writer), just letting it flow.

By the end of the month you'll not only have experienced the two different styles,
you'll have begun work on two different books.

You'll also have received feedback on the assignments turned in.
I hope to have them winging back to you
within 24 to 36 hours of receiving them.

Now, why am I qualified to teach this course?

Well, writing as Beth Henderson, Lisa Dane, Beth Cruise, Elizabeth Daniels,
and more recently, J.B. Dane,
I have had 26 novels published in a variety of niches
and have used both methods in the past.

I'm also fresh off of over a dozen years of teaching English Composition,
Fundamentals of Communication, and Novel Writing at two community colleges.
I have a bachelor degree in History and a masters in English Composition and
Rhetoric with an emphasis on Creative Writing. Yeah, a mouthful, isn't it?

My students say I give helpful suggestions and reasons why what I suggest
would be more effective than another approach.
And if they are still confused,
well, I find another way to say the same thing so that they will understand.
Of my former Novel Class students, five of them are now published.

Tempted, tantalized, eager to go? Well....

To register for this class, or for information on the cost
visit Colorado Romance Writers' Online Class information at
  ColoradoRomanceWriters.Org

Hope to see you in August online.
If you have any other questions, feel free to zip an e-mail off to
Beth@RomanceAndMystery.com
Use "Online Class Question" in the subject line. Thanks!