This comprehensive writing course covers four main areas: discovering and developing BIG ideas (high concepts), structuring compelling plots using BIG story drivers, creating BIG characters, and elevating your writing to make it more powerful and emotive.

Not only will students learn the theory behind these story elements, but they"ll also receive practical techniques and tricks they can apply to their own writing. Topics include:

The concept of high concept
Elements that make stories BIG
Selling your concept
Storyboarding
Story drivers
Plot and structure
Using scene structure to drive story
Pacing
Writing in the shadows
Advanced character development tricks
Using description to reflect character
Making your scenes more immediate
Making your dialog whetter
Mixing up moods
Emotive writing techniques
Etc.

NOTE: After teaching a new writing technique, John likes to demonstrate its use by editing real-life writing samples in front of the class. If you"re planning to attend the Advanced Writing Class and are willing to have a small portion of your manuscript anonymously edited (and hopefully improved) in front of the whole class, please send John a 20 page writing sample. Contact information is available at www.litany.com.