STORY MASTERY

with

Michael Hauge

During this special, all-day seminar, Hollywood script and story consultant Michael Hauge, best-selling author of Writing Screenplays That Sell and Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read, will present his unique approach to creating compelling fiction, and to eliciting emotion in your readers. Using clips from recent blockbuster love stories and romantic comedies, along with hands on exercises, Michael will help you strengthen your story concepts, plot structure, love stories, character development and themes.

Topics covered will include:

• The primary goal of all story
• The power of desire, need, longing and destiny
• The essential conflict all characters must face
• Turning plot structure from a complicated concept into a simple, powerful tool you can easily apply to every story
• The single key to creating character arc and theme
• Creating unique, believable and fulfilling love stories
• The unique rules of romantic comedy: fantasy, duality, deceit
• Adapting your novel to film

If you want to elevate your fiction writing to the highest possible level, this event is a must.

Free Your Creative Mind

with

Kelly L Stone

Maximize your limited writing time by learning how to tap into your most powerful and underutilized writer’s resource–your subconscious mind. In this three-hour workshop, licensed mental health counselor, author, and creativity expert Kelly L Stone will teach you easy-to-learn techniques for accessing your subconscious mind in ways that will help you get unlimited ideas, work out problems with your stories, receive career guidance, build your confidence as a writer, and much more. Audience members will  be given the opportunity to practice some of the techniques in class.