Gay romance fiction

Writers for Diversity - January 2021 master class

I'm presenting a Protagonist/Antagonist master class for Writers for Diversity on 30 Jan 2021. Many thanks for joining us to flex your craft muscles!

ZOOM link: Dynamic Duo: worthy adversaries (a Writers for Diversity workshop)

We're going to have a hefty session covering a lot of content; I know people sometimes forget to note book titles and such, so if you're interested in additional recommended craft or critical reading I have some suggestions below. There's also more information about my Verbalization method here.

SInce all of this happening online, I wanted y'all to have easy access to digital copies of my handouts which I've hotlinked below including a couple extras.

n.b. These handouts did not fall from the sky. Please don't share the files or this link with anyone who didn't attend the January 2021 WfD masterclass.

"For an endless moment, Runt imagined the crooked corporation had folded and they’d been forgotten, laughing and living together under these perfect suns, waiting for wives that would never come, happily hunting fresh meat at the sharp edge of the galaxy." (Grown Men - D. Suede)

THE BOOKVerbalize: bring life to stories and stories to lifeS

After much nudging and prodding from workshop students, I finally sat down and wrote a guide for authors looking to amp their stories and streamline their writing process. Verbalize is a guide to characterization and story planning which eschews the bandaids and quick-fixes that plague writing instruction, in favor of simple, practical language-based solutions that make an instant difference to the process and product of your writing at any experience level.

Verbalize presents a new approach to character and structure that jumpstarts drafting, crafting, revision, and pitching. Blast past overused tics and types with storycraft that busts your ruts and awes your audience. Whether you like to wing it or bring it, this writer guide offers a fresh set of user-friendly tools to populate your pages and lay the foundations of unforgettable genre fiction.

Activate: a thesaurus of actions & tactics for dynamic genre fictionAdditionally, students have been asking for a thesaurus of transitive verbs specific to genre fiction, and it launched 16 April 2019. Activate is an author's thesaurus of active, transitive verbs for use in verbalizing stories in any genre. This guide offers 5,300 unique character actions, sorted alphabetically, as well as by genre and direction, to help writers energize their process and projects at every stage. The ebook edition contains over 190k links for easy navigation.

"For an endless moment, Runt imagined the crooked corporation had folded and they’d been forgotten, laughing and living together under these perfect suns, waiting for wives that would never come, happily hunting fresh meat at the sharp edge of the galaxy." (Grown Men - D. Suede)

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