You may recall how I recently followed a great workshop by Rayne Hall organized by OIRWA.
Now, Rayne is offering a special free seminar aimed at self-isolating writers who wish to take advantage of the pandemic downtime to hone their writing skills.
Course description: Power up your Fiction
The pandemic crisis creates intense emotions and magnifies character traits. Use your observations, feelings, and experiences to enrich your works in progress, deepen characterization, intensify conflicts, and add realism to tense situations.
The assignments in this course will make you a better writer, and at the same time, you’ll reap the therapeutic benefits.
We will not write about the pandemic. Once this is all over, and the last thing people want to read and buy is pandemic stories. Instead, we’ll extrapolate your observations and apply them to the kind of fiction you write.
This is an intensive four-week seminar, with lessons and practical assignments every day. It is suitable for fiction writers of almost all levels (Rayne doesn’t recommend it for absolute beginners.) We’ll start on 24 April 2020 and work together until 23 May. You can emerge from this seminar a stronger writer.
The course is FREE to writers who are in quarantine or voluntarily self-isolating.
There is no catch. This seminar is Rayne’s gift to writers. She wants to encourage responsible social distancing, and she wants to help people keep safe and sane.
Feel free to tell other (quarantined or isolating) writers about it.
jenanita01 said:
This will keep our minds on what’s important… looking forward to it!
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
Rayne is a great teacher. I hope you find the course useful 🙂
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Charles Yallowitz said:
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beetleypete said:
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A great offer, featured on Nick’s blog. A FREE online writing course to give you something new to do in the lockdown. Follow the link to sign up.
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jowensauthor said:
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The Story Reading Ape said:
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OIKOS™-Publishing said:
Thank you for the information, Nicholas! Stay well and save. Michael
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
Thank you, Michael! You too 🙂
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OIKOS™-Publishing said:
Thank you, Nicholas! 🙂
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wilfredbooks said:
Great idea! Cheers, Jon.
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
Yes, it was awfully nice of her 🙂
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wilfredbooks said:
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If you want to write good fiction (but you’re not an absolute beginner), you can sign up fro this free online course, starting tomorrow: just follow the link in the post.
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janetsm said:
Thanks for sharing this info!
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
A pleasure! I hope you find it useful 🙂
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Sumita Tah said:
Looking forward to the course.
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
I hope you find it useful, Sumita 🙂
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Sumita Tah said:
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cagedunn said:
Reblogged this on Cage Dunn: Writer, Author, Teller-of-tall-tales and commented:
A free seminar – Power Up Your Writing with Rayne Hall:
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Miriam Hurdle said:
Thank you for the info, Nicholas.
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
Hope you find it useful, Miriam 🙂
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Miriam Hurdle said:
It is, Nicholas. 😊
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tweetingmynah said:
Guess…I am late for the course now.
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
Sorry! I’m sure there will be plenty more, though. Even the paid ones are pretty cheap – and well worth the price (usually around $25-35).
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tweetingmynah said:
I have been looking for online creative writing courses lately and have shortlisted a few.
How about “write fiction like a pro” ? Have you any idea about this one? They have many writing courses and well, are pricey, but if it is really worth it, I might think.
Hope m not troubling you.
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
Not troubling me at all. The course I took was by Rayne Hall, whom I trust as I’ve taken several of her courses. I’m not sure what your expectations might be, so I don’t know how you define as being worth it. For me, I wanted some ideas on villains (in this course) and suspense-building (in a previous course). Rayne offered me those along with some valuable feedback on my exercises. But she won’t hold your hand and always treats you like an adult: she makes comments and you’re free to follow or ignore them. Personally, that appeals to me. But if you want someone more proactive, this approach may disappoint you.
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tweetingmynah said:
I would like this approach. Need a gentle but firm criticism of my writing. Anyway, it was great of you to help me suggest things about creative writing. You give very honest responses. Thank you mate!
Would get back to you after I complete a writing course sometime soon. 🙂 till then, will follow what you post.
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Nicholas C. Rossis said:
Thank you! I always strive to share what I find out about publishing, writing, and book promos, so it’s good to be appreciated 🙂
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