You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London
Every writer knows that learning to write great fiction isn’t easy. There’s nothing tougher than sitting down to a blank page and trying to figure out how to get all your wonderful ideas on paper. You have an amazing story to tell, but how exactly do you go about it?
There’s no shortage of advice out there. You can find it on the Internet, in books, in college writing classes, in workshops and seminars, but it often seems as if that advice is contradictory or downright counterproductive.
So who can you trust to give it to you straight?
Brett Battles and Robert Gregory Browne have been writing fiction professionally for over twenty-five years. Their critically acclaimed thrillers — written separately — have been published all over the world, including the United States, Britain, France, Ireland, Germany, Russia, Bulgaria and the Netherlands.
When they teach the craft of writing — in both their live and online workshops — their approach is simple: nothing but the facts. No BS, no fancy feel-good words, just plain tried and true, nuts and bolts techniques that they’ve developed after many years of hard work that will help put you on the fast path to publication.
When Battles and Browne talk writing, they talk premise and plot, structure, narrative, voice, characterization and dialog.
They let you in on the secrets that have served them well, taking them from aspiring authors to working professionals. Techniques that can not only make the long, hard slog of writing a novel easier, but can deepen your work and give it that polish that helps attract agents, editors and publishers.
Are they miracle workers? Of course not. But if your goal is to write a better novel, Battles and Browne will do their level best to help you achieve that goal.
Click on the Workshops tab above to find out what exciting new learning experiences Battles and Browne have to offer.
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary – it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. ~Somerset Maugham