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· Biker Therapist

· Black Messiahs

· Don't Forget to Breathe

· Covering Ronald Reagan

· Audacious Living Podcast

· Life After Loss

· Grappling with Grief


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From Novice to Novelist
By John DeDakis
Last edited: Friday, February 16, 2024
This short story is rated "G" by the Author.
       
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A Bird's Eye View of the Novel Writing Process


  My upcoming online workshop deconstructs and demystifies the novel-writing process for struggling and/or aspiring writers.

We’ll go all the way from getting the nub of an idea to getting your book into the hands of expectant fans.

Along the way you’ll learn how to stay organized, write in the voice of other genders, the art of rewriting, and how to overcome your writing and marketing fears.

By the end of our time together you’ll be prepared to begin work on a novel and will be equipped with the skills to perfect it.

The sessions will include time for writing, and for being critiqued.

Details/Register here: 

https://writer.org/event/from-novice-to-novelist/


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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 16, 2024
I went to The Writers Center and checked it out. I would admit that I'm still in the need of advice and help when it comes to novel writing, but I don't have the fears that you express, or the procrastination that so many writers here indicate they have. My cup runneth over with ideas I have no time to write with all of my projects ongoing.

From your experience, I have no doubt that you will deliver what you say, and any author here who is in need of novel writing help should consider your seminar. I dove into novel writing about 1997 and haven't looked back. Recently, my writers group has taken a fine tooth comb view of my writing and tried to change, both uses of life experiences and vernacular of the author away for a more standard and staid literary correctness. I take the improvements but find the slights, irksome.

Good luck with it, but I respectively bow out.

Ron