Holly Lisle's Novel-Writing School
Career Curriculum
Novel-Writing School Career Courses are designed specifically for the fiction writer (in any genre or media) who wants to build a writing career. Here you'll learn how to write good fiction, but also how to market your work, how to work to deadline, and how to repeat the process year after year.
How To Think Sideways: Write fiction for a living.
In this course you'll learn to generate workable novel ideas when you need them; to plan out your novel while staying open to better ideas that occur while you write; to develop a compelling story that matters to you; to write gripping beginnings, fascinating middles, and powerful endings; to finish what you start; to do a basic revision; and most importantly, to think the way a professional novelist thinks about your work, your career, and your growth as a writer. Beginner through advanced
How To Revise Your Novel: Get the book you want from the book you wrote.
Comprehensive, in-depth one-pass revision. This process is critical to the working writer, who cannot afford to spend years and dozens of revision getting a book into publishable shape. Learn how to revise your novel completely, and right, the first time, so you can move on to your next book. Beginner through advanced
*Course requirement: Completed first-draft manuscript of at least 5000 words
How To Write A Series: Learn to write series that grab readers and hang on from first episode to last.
Understand how writing a series is different that writing stand-alones, discover where you have to build differently from the very beginning to make sure your series doesn't crash and burn in the middle or at the end, and develop the structure for a sustainable series that you'll love to write. Beginner-friendly, stand alone version includes Create A Plot Clinic. Included free as a graduation bonus with How To Revise Your Novel.
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Career Courses
Core Classes
Support
Free Plot Outline
Think Sideways
Revise Your Novel
Write A Series
Great Scenes
Character Clinic
Plot Clinic
Language Clinic
Culture Clinic
Clinic 4-Pack
Dialogue
Writing Discipline
Motivate Yourself
Beat Writer's Block
Work Thru Trauma
Writers' Shop