This workshop will demonstrate step-by-step how to create and set up an author website using WordPress. It will cover name registration and hosting using a provider such as Go Daddy or Hostgator, theme selection, plugins and widgets, layout and design, content and blogging, usability issues and navigation, internal and external links, customization.

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Learn how to use Magic in your Fantasy with Rebekah

What is Magic ?
Classes of Magic (Nature, Fire, Water, Air, Destruction, Earth, Death, Life etc.)
Ways to use magic (Potions, scrolls, spellbooks, wands, incantations)
Are you a Wizard, a Sorcerer or a Fae?
What is the cost of magic?
What limitations should you put on magic?
How much magic is too much?

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Ready to go it alone and venture down the path to indie publishing? If you've thought about the work ahead and the potential expenses, have you considered crowdfunding to raise an advance for your book and get it off on the right foot?
This class will go over the basics of crowdfunding and provide a look at winning author campaigns--and how to apply them to your own crowdfunding!

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This workshop explores the elements needed to show a character's emotional arc from opening page to ending scene. You will learn techniques that enable you to tug at a reader's heartstrings. How and when to launch into emotional introspection and when not to. Blend emotion and story conflict and learn when and how to emphasize each. Manage your characters' emotions by learning how to manipulate your readers' emotions. Entice your readers to follow your characters' emotional upheavals and...

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It's long been known that the strongest geometric shape is the triangle. The Egyptians, the Romans and the cathedral builders of the Renaissance all used the triangle in their architecture because of its ability to "bear strong loads without deformation." In other words, triangles are good things to build with.
That goes for plot structure too. If you can get the three main plot points strong enough, interwoven enough and clear enough, your triangle will hold your story together, just as a...

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Every story can benefit from an authentic, fully realized setting. By asking the right questions, the writer can immerse readers in a specific environment, time period, and culture. Whether it's a galaxy far, far away or your own backyard, a detailed setting can engage your reader and sharpen your conflict

Make contemporary stories as exciting and surprising as SF and fantasy by moving past assumptions. Make invented worlds as real and believable as the town you live in. The class will...

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Mindful Creating, aka How to get the most from your muse when you want it, is a month-long workshop focusing on quieting, focusing and working with your creative mind. You’ve taken your Inner Writer on artist dates and talked to her in morning pages; you’ve tried all the writing software and attended all the workshops. You may have plotted six thousand books you haven’t written yet or learned to write a book in a month. And whatever you’ve done is good, but it’s the dating and courtship stage....

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Learn what it takes to be an emergency medical technician, how they work, movies and books vs. reality, types of skill sets, and much more.
Questions about EMS? Have a scene you’re working on or planning to write?
In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll get your questions answered, feedback on scenes, and weekly writing assignments to help you move your writing along.
This workshop will include a class chat to be scheduled at a time that works best for the majority of the class.

The...

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Do you place characterization in one category and plotting in another? They are extensions of each other. In this class you'll find out how. Topics covered include: Building characters, point of view, backstory, saggy middles, scene and sequel, GMC. This course is updated and will include a bonus section on writing sensual.

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Do you place characterization in one category and plotting in another? They are extensions of each other. In this class you'll find out how. Topics covered include: Building characters, point of view, backstory, saggy middles, scene and sequel, GMC. This course is updated and will include a bonus section on writing sensual.

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An introduction to fighting scenes in a fantasy setting. Going over the following subjects:

• Armor (types, uses, putting it on, taking it off)
• Weaponry (Melee and ranged weapons, pros and cons, best weapons for classes)
• Using Magic (wizard vs. sorcerer, how much is too much, the cost of magic)
• Healing (herbs, paranormal, magic, potions)
• Difference in Male and Female Fighting along with race and class (how we're built, what's the best technique for each sex)
• Character...

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Class 1: Developing realistic fight Scenes in Fantasy Setting

An introduction to fighting scenes in a fantasy setting. Going over the following subjects:

• Armor (types, uses, putting it on, taking it off)
• Weaponry (Melee and ranged weapons, pros and cons, best weapons for classes)
• Using Magic (wizard vs. sorcerer, how much is too much, the cost of magic)
• Healing (herbs, paranormal, magic, potions)
• Difference in Male and Female Fighting along with race and...

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Novelists and Dramatists alike need to be able to summarize their stories in succinct 1-4 page synopsis format for marketing purposes. Do you know how to take that screenplay or 60,000-100,000 word novel to a mere 500 words and maintain the vigor and enthralling intensity of character and plot? Since busy agents, editors and producers REQUIRE a synopsis, you better know how to create one that will hold their attention! In Sally Walker's eight sessions, you will learn how to focus and summarize...

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It does! They're both examples of chronic procrastination, and as such can be resolved using the same techniques and tools. Longtime SavvyAuthors favorite Hillary Rettig, a master at helping people get more productive in their writing and life, invites you to join her for a unique class that will not just help you lose weight, but might even help you get more writing done! You'll learn what weight-related procrastination truly is (hint: NOT laziness or lack of discipline willpower), what causes...

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50 Shades of Gray began as fanfiction. Elements of The Mortal Instrument series by Cassandra Clare originated in her own fanfiction. One could argue that the authorized continuation of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, as well as the movie Clueless, (a contemporary version of Jane Austen's Emma), and every incarnation of Sherlock Holmes has been a form of fanfiction as well. Fanfiction is a safe way to master your writing skills on a subject that you're passionate about--and...

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How do you make someone care about your story and the characters in it? Kat will show you a variety of ways to get readers to care. This workshop includes lessons on word choices and grammar, ways to use sensory imagery, body language, showing and telling and emotion to connect with readers. Kat explains how to present characters with clear, concise goals that readers will root for and hooks that keep readers on the edges of their seats. Got a story or scene that you can't seem to get readers...

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Overview of a standard publishing contract. The course prepares writers for what to expect when they are ready to sign. The lessons also educate authors who have already entered into contracts as to what they can expect from the publisher based on the basic language in publishing contracts.

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How many times have you started writing a new book idea but lost steam after the first few chapters? It happens to all of us.

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If you attended SavvyAuthors Pitch Perfect last year, you're going to love the enhanced event for 2014! In one month, SavvyAuthors will prepare you to pitch, post opportunites to pitch, and provide resources to help you continue on your path to publication.

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A brief overview of how to use Join.me's presenter/host functions. Pilfered from another company but pretty useful

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