Schedule of Weekly Therapy Topics

  • Saturday: Loosen up! Books, gadgets, and other miscellaneous items to help us write!
  • Monday: Nurturing the Soul
  • Tuesday: Doc's Exam (a look at writing craft!)
  • Wednesday: Presciptions: Exercises and How-to's -- a follow up to the Doctor's Exam!
  • Thursday: Case Studies: Examples from current movies and books..
  • Friday: House Calls - critique of your work from the BT team!

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Book Therapy topics 2008!

Embark with us on the Heroes Journey!  We'll be studying the structure of an Epic Novel, taking it apart step by step to uncover the secrets of a best-selling novel! 

Get your subscription to My Book Therapy today and don't miss an of the exciting chapters!

Here's a syllabus of the pit stops we'll be making along the way: 

The Writer's World and Discipline

Premise

3 Steps to a great hero

3 Steps to a great heroine

Using the GREATEST devices: Great Fear/Greatest Dream

Competing Values

StoryWorld

Inciting Incident

Hook

Building a Scene

Stakes

Goals

Backstory

Secondary Characters

Dialogue

POV

Inner Monologue

Writing Tension in a Scene

Weaving in Spiritual Threads

Romance - Love me Tender

Villains

Writing Suspense - Structure

Emotional Layering

Subplots - how they affect the heroes world and create new stakes

Writing Character change without overwriting

Writing High Action scenes

The Black Moment

Epiphany

New Story World

Using Metaphor and Symbolism/Theme

Editing Techniques

Synopsis writing

Agents Spotlight

Publishers Spotlight

Get your Daily Dose!

Join the Voices!

Learn to write a novel!

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Susan May Warren

  • As an award-winning author of nearly twenty books, Susan May Warren has been an American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) BOTY (Book of the Year) and Genesis judge, a Romance Writer’s of America RITA judge, and an IRCC (Inspirational Reader’s Choice Contest) judge. Susan taught the past four years at the ACFW national conference, including the 2006 Beginning Writer’s track. Susan holds a B.A. in Mass Communication and English from the University of Minnesota school of journalism. She excels in characterization, and creating a story with impact.

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Rachel Hauck

  • Rachel Hauck is a multi-published author of romance and chick lit. Readers and reviewers agree Rachel writes tight prose and great characters. Setting, dialog, voice and pacing are her strengths, as well as looking for a story's unique spiritual angle. Rachel also has a keen editorial eye for symbolism and underlying themes. Writing for over twenty years, Rachel has a BA in Journalism from Ohio State University. Rachel is also teaching the Chick Lit continuing education course at the 2007 American Christian Romance Writer's conference in Dallas.

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