If your story lacks depth and connection --> you'll discover meaningful story ideas and voice.

If your characters are flat and aimless --> you'll create memorable deep characters.

If your story is stalled --> you'll develop defining moments and a misbelief to bring life into your story.

If your tension and conflict is dull --> you'll discover how to electrify your story.

Whether you are a novice writer or an experienced one, this course will help you!

On Starting a Story is a six-section course paired with the On Starting a Story workbook. Each section consists of lessons, activities, resources, and workbook pages to guide you in the process of creating, developing, writing, and revising any genre of fiction!

Section One: Introduction to the Story Core and Voice

Section Two: Hatching Your Story Ideas

Section Three: Developing Character Depth from Defining Moments and Misbelief

Section Four: Pacing and Plot with Tension and Conflict

Section Five: Setting and Worldbuilding

Section Six: Writing Page-Turning Prose

After more than 14 years of experience as a writer, editor, publisher, and teacher, I've designed this course for people wanting to learn more than the basics of writing. Even if you've never written a story, this course will help you, too. Too often writers reach some kind of block with their writing and stories. They've read the books on how to write, taken classes, and maybe gone to a writing conference or two. But their stories don't seem to have life breathed into them, and they wonder, "How do I make my story go from good to great? How do I write that story that people can't put down?"

On Starting a Story is here to help!

By the end of this course your writer's toolbox will be full of new tools to help you write deep memorable stories!