Next class begins November 12th (45 spaces only)
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Mastering Line-by-Line in Fiction: A Live Scene Writing Workshop is a 6-week group training and 1-on-1 workshopping program designed to ensure you level up your dialogue and scene writing.
Limited to 50 students, this will provide the perfect environment to get specific feedback and instruction to level up your skills as a writer.
Mastering Line-by-Line in Fiction: A Live Scene Writing Workshop is for any writer that’s ready to put in the time and gain the skills to improve their writing. It will work for any writer at any point in their writing as it will give you the skill development you need to improve all of your future writing.
Mastering Line-by-Line in Fiction: A Live Scene Writing Workshop is hosted online. The weekly 90-minute training and group workshopping will be hosted on Zoom and the dedicated cohort discussion channel will be hosted on Slack. You will be able to submit your homework for the weekly group workshop via Google Docs.
The first week will be focused on training, reviewing Masterwork example scenes, and reviewing the first week’s assignment. In the following five live calls, we will do a small amount of training, but use most of the time workshopping your homework scenes submitted from the previous week. In between the live calls, you will have daily group exercises in the Cohort Discussion Channel.
The first live training is Tuesday, November 12th at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern. You will be able to access the discussion channel on Sunday the 10th. From there, we will meet each week on Tuesday at the same time for six weeks.
We want to help writers gain the skills they need to write a book and leave a legacy. The most important skill to master is writing a great scene, so we want to spend six weeks helping you level up this all-important skill.
Each week you will receive clear, actionable instruction on what makes a great scene writing.
Each week you will write a scene and turn it into your Story Grid Coach. Your Coach will give you specific feedback on what you did right, what you did wrong, and assign custom homework so you can improve in the coming week.
Each week you will participate in analyzing both masterwork and student scenes in order to learn how to analyze your own writing.
Every weekday, we will post a daily group exercise to practice the micro skills being taught each week during the live training.
All of the students will have access to a private Slack channel to discuss the weekly training, participate in the daily group exercises, and collaborate together throughout the six week workshop.
You will retain future access to all recordings of the live training and workshops to review in the future.
Coach and Trainer
Allison Fairhurst is a fiction writer, book coach, and story nerd though and through.
She studied Fine Arts in College and Literature and Creative Writing at University. After graduating in 2012, she continued on her path to learn the craft of writing and editing through workshops, masterclasses, many books, and of course, Story Grid.
Coach and Trainer
Kallista Foote is a lifelong student of storytelling. She is a Story Grid Certified Editor, where she mastered the demanding art of diagnosing story problems accurately and recommending effective solutions to authors. She also studies book coaching through Author Accelerator, where she’s learned how to cultivate a writer’s potential.
Her passion lies in providing authors with the structure needed to continually build competence, fostering a safe environment for them to learn from mistakes, and maintaining high standards of excellence. This ensures that every writer she works with can approach the market with their head held high.
Coach and Trainer
Julia Blair is a developmental editor and story coach whose mission is to help writers strengthen their commitment to craft, improve technical skills, and develop storytelling expertise. Specializing in action and worldview genres, her manuscript wish list includes character-driven novels, epic and urban fantasy, pre-modern historical fiction, found families, redemption arcs, and reinterpreted fairy and folk tales.
One of the original SG Certified Editors, she believes the Story Grid method is among the most effective tools a writer can leverage.
Tim is the CEO of Story Grid Universe and the Publisher of Story Grid Publishing.
He has written five books including the novel The Threshing and the nonfiction perennial sellers Running Down a Dream and Your First 1000 Copies. His next book, The Shithead, is due out in Spring 2024.
For the last eight years, he has studied under Shawn Coyne, world-class editor and writer, and helped thousands of writers create books they are proud to have written.
We know there are so many writing programs, workshops, seminars, and courses making big promises just to take your money, without you seeing any real improvement in your writing.
We don’t want to be one of those!
So here’s our deal with you: If you turn in your scene every week throughout the workshop and, at the end, don’t feel like you’ve made significant improvement in your writing… we require that you ask for a refund.
We want you to be thrilled with the results and, if you’re not, we want to make it right. All you have to do is email [email protected] and let us know, and we’ll process your refund.
The meetings will take place on Tuesdays at 3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific (convert to your timezone) starting November 12th. If you are unable to join live, the recording will be provided within twenty-four hours of the meeting.
Not at all! In fact, learning these fundamental skills of scene writers will save you years of trying to figure it out on your own.
Each week when you turn in your scene, a Story Grid Coach will read and analyze the scene using the Story Grid Methodology. They will annotate your scene and record a video walking through what you did right, what you did wrong, and how to improve in the coming week.
The first week, you will be given an assignment to write a scene that is a maximum of 800 words. You will have 5 days to turn submit your scene to your coach.
From then on, your coach will give you an assignment each week to match what you need to improve on based on the feedback they give to you.
Yes! Each week a Story Grid Coach will review and provide feedback on your scene along with specific steps to take to improve for the following week. This includes specific homework for you to practice in order to improve.
The analyzation will be given in the form of an annotated version of your scene plus a video walking you through what you did right, what you did wrong, and what you need to improve on in the coming week.
We have found it does not work well if you bring in previous writing you have done or write scenes that you hope to publish. This workshop is focused on practice and skill development. We want to help you level up your skills here so you can write better for the rest of your life.
Because we only have 50 seats available, we recommend you secure your spot as soon as possible. This will ensure we create the best learning environment possible for all of the students.
We offer a 100% money-back guarantee. If you get to the end of the six weeks and feel that you have not improved as a writer, we want you to ask for your money back.
However, the only way this workshop will work for you is if you go through the weekly training and complete the writing assignments. Therefore, when you ask for a refund, we will ask you to send us your completed assignments so we can see you actively engaged in the program.
We recommend you do not join the program if you cannot commit to going through the weekly 90-minute training and completing the weekly writing assignments.
Email [email protected] and we will get back to you quickly.