Event Type: Half-day, online workshop offered by The Writing Barn, taught by Stephanie Storey
Sunday, November 17, 2019, 2-5 pm CST
Cost: $75/$65 if you are a SCBWI/WLT member
After working as a producer in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years, Stephanie Storey used her Hollywood storytelling skills to turn her debut novel, Oil and Marble, into a runaway hit, garnering a glowing review from The New York Times, making several bestseller lists including The Los Angeles Times, and selling out of her first printing within the first week of publication. That novel has now been translated into 6 languages and is in development as a feature film. In this class, Storey will teach you how to harness the power of story so you can write fiction that will catch the eyes and hearts of agents, editors, publishers, media, and the reading public.
“’Tremendously entertaining,’ says The New York Times is the greatest compliment I’ve ever received,” Storey says. “I want to teach everyone how to tell such a great story that the reader can’t put your book down.”
Storey will push you to serve story first and teach you the tricks that will make your story rise above the rest.
Storey combines the craft of prose fiction writing with lessons from her years in Hollywood—including tips from screenwriting, acting, producing, directing, cinematography, set design, costuming, sound mixing, and editing—to help the beginning writer build a strong foundation or help the professional writer take their craft to the next level. Storey will teach you how to apply filmic structure to your fiction, introduce you to the craft of acting to help you dive deeper into your characters, and use tricks from the world’s best editors to help your stories move as fast as a Hollywood film.
By distilling down twenty years of study into screenwriting, acting, filmmaking and fiction writing, Storey will teach you how to not only stay true to your voice, create compelling characters, and tell honest stories, but also how to entertain your audience, ensuring that they keep turning those pages.
This class is intended for fiction and nonfiction writers of any genre who want to tell more entertaining stories. Her classes always include Q&A and will leave you with concrete plans to push your writing to the next level.