This class focuses on creating an amazing setting. Yamile Saied Mendez leads you through using the temporal, environmental, and individual aspects of a story to create a believable world. Also includes how to describe your world to make the reader feel like they are there as well tools you can us...

In this class Emma Nelson uses the basics of video games to teach important concepts of story writing. She relates this to creating great characters, building amazing worlds, and leaving the right questions in the reader's mind.

This class is for anyone who is a fan of either Marissa Meyer, Kendare Blake or Jennifer Lynn Barnes. If you've ever had questions about their favorite books, why they wrote their books, what is hard and what is rewarding for them as authors, this class is for you.

Enjoy this keynote talk by Kendare Blake in which she walks you through her workspace, a day in her life when she's figuring out story ideas, and most importantly how to deal with distraction.

Have you ever wanted writing to be your career? This class is for you. Phillip Chipping details possible jobs you can pursue as well as outlining the fundamentals of StoryBrand--an amazing marketing tool for anyone wanting to pursue writing as a career. Along with this, he relates all of the mark...

Join Alexander Delacroix as he teaches you all things fictional tension related. You will learn overarching ways to create tension in the general storyline, how to create it within your main character, and how to write a great cliffhanger at the ends of chapters or series.

In this class Nova McBee teaches you all things related to structure and plotting. Giving you the basics of the most common plotting methods, you will learn about three act structure, index cards, snowflake method, Save the Cat and storyboarding. She gives special attention to inciting incidents ...

This class focuses on creating amazing antagonists and/or villains. Jennifer Nielsen teaches you the differences between heroes and villains,common major and minor motives of villains, finding the core emotion for your villain, and the questions you need to ask yourself in order to create a well-...

In this class Kathryn Purdie walks you through how to raise your stakes higher and higher as your story progresses. Some topics include how to get readers to like and understand your main character and antagonist, what the death stake is, internal and external stakes, and tips for making the stak...

In this class Tiffany Rosenhan gives advice for keeping readers engaged in your story. She covers why it is harder to engage now than it was in the past, common mistakes writers make in the opening pages, and what to do in those opening pages to ensure your readers keep reading.

This class focuses on commercial aspects of writing and how to use your writing skill in the radio, tv, and movie industries. Tom Durham covers the use of visual and aural writing, word choice, storyboarding and screenwriting to make your writing stronger overall.

A more advanced class, Jo Schaffer-Layton leads you through narrowing down your writing to the best words. The focus is on technical writing, but applies to all aspects of writing. Includes how to find the extraneous words, common wordiness mistakes, and how to cut unnecessary words.

This class focuses on the setting of your story. Sara B. Larson teaches you how to make the setting a secondary character in your book. It includes making your setting unique, how to relate your setting to the characters, and ultimately what descriptions to include to make the setting come alive.

In this class you will learn all about the publishing world. Shelly Brown teaches you what you should focus on now as well as what you should do in the future if you want to be published. It includes writing a query letter, self publishing and different places you can publish as well as how to kn...

This class teaches you how to use your characters to help plot your story. Erin Stewart leads you through an entire character driven plot structure as well as showing you which parts of the story are crucial to character arc plotting.

In this class, Dustin Hansen leads you through the evolution of storytelling, from the earliest writing to current technological storytelling elements of today. As a bonus, the entire class is taught through the lens of video game writing, and how you can use the idea of video games to increase y...

This class focuses on writing romance. Author Jennifer Jenkins covers the common tropes of romance and how each trope ties to tension in a book. She includes laws of romantic tension as well as a ranked list of highest tension actions associated with romance.

In this class, Tricia Levenseller teaches you all you need to know about inciting incidents, including a formula for creating one, where to put it, and how to make it great. The end of class includes a question and answer session that has a lot of information about publishing books.

This class focuses on the mechanics of character desire to help you flesh out your characters and build a plot around the characters true motivations and needs. Heather Clark details different types of obstacles to create for your characters as well as how to raise the stakes with those obstacles...

In this interactive class Aminah Mae Safi talks all things retell. It is a must for anyone interested in writing fan faction or putting new spins on old stories. She defines common writing acronyms you'll see often as a writer and leads you through planning out your own retell.

What should be included when planning out a story world? This class covers the important aspects to flesh out and know about your setting when building a new story world. Margaret Owen breaks it down by genre and time and also teaches you how to use the world to build tension in your plot.

This class is deep dive into revision. An editor herself, Kaela Rivera covers a hierarchy of revision, methods for revision, how to know when your book is ready for submission, and how to take critique. Whether you are a newbie to revision or have been doing it for years, this class is for you.