Put Your Novel to the Test

June 22, 29 & July 6, 13

Thousand Oaks
Saturday Afternoon Fiction Intensive Workshop

Four focused sessions stress story, character, point of view,
charged dialogue, pacing, plot, creating scenes,
and, most important of all — MARKETABILITY.

Limited to six writers

Working on a novel you’d like to put to the test? Want to improve your writing, sharpen your self editing skills? Raise the quality of your writing several levels? Tea with Toni workshops focus on:

• Your opening page (velocity vs. set up)
• Your voice
• Your character’s defining moment
• Refining point of view
• Using the six senses
• Writing powerful sentences; knowing what to cut
• Importance of eccentricity in characters
• Intensifying the intimacy of your characters
• How to create drama
• Story vs plot
• Avoiding reader feeder
• Your show vs tell ratio

…and much more.

Plus, gain insights from a former New York
Executive Editor.

Toni Lopopolo believes in cultivating new writers, assisting them in their growth and goals to become published authors.  “Tea With Toni” workshops focus on the skills writers must master to get their projects published.

BONUS: Each writer will receive a thoroughly edited copy of their pages from Toni each week.

Saturday from 1 to 5 PM
Thousand Oaks
$255

For further information please email: lopopolobooks@aol.com
or call Toni at (215) 353-1151

LIVE Online Workshops in the Comfort of Your Own Home

What Students Say  “You have some exciting stuff to write about. We’ve all struggle with the same problems, and many of us still do.  It’s hard to condense when you have so much to say.  Believe me, I know.  You’ll be surprised how fast Toni will have your writing 100% better.” Shirley, Moorpark  CA