 Sunday NOVEMBER 13, 10:00 am – 5± pm Click Here to Register |
| Now you can! Literary agent Toni Lopopolo will help you craft your manuscript into a marketable book. A former executive editor at Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, Toni knows what it takes to get a book published. During this intensive workshop, you will work together on the skills necessary to author a successful memoir by facing what is meant by “the truth” and how to achieve “personal honesty” while pulling together the bits and pieces of memory into a dramatic narrative flow.
You will practice writing scenes to break up long narratives as well as dialog recreation. You will learn how to use vivid detail, active voice, active verbs to entice and draw the reader into your story. Then we will find the defining moments that made real life spin on its axis and change one’s life forever You will hear your writing read aloud by the instructor with comments by other attending memoirists. We’ll discuss the impact of your story, the sense of drama or lack of. And we’ll discuss what publishing editors look for in a memoir. You will receive a reading list that will grow as you become a better narrative nonfiction writer. Here are the skills we will discuss in detail during the memoir intensive workshop: |
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Toni’s methods help you master the skills necessary to become a successful published author in today’s competitive market. Fiction and today’s narrative nonfiction, which includes memoir, must grab publishing editors’ attention, keep them riveted so that they’ll read the entire manuscript and not stop when the story falters. Learn special techniques for creating extraordinary stories, in both fiction and nonfiction, to help you achieve your goal to produce a manuscript with irresistible writing that editors in publishing houses will want for the three-season lists they must fill with high-concept, marketable books.| Toni Lopopolo, former executive editor at Macmillan, St Marin’s Press, Literary Agent since 1991, Editor, and Writing Instructor, uses a unique teaching method to help first-time novelists master the skills needed to successfully write book-length fiction. She aids nonfiction writers to produce compelling narrative nonfiction, using fiction techniques. The workshops Toni holds for writers of fiction and memoir, offered both in person and Online, fill up fast.
Toni has held workshops at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, at De Sales University, at the Writer’s Room of Bucks County, PA, for the Ventura County Writers Club, at the popular Tea With Toni seminars in Santa Barbara, Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, for the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society conferences, and many other venues. Her most popular lecture is: The Ten Most Common Mistakes First Novelist Make. |
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| Words of Wisdom from a Major Publisher Acquisition Editor:
“Everyone has some great stories and everyone’s life is interesting, but not everyone has the skill to turn a story into a book. The biggest factor when I consider memoir is voice; without that, the game’s over, no need to read beyond page 10. Everything else is secondary. In other words, a memoir needs to have both terrific writing and a compelling story, but if the voice is mesmerizing enough, the story will automatically be compelling; it doesn’t work the other way around.”
Here is what some of Toni’s students say:
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Workshop is limited in size. Attendees will be contacted to submit in advance of the workshop the first three pages of their story with a short description. Double spaced. There may be advanced “homework” so, sorry, no walk-ups. Sunday November 13, Early bird Registration for Full Day: $149 |
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