Jonathan Maberry - Classes & Workshops

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Masterclass: WRITING AND SELLING SHORT STORIES with NY Times bestseller JONATHAN MABERRY

Saturday May 30, 10am - 1pm PST (1 - 4pm EST) via ZOOM

DESCRIPTION: The short story is exploding and it’s a market constantly hungry for new talent and new voices! Short fiction is a great way to build your writing career and increase your professional income, it can also help you stretch as a writer. Short stories offer more creative opportunities than any other form of writing.

We’ll discuss:

• The short story structure (and its many variations)

• Building compelling characters

• Knowing where to start (and how to end with a punch!)

• Strategies for great dialogue

• Developing a compelling opening hook

• Research for short fiction

• Finding Markets (including places you’d never think to look!)

• Writing for Magazines, Anthologies, Collections, and more

• How Short Story writing can help you write a better novel!

• Short Stories as your ticket to Hollywood!

• Strategies for finding paying markets

• And much more!!

TO ENROLL: $50. (To enroll make a PayPal payment to jonathan_maberry@yahoo.com NOTE: If you don't have a PayPal account, email me to make other arrangements (check, etc).

*** Proceeds benefit shelters & services for women and children.

Please include your full name and the best email address to use in order to send the Zoom link and class information. If purchasing for someone else, indicate that and give their name and email.

A set of notes will be made available to all participants.

JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the Horror Writers Association, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, anthology editor, writing teacher, and comic book writer. He’s the author of over 56 novels, 200-plus short stories, hundreds of comic books, and more.

Other Workshops:

THE PEOPLE IN OUR HEADS: CREATING COMPELLING CHARACTERS IN FICTION

Description: Great fiction is all about the people. The characters. Every good story isn’t about the big events, the threats, the monsters or bad guys or crisis. Good stories are about the characters. They drive the narrative, they engage the reader, and they are why we read! NY Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry –author of 40-plus novels, two dozen graphic novels, and over 130 short stories will share tips, insights, craft elements, and trade secrets about how to create and craft realistic ‘people’ for your writing. This lively discussion unlocks the process of taking a necessary group of characters and transforming them into individuals who drive the narrative, deepen the emotional impact, and make each story truly memorable.

We’ll cover:

• Using real people as templates for your characters

• Merging traits to create unique and interesting main and supportive characters

• Personalities for Protagonist and Antagonist

• Personality types as they relate to your story

• Character arcs

• Unique character voices

• Motivation that really drive your characters

• Physical details for unique characters

• “Interviewing” your characters to better understand them

• Empathy and Sympathy with your characters

• Character Development Games (solo and for writers groups)