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Study Along with the Las Vegas Romance Craft Workshop.

Study Along Workshops will allow writers to follow part of the intense craft workshops being held in Las Vegas, only online.

For those of you who do not know, Kristine Kathryn Rusch teaches the craft workshops in Las Vegas (I get to help on one of them). To put it lightly, the workshops are intense. (grin)

And we screen who we let in to make sure the intense work and pressure will not hurt anyone, but instead help them learn and advance their writing.

In 2019 we have four craft workshops scheduled and two planned already in 2020. (All are at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, NV.)

What happens, in general, at these workshops is that there is a reading list about five months ahead that Kris sends everyone. Everyone must have it all read by the workshop. It is not a small list and Kris has reasons for each story and book on the list. Just the reading list in a learning experience.

Then two weeks ahead of the workshop or so you get a story assignment to a specific topic to write and bring with you to the workshop.

Then over the five days in Las Vegas you write two or three more short stories, do a bunch of exercises and craft things focused on helping you get better at the topic of the workshop. Kris talks about the books you read in depth, also about the assignments and the stories in the two sessions a day of meetings. And she has lectures about the topics to help the writers move forward.

As I said, these are intense and will jump your writing ahead. (If interested, write me.)

Study Along Workshops

Since the in-person Vegas workshops with Kris are very limited and also you must qualify and be in the right place, many writers either don't qualify yet or can't make the trip to Vegas for one reason or another.

So Kris and I have come up with a way to allow writers of any skill level to study along. It won't be the full workshop by a long ways, but it will still be pretty nifty.

First, you will get the same reading list that Kris sends out five months ahead. Same deadline to get it all read.

You will get the first story assignment. It must be turned it at exactly the same time Kris's writers in Vegas will turn their stories in.

Kris will do short videos about the reading books that will be released a little each day. (Writers in Vegas will also have access to all this as well for review later.)

I will do a series of recorded videos that will be opened up each day talking about learning the topic of the workshop, similar to regular online workshops.

You will get the short story assignments and deadlines at exactly the same as the Vegas writers. I will respond to your short stories. Kris will not read them, but I will. Then I will do a short webinar for each short story assignment where I talk about the stories and the reason for the assignment.

Only the Vegas writers will get all the other craft assignments and hear Kris's lectures and how that all builds. But the Study Along students will get her comments recorded about each book in the reading list and my lectures on the topics plus comments on the stories and a webinar about the stories.

Study Along Romance Craft Workshop

This workshop focus is on how to write romance in all the different sub-genres. It focuses on how to create romance characters readers will fall in love with.

This workshop works for writers of all levels who want to write wonderful romance stories.

Details About the Romance Craft Workshop

This workshop starts with the reading list in early April, 2019, you will write a short story in two weeks in early September, and bulk of the writing takes place September 20th-24th. All teaching videos will appear over those five days as well.

If you are signed up, I will send you a direct email when the reading list is put up here and also when the first short story assignment is posted. So no worries that you will miss something if you sign up now.

The videos will always be on your dashboard to return to at any time. The webinar will not be recorded.

This Study Along workshop will be limited because I can only read so many stories. So don't delay signing up. Lifetime subscribers can always get in.