Craft a Mini Blueprint For Your Book

Beginning & Intermediate
March 18, 2023
10:30 am -2:30 pm
Saturday, 1 Session
Instructor: Carol Crawford
Class Fee:   $85.00 non-members
                     $76.50 BRMAA members                   
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Gain clarity about your writing project in this interactive in-person class. For writers who are just starting a project, those who are mid-book and unsure of their direction, or those who have a complete manuscript and are beginning revisions. Ask yourself the crucial questions that will take you to the heart of your story.  Learn how to find your book’s point and nail your story’s focus. Keep readers reading by connecting your scenes in a cause-and-effect trajectory.  Come prepared to write in class and catch a vision of what your book will be. Projects include intensive interactive writing and reading aloud in class for peer and instructor feedback to help them clarify their focus for a fiction or nonfiction book or a short story or essay.  Students will explore the “why” of their book, explore different starting and ending points for their story, define characters’ desires, and other techniques for creating and maintaining narrative drive to maintain reader interest.
Call (706) 632-2144 for questions regarding this course and registration.  Payment is required to register for BRMAA courses. You may pay via PayPal above, over the phone, or visit The Art Center located at 420 West Main Street, Blue Ridge, GA 30513 to pay in person. 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
CAROL CRAWFORD

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Carol Crawford is the owner of Carol Crawford Editing and author of The Habit of Mercy: Poems about Daughters and Mothers. 
Carol has taught creative writing for more than twenty years.  For the past seven years she has  worked as a free-lance editor serving more than sixty authors of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature.  She has led workshops for the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Dahlonega Literary Festival, the Red Clay Writers’ Conference, the Writers’ Circle, the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and the Carrollton, Georgia, Writers’ Club.  She has been volunteer program coordinator for the Blue Ridge Writers’ Conference since it began more than twenty years ago.  Her memberships include the Editorial Freelancers Association, the North Carolina Writers Network, Georgia Writers, and the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association.
She has published essays, poetry, and fiction in in the Southern Humanities Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Concho River Review, and the Journal of Kentucky Studies, among others.  She loves to help people tell their stories.