Looking for a local writer’s group in Oakland, CA? Check out these upcoming workshops by local writing teacher and novelist, Shelley Wagner. UPDATED LOCATION: Owl Bookshop, 3941 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, California Mondays 1:00 to...
For the second year in a row, I’ll teach “Story Structure: An Essential Building Blocks of Your Craft Title” as an online email course. Here’s the details! Hope to see you there!
I’ll be teaching a Master Class just after the San Francisco Writer’s Conference in February 2018. The Master Classes are sponsored by the nonprofit San Francisco Writers Foundation, not the conference per se. So...
I’m excited to share with you an upcoming craft course for fiction writers by a writing teacher I deeply admire, Alicia Rasley. If you’re struggling on how to start your stories, or struggling with...
If you want to stretch and write your first novel, or finish a manuscript that’s been sitting around, NaNoWriMo is a great excuse and laboratory to take action. And it starts today! If you’re...
Write your novel with confidence! Once upon a time there was a writer who wanted to write a novel, but didn’t know where to begin. Everyday, she sat down to write but didn’t know...
I care that you write your novel, but I realized lately that I care more about your quality of life. All our courses are built with your full life in mind, including our upcoming Plan...
We may be wired for story, but we often don’t understand its structure or how a story is put together. The good news is story lives in us unconsciously. The other good news is...
When I first wanted to learn Scrivener, I blocked off about 4 hours to pour over the tutorial, and figure out how I wanted to use the powerful writing tool. I did finally figure...
by Beth Barany · Published March 8, 2018 · Last modified January 6, 2021
While teaching our Edit Your Novel Intensive, I received a great question from a student. She wanted an example of how to fix a flashback. So I put out the call to my current...
book marketing / Courses + Workshops
by Beth Barany · Published October 16, 2017 · Last modified October 20, 2017
If you want a career as a novelist or you just want a few strangers to buy your books, it’s probably a very good idea that you learn how to market your books and...
Are you ready to take the leap into actually writing your novel?
July 14th is the 11th anniversary of my business helping writers. I chose July 14th to file for a city business license on purpose, as I’m a Francophile and have lived in France twice....
Courses + Workshops / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published December 15, 2016 · Last modified December 22, 2016
What is good writing? One of my clients recently asked me for help on writing a good sentence. (I’ll be drafting that article at some point.) But the question got me thinking about this...
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