Raising the Stakes

Raising the Stakes

Whatever the stakes we’re trying to create, if the reader isn’t feeling it, we’re not doing our job as novelists. We’re going to examine big stakes and big tension by considering those scenes that make the spine tingle! It can be a real challenge to convey big feelings across the page and really communicate them viscerally to a reader. Especially when we’re going for fearful, intense, creepy, or dark scenes when we all know it’s going to work out just fine for our hero–she is the HERO, after all! A master storyteller will have readers feeling it just the same. Register for this creative writing workshop to take your protagonist’s stakes to new levels.

Writers Circle – FREE

Writers Circle – FREE

The Writers Circle is a free opportunity to meet Alida over Zoom and ask your writing question. Registration is required – click image or title to sign up – drop in, say hello, and receive guidance, even an answer – Alida offers an office hour called the Writers Circle.

If you have a writing question, are curious about Alida, or want to see what’s happening and benefit from others’ questions, stop in, say hello, ask away.

If you have a writing question, are curious about Alida, or want to see what’s happening and benefit from others’ questions, stop in, say hello, ask away.

Writers Circle – FREE

Writers Circle – FREE

The Writers Circle is an open door opportunity to meet Alida over Zoom and ask your writing question. Based on the idea of a professors’ office hours – a time when anyone working with them or curious about meeting them or discussing something in their field of expertise could drop in, say hello, and receive guidance, even an answer – Alida offers an office hour called the Writers Circle.

If you have a writing question, are curious about Alida, or want to see what’s happening and benefit from others’ questions, stop in, say hello, ask away.

Writers Circle – FREE

Writers Circle – FREE

The Writers Circle is a free opportunity to meet Alida over Zoom and ask your writing question. Registration is required – click image or title to sign up – drop in, say hello, and receive guidance, even an answer – Alida offers an office hour called the Writers Circle.

If you have a writing question, are curious about Alida, or want to see what’s happening and benefit from others’ questions, stop in, say hello, ask away.

Writers Circle – FREE

Writers Circle – FREE

The Writers Circle is an open door opportunity to meet Alida over Zoom and ask your writing question. Based on the idea of a professors’ office hours – a time when anyone working with them or curious about meeting them or discussing something in their field of expertise could drop in, say hello, and receive guidance, even an answer – Alida offers an office hour called the Writers Circle.

If you have a writing question, are curious about Alida, or want to see what’s happening and benefit from others’ questions, stop in, say hello, ask away.

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