I have won many awards for my fiction,
been on bestseller charts all over the world and my
writing tuition is considered second to none (just ask my
students!)
Classes include my unique lecture material
sent out via email each week. And, as an EWTW student,
you will have complete access to me, Kenyon, for
questions, suggestions, help, critiquing, whatever you
need.
There will also be special handouts and
various class materials made available to you on
different subjects should you need or want them.
I guarantee that you will find my courses
far more in-depth and me far more accessible than any
other class or instructor you could find on the Net.
THE CLASSES
Women's Fiction
4 weeks
No, this is not about romance writing. It
is an in depth study of what it means to be a woman
writer in today's world.
This unique course offers insight and
instruction on your responsibilities as a writer for
women, and the craft of writing from a woman's point of
view.
The course covers many women writer's work
plus tips on voice and style, characterization, plotting,
dos and don'ts, assignments and the female writer's life.
This course is specifically designed to
empower and inspire women writers.
The Writer’s Journal - In The
Steps of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf and Other
Greats of Literature
6 weeks
A very special course in which you’ll
learn how to distinquish the recurring themes of your
life, the mythos that you live out in your life everyday
and you’ll learn how to turn it into compelling
fiction.
This course will cover the Writer’s
Journal, one of the nuts and bolts of the writer’s
toolbox. There are many kinds of journaling techniques
and you’ll be introduced to all of them so you can
find what works for you from daily entries journals and
reflective journals to Reading Journals (also called Book
Logs) to the Metacognitive Journal. Writer’s
Journals have been used by all the great writers as idea
catchers, practice grounds for their writing and as aids
to break Writer’s Block.
Information will also be provided about
journaling software and URLs given where either freeware
or demos of the various journal ware can be found for
download. An important class for anyone wishing to spend
their lives as writers, whether of fiction or nonfiction.
Ah,Mysteries - The Butler
in the Kitchen with a Candlestick
8 weeks
They say romance is the best selling of
all the genres, but the average reader can name more
mystery writers than they can romance writers.
Mysteries are a perennial favorite,
satisfying the mind’s desire to solve puzzles. In
the class you’ll learn about mysteries from the
"Cozy" to the "Noir" , all the
subgenres, and how to fashion the character and plot
twists that make these books so satisfying to both
mysteries buffs and the average reader.
All the writing basics will be covered
along with the special emphasis on each that adapts it to
the writing of mysteries specificially.
Constructing villians, plotting those
stealthy twists and turns and other genre specific
material like red herrings and false plants will alsobe
covered.
There will be a reading list and an
assignment beginning the first week to write your own
short mystery story. Mystery sites and URLs of markets
for your novel or short stories will be given so that
when the class has finished and your mystery story is
written, you’ll know where to send it and have a
good chance of making that first sale.
Writing
horror can be the most painful of all genres - to scare
the living daylights out of someone else, we have to
scare ourselves.
To reach to
the deepest primal fears of others, we have to reach to
the deepest part of the wounds we bear where our fears
are still as alive as they were when we were children and
certain there was a moldering corpse under the bed whose
undead hands would grasp our ankles and pull us under the
bed and down into hell with it if we had to get up in the
night for a glass of water or a trip to the bathroom.
The sales
of those good horror novels that hit the bookstores show
that there is and always will be a place for the good,
strong horror novel.
This class
is designed to introduce the student to the writing of
horror novels and short stories utilizing all the Tools
of Writing and hideously twisting them to make your
characters, your plots, your monsters, and eventualy,
your sales.
Included is
a special listing of horror short fiction markets and
publishers who specialize in horror, URLs for horror
sites that post your work for sale or for showcase.
This class
has been so successful in the past that a book of short
stories by its students has been published.
If you love
horror, then you’ll love writing horror. A serious
class for those serious about breaking into this genre,
that doesn’t forget, too, that writing horror should
be shivery, frightening fun.
