To help writers beat the summer doldrums, I’m going to be hosting a Summer of Fiction Writing event on HollysWritingClasses.com (HWC).
During this three-month writing party, (June 1st – August 31st) folks in the free HCW writers’ community:
- Will focus on helping newer writers create smaller start-to-finish projects written in the months of June, July, and August, while helping more experienced writers create and complete larger projects
- Will have “involve your kids” support — I’ll put together a free downloadable Superhero Summer activity PDF that lets younger writers — male and female — invent cool characters, build the worlds they inhabit, make fitting dangers for their superhero to fight, and learn some fiction skills at a very basic level while doing this, so parents who want to write and have children out of school for the summer can let the kids do something cool, too. (No kids on the forum, however. We are an adult community that occasionally deals with subjects that are NOT kid-friendly.)
- Will support finishing existing hard-drive zombies (possibly with a new How to Revive Your Hard Drive Zombies workshop toward the end IF I can make the time AND if that doesn’t become the How to Write a Novel class bonus — voting isn’t going in that direction at the moment, but it’s way too soon to call it)
- Will have dedicated event threads in the main discussion board
- Will focus on helping writers set achievable goals and then achieve them in three months
- Will be a free event with a limited-time participant signature pip and a blog badge for everyone who participates, AND upgraded “Hit My Goal” pip and blog badge for folks who hit their goals
This will be Holly’s Writing Classes’ first home-grown event.
This 3-month writing event will let participants use any of my paid or free classes or workshops, as well as any of the free PDF workshops I have here on my personal site.
- How to Write Something Good from a Prompt
- How to Set Achievable Goals
- How to Hone Your Talent
- How to Design a Character
- Dialogue Workshop
- Mapping /Worldbuilding Workshop
- Scene Creation Workshop
- Description Workshop
- Timed Writing Workshop
- Visualization Workshop
- Serendipity Workshop
- Novel Pre-Writing Workshop
- How to Start a Novel
- How to Finish a Novel
- One-Pass Novel-Revision Workshop
All of the workshops above are available as nicely formatted, downloadable, printable PDFs — just scroll to the bottom of the page you want and select the Download as PDF option.
- It will ALSO include support for the free 3-week How to Write Flash Fiction that Doesn’t SUCK class on the HWC site (which you get when you create your free member account, and which comes with downloadable lessons, worksheets, AND a dedicated forum for Flash Fiction students.
Our objective in the writing community will be — first — to set our own goals and then hit them, and — second — to help you set goals that you can reach within the time limit, and then encourage you to post them, to hit them, and to join us in supporting other folks while hitting our OWN summer goals.
Want to get in early and help us brainstorm the upcoming three months, and get a head start on figuring out what you want to start AND finish in that time?
Go to HollysWritingClasses.com and sign in or create your free account right from the front page.
Then come in and hang out with us here: The SOFW Event Thread.
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