Online Class with Mike Foley
No matter how perfect your story’s plot, there are still two elements that will make or break your fiction—characters and dialogue. Beginning Monday, February 16, Mike Foley will offer a brand new online class, Dynamic Characters and Dialogue. The six-week course will focus on improving characters and the way they speak, making your fiction more compelling and marketable. Lessons include:
*** Lingering Fear: When Pain Affects the Present Moment
*** Story Momentum: Keeping Emotion in Dialogue
*** Using the Body: How Movement Helps Readers Decide
*** Hints at the Visual: How to Describe in Dialogue
*** A Character’s First Moment: Revealing Love
*** The Spoken Noose: Making Dialogue Edgy
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:
1. A lesson will be emailed every Monday and will include an assigned exercise.
2. Students will read or download the lesson at their convenience.
3. Students will complete the weekly writing exercise and return it to Mike Foley via email (all exercises due the following Monday). Students will receive a weekly letter from Mike, discussing the exercise and offering suggestions on their work.
4. Students will have the opportunity to read the weekly exercises to see how their classmates handled the assignments.
5. Every week, Mike will email additional writing tips to supplement the course material.
6. As part of the course, students will receive a free critique of a writing project. This can be the story created in class or another story/novel chapter. Project length will be 6-12 double-spaced pages. All projects will be evaluated and returned.
The class will begin (first lesson sent) on Monday, February 16. FEE FOR THE SIX-WEEK COURSE--$199. You may pay by check or credit card (Visa/MC accepted through PayPal). For more information or to register, please contact Mike Foley by email: mike@writers-review.com
No matter how perfect your story’s plot, there are still two elements that will make or break your fiction—characters and dialogue. Beginning Monday, February 16, Mike Foley will offer a brand new online class, Dynamic Characters and Dialogue. The six-week course will focus on improving characters and the way they speak, making your fiction more compelling and marketable. Lessons include:
*** Lingering Fear: When Pain Affects the Present Moment
*** Story Momentum: Keeping Emotion in Dialogue
*** Using the Body: How Movement Helps Readers Decide
*** Hints at the Visual: How to Describe in Dialogue
*** A Character’s First Moment: Revealing Love
*** The Spoken Noose: Making Dialogue Edgy
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:
1. A lesson will be emailed every Monday and will include an assigned exercise.
2. Students will read or download the lesson at their convenience.
3. Students will complete the weekly writing exercise and return it to Mike Foley via email (all exercises due the following Monday). Students will receive a weekly letter from Mike, discussing the exercise and offering suggestions on their work.
4. Students will have the opportunity to read the weekly exercises to see how their classmates handled the assignments.
5. Every week, Mike will email additional writing tips to supplement the course material.
6. As part of the course, students will receive a free critique of a writing project. This can be the story created in class or another story/novel chapter. Project length will be 6-12 double-spaced pages. All projects will be evaluated and returned.
The class will begin (first lesson sent) on Monday, February 16. FEE FOR THE SIX-WEEK COURSE--$199. You may pay by check or credit card (Visa/MC accepted through PayPal). For more information or to register, please contact Mike Foley by email: mike@writers-review.com
Mike Foley is the editor of Dream Merchant Magazine and also teaches fiction and nonfiction writing in the extension program at University of California-Riverside.__________________________
I have taken online classes with Mike Foley and found them to be phenomenal. His lesson are always well thought out and the feedback is always helpful. If you decide to spend a bit of time with this exceptional writing teacher and mentor do let him know Laura Jayne sent you.
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