Where best-selling authors teach writing.

This class is for anyone who is a fan of either Marissa Meyer, Kendare Blake or Jennifer Lynn Barnes. If you've ever had questions about their favorite books, why they wrote their books, what is hard and what is rewarding for them as authors, this class is for you.

In this class you will learn all about the publishing world. Shelley Brown teaches you what you should focus on now as well as what you should do in the future if you want to be published. It includes writing a query letter, self-publishing and different places you can publish as well as how to know when you are ready to publish.

This class focuses on the mechanics of character desire to help you flesh out your characters and build a plot around the characters true motivations and needs. Heather Clark details different types of obstacles to create for your characters as well as how to raise the stakes with those obstacles for both your main character and secondary characters.

This class focuses on creating amazing antagonists and/or villains. Jennifer Nielsen teaches you the differences between heroes and villains, common major and minor motives of villains, finding the core emotion for your villain, and the questions you need to ask yourself in order to create a well-rounded villain.

Enjoy this keynote talk by Kendare Blake in which she walks you through her workspace, a day in her life when she's figuring out story ideas, and most importantly, how to deal with distraction.

This class teaches you how to use your characters to help plot your story. Erin Stewart leads you through an entire character driven plot structure as well as showing you which parts of the story are crucial to character arc plotting.

This class is deep dive into revision. An editor herself, Kaela Rivera covers a hierarchy of revision, methods for revision, how to know when your book is ready for submission, and how to take critique. Whether you are a newbie to revision or have been doing it for years, this class is for you.

Join Alexander Delacroix as he teaches you all things fictional tension related. You will learn overarching ways to create tension in the general storyline, how to create it within your main character, and how to write a great cliffhanger at the ends of chapters or series.

In this class Emma Nelson uses the basics of video games to teach important concepts of story writing. She relates this to creating great characters, building amazing worlds, and leaving the right questions in the reader’s mind. Grades: 6-12

A more advanced class, Jo Schaffer-Layton leads you through narrowing down your writing to the best words. The focus is on technical writing, but applies to all aspects of writing. Includes how to find the extraneous words, common wordiness mistakes, and how to cut unnecessary words.

In this class Tiffany Rosenhan gives advice for keeping readers engaged in your story. She covers why it is harder to engage now than it was in the past, common mistakes writers make in the opening pages, and what to do in those opening pages to ensure your readers keep reading.

Suspense and tension and driving forces for reading. In this class Nova McBee teaches you twelve different ways to create mystery in your story.