WRITE YOUR BOOK: PART 1—START YOUR BOOK TODAY
The online course from the creator of the On Storytelling writing tips video series
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If you’ve always wanted to write a book, but don’t know where to begin, the exercises in this course are for you. Start writing now with these tools, that when used in a focused way, come together to create the book you’ve dreamed of.
Your Instructor
About Michelle Zaffino
Michelle Zaffino is an author,
information scientist and digital librarian in San Francisco, with over
10 years of experience, including content and information architecture,
product, magazine, book and online publishing, UX strategy,
fact-checking, copywriting and editing. She worked in New York for
several Hearst publications, and while managing the research department
at
Marie Claire, she wrote Does Your Man Need A Makeover?, which inspired tv’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
She’s been published in Marie Claire, Redbook, Sports Afield, SEEN, Double Negative, Sportswear International, IndiePlanet, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, The Bold Italic, Her Fab Life, the Sephora blog, Eco Fashion World, Eco to the People and In the Stacks video book review. Michelle offers tips to aspiring writers in the On Storytelling video series. She recently completed her first teen novel, How Good It Can Be, a sequel, The Love Quad, ALLEGRA, a historical novel for teens, and is currently working on a series for young adults and a memoir. She’s serializing a mystery set in San Francisco at the Librarian Detective website. Look for her upcoming novel, Be There, about a female entrepreneur learning to surf while working remotely.
Course Curriculum
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StartSection A: Setting Up for Writing Success
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StartGetting Started
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StartSection A Video: Write Something (1:12)
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StartLesson 1: The First Sentence (0:34)
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StartWorksheet for Lesson 1
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StartLesson 2: The Last Sentence (0:41)
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StartWorksheet for Lesson 2
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StartMeditation Video - brief version
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StartMeditation Video - extended version (2:31)
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StartSection B: Why Outline
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StartCreating an Outline
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StartSample Outline
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StartLesson 3: Create Your Outline
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StartWorksheet for Lesson 3