A Uniquely Formatted Online Course to Create a Compelling Opening
What to Expect:
- Starting 9/14, participants have 12 days to watch instructional videos and do exercises via a private webpage. Participants spruce up or create a dynamic opening for a book, memoir, or short story of up to 300 words.
- By 9/25, opening pages are submitted to C@CAlexSmith.com who will anonymously distribute them to participants via a link.
- By 10/4, participants review other writers’ openings and answer three questions:
- Does it make you want to turn the page and keep reading?
- What hooked you?
- What would have been an even stronger hook?
- Instructor emails summary of participant feedback to each writer prior to 10/9.
- On 10/9, group meets on Zoom from 1-3 p.m. to review and discuss feedback received.
FREE!
Registration Due by 9/14
Limited to 15 participants
Questions:
C@CAlexSmith.com
(928)779-6368
C. Alex Smith started her writing career as a political blogger on the Daily Kos in 2008. She was invited to be one of three editors on a well-researched weekly blog concerning economics, politics, environmental concerns, medicine, and science. There, she cultivated far left celebrities to guest post on the blog including Robin Upton (host of Unwelcome Guests), Gar Alperovitz (author of Beyond Capitalism), Roger Rothenberger (author of Beyond Plutocracy), and Prof. Richard D. Wolff (Economic Update, The New School in NY). She was also instrumental in getting the blog reposted on several political news sites and maintained the blogs social media presence.
She moved on in 2014 to being the host of Spec Fix Pix, a podcast for fans of Sci Fi, Fantasy and Horror.
After moving back to Arizona in 2018, she became a co-founder of Flagstaff Writers Connection. She continues to work for FWC to maintain their internet presence, host the local Critique Circle and Publishing Club, and to provide occasional workshops and courses on writing and the publishing industry.
Since 2008 she has been writing science fiction and alternate history. She has five complete manuscripts and three partial manuscripts. Two of her manuscripts took second place at the Arizona Authors Association Literary Contest.
