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Finish That Manuscript–Live Q & A call tomorrow!
January 5-February 1, 2015
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION #1: FINISH THAT MANUSCRIPT!
An Online Workshop on Re-visioning, Taking the Next Step, and Falling (Back) in Love with Your Vision.
A 4-week workshop beginning January 5
LIVE 30-min preview call Sunday, January 4 at 7 pm mst
***email me at nancystohlman@gmail.com to register for the preview call
Are you or someone you know working on a manuscript? Are you stuck in the writing phase or in the revision process? Or have you “finished” but not gotten the response you wanted out in the world? Are you not sure what comes next? Most of us are better at starting manuscripts than we are at finishing them. But it’s only when we can conceive, create, and bring our projects to fruition that we begin to master the longer form known as a book. Each book we write brings us closer to understanding how to write a book. What phase of the finishing process are you in? And what do you need to cross the finish line and get it out into the world?
In this workshop we will explore:
• What’s keeping you from finishing?
• Are your challenges telling you something about your manuscript?
• How to fall back in love with your work and your vision
• Allowing your manuscript to transform
• Publication—is your manuscript ready to send into the world?
• The different stages of “finishing” a manuscript
• Self-promotion—are you afraid of rejection? (You’re not alone.)
In this workshop I’ll give you the deadlines you might need, help you structure your writing time into your life, help you transition more easily between creation and revision, and help you become your own best editor. Whether you are planning to submit or self publish, you’ll gain writing, editorial and publication advice, how to find and cultivate a readership, how to excerpt and query, and even when to let a manuscript transform. And most importantly, you’ll finally birth your work and give yourself the satisfaction of completion.
Are you ready?
Tuition: $199 (discounts and payment plans available)
FREE 30-min preview call Sunday, January 4 at 7 pm mst
email me at nancystohlman@gmail.com to register for the preview call
*All classes use a combination of written lectures and assignments, email correspondence, and weekly phone calls.
“Nancy has a way with words, certainly, but she also has a way with people that allows her classes to take on a spirit that exceeds instruction or even guidance. Her consistent support and empathy is tempered with gentle nudges to step out of our comfort zones and approach our work, not with abandon, but with careful attention and encouragement.”
~Mara Eve Robbins
All other questions: nancystohlman@gmail.com or fill out the form below
Top 10 Books By Friends 2014
It’s time!
TOP 10 BOOKS BY FRIENDS 2014
(These books may or may not have been published prior to 2014–only read by me in 2014.)
In no particular order:
1. Cry Father by Benjamin Whitmer
I love that this book is set in Denver. It’s a gritty, glorious, romanticized bloodfest, a modern day crime and outlaw story alternating between the dive bars and meth houses of the city to the highways that escape out of town but never from the past.
2. Bound by Blue by Meg Tuite
From my Amazon review: These thirteen stories are funny but not funny… Tuite takes us into living rooms that are as disturbing as they are familiar, and repaints them with an artist’s sensitivity and an oddly appropriate sense of wonder. Her characters are raw, flawed, broken, charming, tragic, adorable, hateful, hopeful, and authentically human.
3. Pizzas and Mermaid by Jonathan Montgomery
From my Amazon review: From the epic battle with National Pizza Chain and the “Estimated Delivery Time” saga to stand-alones such as “Placenta” , “Things Left in the Back of My Cab”, late night lottery ticket encounters and strippers with unicorn horns, Jonathan Montgomery combines sharp insight and deadpan humor with magical adventures for grown ups!
4. Maybe This is How Tides Work by Brian Dickson
Brian Dickson has a soft, vulnerable lens that he uses to filter his world, and his newest book of poetry is a bittersweet and beautiful view of people, the heart, and all things New Mexico.
5. She Bears a King by Lynn Brewer
From my Amazon review: “I just finished reading Lynn Brewer’s first novel, “She Bears A King”–a hilarious pop culture romp into the life of a modern woman who is impregnated by Jesus. Loved it!”
6. Patriarch Run by Benjamin Dancer
From my Amazon review: I’ve always been a fan of Benjamin Dancer’s prose—but his new book, called a “literary thriller” combines both the prose and depth of character that I’ve come to expect from Dancer with honest to god high-energy page-turning tension of a classic thriller!
7. Italy: Beer Country by Bryan Jansing and Paul Vismata
Bryan Jansing and Paul Vismata researched this book for years, from their decade + experience working with craft beers to their multiple trips to Italy. If you thought Italy was just about vineyards–you are wrong. Perfect for beer connoisseurs and Italy fans alike.
8. Wild Life by Kathy Fish
Sophisticated, smart, and powerfully understated, they don’t call her the Queen of flash fiction for nothing! I’m looking forward to reading her newest collection, Together We Can Bury It in 2015!
9. They Only Eat Their Husbands by Cara Lopez Lee
Re-released by Conundrum Press this year, the author of the blog Girls Trek Too takes us on her adventures of the world and the heart in equal measures. Both armchair traveling and introspection with Cara’s signature clever observations and humor.
10. Diddle by Daniel Staniforth
With a poet’s sensibility, Daniel Staniforth weaves lush sentences as intricate as lace doilies, telling the immigrant story with an oddly unexpected and delightful fairy tale flair.
And just one more for the road…
11. Either Way I’m Celebrating by Sommer Browning
This is my kind of poetry! Irreverent, hilarious and highly intelligent, Sommer breaks poetry taboos, draws naughty comics and leaves you alternating between humorous shock and poignant recognition.
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