COURSE SYLLABUS:
WEEK ONE: Getting Started with Great Ideas, the Shitty First Draft, and Your Beginning Hook
Gathering Great Ideas and Your Beginning Hook
WEEK TWO: Picture Book Types, Physical Structures, 2nd Visual Stories, the 2 Arcs
Working with an Illustrator
WEEK THREE: Interactivity and Humor
Dashka Slater • Just Say No
WEEK FOUR: Character and Plot
Truths, Themes and Layers • Plot and Structure • Creating Memorable Characters • Problems
WEEK FIVE: Nonfiction • Biography • Amplifying
Writing Non-Fiction Versus Information Fiction, Vivian Kirkfield, Deborah Hopkinson, Lori Mortensen, Elisa Boxer, Caroline Arnold, STEM, + Biographies
WEEK SIX: Developmental Stages
More About Plotting Your Story • Interview with Bonni Goldberg
WEEK SEVEN: Rhyme • Luscious Language • Active Versus Passive Language
Shannon Stocker Interview and Book Review
WEEK EIGHT: Postmodernism, the Public Domain • Manuscript Formatting
Postmodernism and the Public Domain • Allison Wortche • Marsha Diane Arnold • Formatting Your Manuscript
WEEK NINE: Editing for Brevity • Jim Averbeck
Picture Book Word Counts and Editing for Brevity • Jim Averbeck
WEEK TEN: Pitches Bios Cover Letters
The 5 Ps of Publication • Pitches, Bios, and Cover Letters • Contracts • Bonus Workbook
WEEK ELEVEN: Lists of Agents and Publishers, All about Agents, Editors, Book Sellers and Interviews
Lists of Agents and Publishers, All About Agents, Book Sellers, Editors, Social Media, Interviews and More
WEEK TWELVE: The Art of Revisions, Promoting Your Book with Social Media, Greg Pincus, Kathryn Otoshi, and Bonni Goldberg with marketing for non-marketers.
Promoting Your Book with Social Media, Greg Pincus, Kathryn Otoshi, Bonni Goldberg
BONUS WEEK THIRTEEN: The Art of Revision and Other Teacher's Teaching
Week 13: Revision • Other Teacher’s Approaches - Barbara Bottner
Week 13: Five reminder videos from the great Frances Gilbert and Charlotte Wenger and me
Week 13 Interviews with: Orel Protopopescu and agent Kaitlyn Sanchez
Week 13: Diversity, Race, Gender, Class and Environment
Week 13: Biographies with Barbara Kerley
Week 13: Elemental Revision Strategies and Exercises
Week 13: Big Bang Finale - It Takes a Village interview re Finley: A Moose on the Caboose
