Writing for a Living- Queries Summaries

Writing for a Living: Queries & Summaries, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 13 lectures, based on 27 reviews, and has 779 subscribers.

You will learn about Write an effective query to sell your writing. Summarize and structure your writing in a clear, engaging manner. Understand what editors and agents look for. Understand the criteria the publishing industry looks for when selecting material. This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginning to intermediate authors who want to sell their work to editors, or attract an agent. or Anyone interested in honing their writing skills. or If you're already making a successful living from your writing, this course is probably not for you. It is particularly useful for Beginning to intermediate authors who want to sell their work to editors, or attract an agent. or Anyone interested in honing their writing skills. or If you're already making a successful living from your writing, this course is probably not for you.

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Summary

Title: Writing for a Living: Queries & Summaries

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 13

Number of Published Lectures: 13

Number of Curriculum Items: 13

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 13

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Write an effective query to sell your writing.

Summarize and structure your writing in a clear, engaging manner.

Understand what editors and agents look for.

Understand the criteria the publishing industry looks for when selecting material.

Who Should Attend

Beginning to intermediate authors who want to sell their work to editors, or attract an agent.

Anyone interested in honing their writing skills.

If you're already making a successful living from your writing, this course is probably not for you.

Target Audiences

Beginning to intermediate authors who want to sell their work to editors, or attract an agent.

Anyone interested in honing their writing skills.

If you're already making a successful living from your writing, this course is probably not for you.

This course is a nuts-and-bolts examination of the strategies and skills needed to present your books, articles, ideas, and/or yourself in a compelling and competitive manner to potential buyers. It centers on a standard part of any professional writing career, the Query.

Basically, the Query is a short letter (1-2 pages) addressed to an editor, producer, or agent that tries to get them interested enough in an author’s work to read the entire project.

The course consists of twelve video lectures detailing how to create Queries, taught by author Stefan Petrucha based on his two decades of experience in novels and graphic novels. Ranging from two to 12 minutes, they run just under two hours and are presented in three sections:

Story Basics

Query Basics

Creating Summaries.

Story Basics hones in on the most challenging component, Content, where the professional author must pitch the core of their work in a brief, yet captivating manner. By focusing on Story as the basic unit of human communication, students will be able to quickly understand what does and doesn’t work.

Query Basics describes how the Query developed, then defines and explores its five essential components: Content, Market, Bio, Availability and Project Status. A focus on marketing teaches students what buyers want, and how to give it to them.

Creating Summaries explores how summaries evolved in different media (film, tv, publishing) and how that context effects the working writer. It then presents specific strategies for condensing story ideas, a process that can also become an effective way to reliably generate content. A final lecture concentrates on the biggest obstacle not only to creating summaries, but to good writing in general: Redundancy.

A free PDF of the book, Writing for a Living is also included.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Story Basics

Lecture 1: Story Basics: The Four Parts of a Story

Lecture 2: Story Basics: Character

Lecture 3: Story Basics: Conflict

Lecture 4: Story Basics: Complications

Lecture 5: Story Basics: Closure and Expectations

Chapter 2: Creating Summaries

Lecture 1: Summaries: The Three Tiered Approach

Lecture 2: 11 Summaries II: The Query Hybrid and Writing Methods

Chapter 3: Query Basics

Lecture 1: Query Basics: The Five Parts of a Query

Lecture 2: Query Basics: Content

Lecture 3: Query Basics: Marketing

Lecture 4: 3 Query Basics: Bio

Lecture 5: 4 Query Basics: Sample Query

Lecture 6: 12 Redundancy Redundancy Redundancy

Instructors

Stefan Petrucha
Author of over 20 books and hundreds of graphic novels!

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