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5 Keys Fast Track Writing Program

Greetings Everyone,

The “5 Keys Fast Track Writing Program” is available for getting your project done.

Have you been procrastinating?

Do you need a supportive environment to make progress?

You’ve come to the right place.

“5 Keys Fast Track Program” is independent study with me. Once a month we have Zoom calls to meet other Fast Trackers and members of my JKC Coaching group who have graduated from the “5 Keys to Create Captivating Writing” courses.

In Fast Track, you receive the same  handouts you would receive in the main courses, editing done by me, and access to me via email during the time you are in it. After you complete the handouts for the first course, you are eligible for the second Fast Track course, and then the third.

If you choose, after you graduate from the three Fast Track courses, you can join the coaching program.

Here are links to books by three authors who were in the “5 Keys to Create Captivating Writing.”

Patricia Bumpass, Jump into Positivity ~ 35 Quotes and Affirmations to Empower Women to Love Themselves  https://amzn.to/3LrJ4xi

Carole A. MacLean, Believe/Practice/Chose  ~ The Gift of Self Care: 21 Tips for Your Self Care Tool Belt
https://amzn.to/3a68ofa

Rex Bohachewski, What He Meant ~ 57 Phrases of Inspiration from My Dad

https://amzn.to/39rpbsy

 

Here is the link for “5 Keys to Create Captivating Writing” courses and “5 Keys to Fast Track” writing course.

http://bit.ly/WriteWithJKC

Join us now.

Julaina Kleist

 

 

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Update: Online Writing Courses and Care-giving

Greetings,

2021 has been filled with changes. We moved my 95 year-old dad to our house. Our daughter has an apartment of her own now, so we had room. Dad lived independently until his last fall in April when the doctors said he shouldn’t live alone anymore. He’s in good health and he’s no trouble, but needs my care-giving 24/7 since his mobility has decreased significantly.

With the added time to devote to him, I still had hours left over to grow my online courses that have led into a coaching program for writers.  Members of “5 Keys to Captivating Writing” went through fifteen weeks to learn the elements that improved their writing by leaps and bounds, to use a cliche. A few of the members are shown in the photo when new graduates then joined my JKC Coaching Program.

I had used Zoom for our class meetings. We bonded into a supportive little community. I plan to expand that community by making my courses evergreen by January. To be eligible for this coaching program, members had to complete 3 courses of 5 weeks each. I did editing of their submissions during the meetings, which they agreed enhanced their learning.

More news soon,

Julaina

If you are interested in my writing courses when the evergreen version begins, let me know. https://www.atimetowritenow.com/5-keys-to-create-your-captivating-writing/

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7 Writing Tips Are on Video Each Day

The 7-Day Blog Post Challenge with short videos (3-4 minutes) is on Day #6, but all the daily ideas are in the archives on the right side-bar of my website click here.

Tonight’s post will be a tip on philosophical disagreement, scene, and dialogue featuring Anne Ayers Koch and Thad Binkley.

See you there,

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

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Plot Arc Is Important For Personal Stories

 

 

When you are crafting a life experience that you will include in a talk you’re giving or if you are writing a short story about something that happened to you, do you use the plot arc?

Our aim is to build an upward slope from the beginning, peak it at the climax, and then calm it all out with the ending (resolution).

Usually we think of plots in a novel, but the elements in the diagram here, when used in telling life experiences makes the difference between an okay story and one with impact.

What I’ve noticed at several live events I’ve attended, is the speaker will let the story’s ending trail away and their voices tend to trail away too as if “Glad that’s over with.”

As the attendee, I’m left on the trail with no fork in the road, just a wall. I wonder what the experience meant, how could it inspire me, or how could I relate it to the topic of the presentation?  The weak or zero connection left me thinking the story wasn’t important and therefore the rest of the talk wasn’t either.

Tip for today: Choose a relatable life experience to include in your talk or your written work. Craft it with the elements of the Plot Arc and deliver it with belief that it is important.

It would be interesting to read your key points as they relate to Plot Diagram. Use comments to share or if you have questions.

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Captivate Audiences to Create Loyal Fans

Written Across the Genres

 

 

 

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Grace Paley, a “combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist”

 

 

In an interesting article written by Leora Skolkin-Smith, she states: “Grace Paley was a known pacifist and, also, a famous short story-writer. She enjoyed being referred to as a “combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist”.

“Grace Paley was not extreme in either her pacifism or her sense of government as reliably unreliable in the governing of the “Little Disturbances of Man” (the title of her most famous short story collection). She lived within the law, gracefully and with moral direction, though she protested and therefore refused to pay war taxes at times.”

To read more about Grace, click here.

Thanks to John Clarke for sharing this article on Facebook.

 

To the members of my writing class, don’t you love the description of a “combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist”?  Can anyone think of other contrasting adjectives to describe a character?

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of Hada’s Fog (soon to be released in early 2017)

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