Seven Elements of Story
1-30 April, 2008 
$30

Registration ends 31 March 2008

INSTRUCTOR: Sylvie Kurtz

CLASS DESCRIPTION: This course is 4 weeks long with 2 lectures  per week.  You will learn to use the seven elements of story concept to put together a blurb that is complete, conflict-filled and concise enough to use as a selling tool.

LAYERING A STORY CONCEPT

Lecture 1 – Introduction and basic outline of a story concept

Lecture 2 – Hero:
Backstory--
- point of origin
- original circumstance
- original challenge
- original defining decision
- original self-definition
- primary emotional state
- motto
- secret

Lecture 3 – Flaw, Redeeming Quality and Character Arc

Lecture 4 – Defense Mechanism and Enabling Circumstance

Lecture 5 – Goal and Opponent

Lecture 6 – Ally and Ally's MO

Lecture 7 -- Life Changing Event and Jeopardy

Lecture 8 – Objective and Subjective Line and Wrap-up

INSTRUCTOR BIO:  Flying an eight hour solo cross-country in a Piper Arrow with only the airplane's crackling radio and a large bag of M & Ms for company, Sylvie Kurtz realized a pilot's life wasn't for her. The stories zooming in and out of her head proved more entertaining than the flight itself. Not a quitter, she finished her pilot's course, earning her commercial license and instrument rating. Since then, she's traded in her pilot's license for a keyboard, where she lets her imagination soar to create fictional adventures that explore the power of love and the thrill of suspense. Her first Harlequin Intrigue, One Texas Night, was a 1999 Romantic Times nominee for Best First Category Romance and a finalist for a Booksellers Best Award.  Her Silhouette Special Edition, A Little Christmas Magic was a 2001 Reader's Choice Award Finalist

and a Waldenbooks bestseller. Remembering Red Thunder was a 2002 Romantic Times Nominee for Best Intrigue. She is a 2005 Romantic Times nominee for Lifetime Achievement for Series Romantic Adventure. She has written twenty books, including Intrigues for Harlequin and Bombshells for Silhouette.

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