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Exploring the Essential Features of “How to Nail Your First Three Pages – Lisa Cron”
- 9 Video lessons in HD
- 1h 7m of class content
LESSONS
1. Class Introduction
2. That Critical Inner Voice’s Three Big Mistakes
3. Assumptions We Must SMASH
4. A Glimpse Of The Big Picture
5. Something Must Be Happening
6. Who Is The Protagonist?
7. Why Does What’s Happening Matter?
8. What’s At Stake?
9. What Is The Ongoing Consequence?
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Discover The Secrets Of Hooking Your Reader From The Get Go
Writers know that the first three pages are the most crucial when it comes to hooking the reader. You have to stoke the reader’s curiosity, making them not just want to know what happens next, but have to. It’s biology! Not only that, but the seeds of everything that will happen in your story are planted in the first few pages. No pressure, right? And to make the task even more daunting, ironically, most of what writers are taught to do in those three pages end up locking the reader out, rather than luring them in.
We’ll debunk myths that may have been leading you astray, zero in on exactly what readers are wired to expect in those first few pages, and how to get it onto the page. And the best news yet: the last thing you want to do when first writing those opening pages is make them “beautiful.” The biggest fear that keeps writers from getting past the first sentence is believing that it has to be “perfect” right out of the starting gate. Not only doesn’t it need to be, it can’t be. Big sigh of relief!
In this session you’ll learn how to:
- Duct tape the critical inner voice to a chair so you can really write.
- Create the five essential things your reader is wired to expect on the first three pages.
- Plant the seeds of what’s to come beginning on the very first page.
- Avoid the crippling myth of “holding important info back for a big reveal later.”
- Make your reader have to know what happens next.
LISA CRON
Lisa Cron is a story coach and the author of Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers From the Very First Sentence and Story Genius: How To Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages that Go Nowhere), both published by Ten Speed Press.
Lisa has worked in publishing at W.W. Norton, as an agent at the Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency, as a producer on shows for Showtime and CourtTV, and as a story consultant for Warner Brothers and the William Morris Agency.
Since 2006, she’s been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts MFA program in visual narrative in New York City. Together with author, book coach and Author Accelerator CEO Jennie Nash she runs the online Story Genius Workshop.
Lisa works with writers, nonprofits, educators and organizations, helping them master the unparalleled power of story, so they can move people to action – whether that action is turning the pages of a compelling novel, or taking to the streets to change the world for the better. Or both!
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