Beyond the Rules of Writing, with Dario Ciriello
Join author and editor Dario Ciriello for a fun, eye-opening, and iconoclastic workshop on developing and nurturing your own unique writing talent, all the way to making that hard choice between indie and trad publishing.
With a blizzard of writing advice and diktats coming at you from bloggers, agents, and fellow writers endlessly parroted on every corner of the Internet, learn which 'rules' matter and which are just noise; above all, learn what readers -- the ones who actually plonk down money for your book -- really care about.
Topics covered will include:
With a blizzard of writing advice and diktats coming at you from bloggers, agents, and fellow writers endlessly parroted on every corner of the Internet, learn which 'rules' matter and which are just noise; above all, learn what readers -- the ones who actually plonk down money for your book -- really care about.
Topics covered will include:
- Why I became a rebel author
- What's important in a story and which 'rules' actually matter
- Show, don't Tell -- the most misleading rule of all
- Make me care
- Sex and fight scenes
- The self-censorship trap
- When the going gets tough
- Revision and editing
- The limitations of critique and writer's groups
- Indie or trad pub?
Workshop details
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When: Saturday 30 October 2021
Time: 10:00am - 12.00pm (AEDT) Not in NSW? Click here for a handy timezone conversion tool Where: Online, via Zoom Price: $30 NEWC Members | $ 45 Non-members |
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Meet your presenter
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Dario Ciriello is a professional author and editor as well as the founder of Panverse Publishing.
Dario's fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper/thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work. Dario’s 2011 nonfiction book, Aegean Dream, the bittersweet memoir of a year spent on the small Greek island of Skópelos (the real Mamma Mia! island), was an Amazon UK travel bestseller. The Fiction Writing Handbook: The Rebel Author’s Guide to Writing Beyond the Rules, is his second nonfiction work. |
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In addition to writing, Dario, who lives in the Los Angeles Area, offers professional editing, copyediting, and mentoring services to indie authors. In the past decade he’s edited and/or copyedited scores of novels, five anthologies, and various nonfiction works.
