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  New England Writers' Centre

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:
  • 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?
This workshop is sure to change your whole understanding of writing!

Workshop details

When:   Saturday 30 October 2021
Time:    10:00am - 12.00pm (AEDT)
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Where:  Online, via Zoom
Price:      $30 NEWC Members | $ 45 Non-members
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Meet your presenter

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.​
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  • Home
  • Program
    • 2021 Summer Micro Grants
    • Managing your creative business
    • On Point: finding a fresh perspective
    • Scriptwriting 101
    • Writing Romantic Thrillers
    • Inside Story
    • Short Story Crit Clinic
    • Life Writing
    • Structure & plotting when writing for children
    • Rural Crime Writing Festival
    • Discover your illustration style
    • The Illustrated Story
    • Editing Your Manuscript
    • Self-publishing with InDesign
    • Self-publishing & The Indie Author
    • Writing super creative kidlit
    • Your Creative Body
    • Beyond the Rules of Writing
    • Researching and writing Historical Fiction
  • ARA Historical Novel Prize
  • Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing
  • Illustration Prize for children's picture book illustration
  • Varuna-NEWC Fellowship
  • About
    • Our Board
    • Our Sponsors
  • Membership
  • Contact Us
  • 2020 Archive
    • Thunderbolt Prize 2020 >
      • Thunderbolt Prize 2020 Judges Reports
      • Thunderbolt Prize 2020_Winning submissions
    • Illustration Prize 2020 Winners
    • Varuna Fellowship 2020
    • 2020 Historical Novel Prize >
      • About the judges
  • Resources
    • Inside Story Book
    • By The Book video series
    • Stories Connect
    • Blog
    • Useful links!