Jagi, here

Our campaign for The Art and Craft of Writing is 214% funded!  We can now make at least 13 videos, making our Wordsmith Perk really a good value.

However, we still have four days yet and we are already 1/4 of the way to the final stretch goal.

If we make it, we will add The Trouble With Tropes.

We hear a lot about Tropes today, partially due to the popularity of TV Tropes. But what are Tropes? Are they the Legos of the literary world, building blocks you can combine any way you wish? Or is there something more to them? Did they develop randomly? Or is there a method to their story madness?

Is a Trope the ultimate application of The Trick?

Come tour the landscape of the human heart and soul with us and discover the truth about Tropes!

See The Art and Craft of Writing on Indiegogo.

A little over a week to go on The Art and Craft of Writing Indiegogo campaign, and we are 197% funded!

Now, however, a lovely and supportive fan has stepped forward with a generous offer. She is offering a $50 Zazzle certificate, hopefully to be used for The Wright Stuff or MysticalIris store, but usable anywhere on Zazzle. This certificate will go to the winner of a drawing of names of people who share the campaign.

So, if you want to participate, just share the Indiegogo link (this one) anywhere–blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc., and put the link to your post in the comments. Your name will be entered once for every share.

Thank you to our kind fan!

The Art and Craft of Writing on Indiegogo

Jagi, here.

Turns out, that if you put 6.00 into Indiegogo, it records $600. 

Several people let us know that the shipping for the 09 Wordmaster Perk was $600. That has been fixed. It is now $6.00.

In other news, we are 124% funded and just $11 short of being half way to our first stretch goal!

Thank you everyone!

Also, here’s last night’s Superversive Live Chat with Ben Wheeler and myself (Jagi).

See The Art and Craft of Writing campaign on Indiegogo

Jagi, here.

Sharing the opening intro to The Art and Craft of Writing, which is currently in an Indiegogo campaign.

Words on a Page

All writing is just words on a page.

What does this mean, and why does it matter to us? To answer that question, I must tell you a bit of a story.

When I was young, I was in awe of the ability of good authors to transport us to an entirely different life. Reading the greats was glorious but also occasionally intimidating. A good book can make us sympathize first with a frightened rabbit and then with a hungry fox. They call upon us to “burn with the bliss and suffer the sorrow of all mankind.”

I loved what I read but I despaired that I could ever accomplish anything half so wonderful. I feared I would never figure out the mystery of how my favorite authors conveyed so much.

Then one day, it struck me. Books were just words on a page. Read the remainder of this entry »

The Internet has made many things easy.

With a click of a button, we upload novels to Amazon for the whole world to read. No years waiting for a publisher to discover us.

But no distribution into bookstores either.

No one can stop writers from achieving their dreams of being published today, but will anyone buy it? And, if they do, will they want to read the next one?

The best way to ensure future sales is to offer your reader a really good book!

Superversive Press wants to help!

To this end, Superversive Press wants to provide courses on how to write—providing all the tools you need to bring your writing up to the next level!  Our first course is:\

The Art and Craft of Writing

What Our Students Are Saying:

Here are some responses from students who have taken the in-person version of The Art and Craft of Writing :

“The course is a treasure trove of practical, positive advice you can use immediately to improve your WIP or solidify your ideas for a new project.” author Marina Fontaine

“I  took L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright’s “Guinea Pig” writing class last November and it definitely upped my game. Since “graduating” her course, I’ve sold six short stories and am now working on my first novel. Thanks, Jagi.” James Pyles

“I especially liked how you simply laid out ideas about story and characters, which instantly made me go “Oh, yeah! I’ve seen that before!”. In particular:

• The conflicting traits and goals in of character adding depth.
• How you can use The Trick to evoke an emotional response.
• The power of the Two Strings.
• How you can use the Ultimate Secret to bring focus into the story.

I felt that these were techniques that would have taken me ages to work out on my own, and seeing them simply stated has seriously helped me as a writer.”  Billy Charlton

See The Art and Craft of Writing on Indiegogo

Coming soon from the beautiful and talented wife: The Art and Craft of Writing indiegogo campaign  (to turn her writing course into videos.)