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How to Take Your Writing Skills to the Next Level

3/24/2023

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How to Take Your Writing Skills to the Next Level


Learn expert writing techniques with my Hit Writer Course. The video lessons apply to authors and screenwriters in any genre across fiction and narrative non-fiction. If you join, you'll also gain access to me to personally help you as you write your next story. 
How to Improve Your Writing Skills

Expanding on your Intro Course skills


​In my writing Intro Course, I teach important writing skills for characters, plot, theme, and emotional impact. These skills will form a solid foundation for you. They can help you write a great story. However, you can improve a lot more from there.

Tap into thousands of years of writing wisdom


Storytelling has been around for thousands of years - since early humans told tales around campfires. And some of the smartest people of all time - such as Aristotle - have dedicated themselves to storytelling. Because of all those years and all those sharp minds, significant insights about storytelling have been discovered.

Regardless of format or genre, many of the best stories of all time have traits in common. If you know where to look, you can see these commonalities. And if you know how to apply them to your own stories, you can deliver thousands of years of force from your pages.  

What are the traits the best stories have in common?


​These stories tend to be well structured. What does that mean? Their beginnings, middles, and ends aren't just collections of interesting events. The events are sequenced together in a purposeful way to hook, captivate, and wow the audience. 

An act is a tool writers use to structure their stories. Though the term "act" is mentioned a lot, most people can't accurately define it. To properly harness the power of acts, you need to understand what one is in detail.

​Acts are a great way to structure your scenes in a sequence. However, the best stories don't just unfold their scenes in a dramatic order - the scenes themselves are dramatic. All of them.

Mastering the dynamics of a scene is essential if you want to take your writing to the next level. Which characters should go in which scenes? What should those character be doing? How should those scenes start? How should they end? What should you leave out of a scene? You need to have answers to every one of these questions.

Finally, the events in all your scenes need to be connected in an effective web. You need to apply techniques for drama building to assure that you supply anticipation between scenes and generate strong emotional payoffs when you want them.

For instance, have you ever been blown away by a certain event in a certain scene? Like a character dying? Or a character saving another? Or a character proposing to another? Well, your emotional reaction likely wasn't tied to just that one scene. A highly skilled writer likely built it up over multiple scenes by effectively tying story events together.

Do you want to write like this?


Luckily for you, I offer a sequel to my Intro class...my Hit Writer Course. There, I go into depth on these potent writing techniques.

​In full disclosure, the Premium course isn't free. But it's well worth the fair price. You can get through all the material in just two days. By the end, you'll definitely be a much better writer. And you'll definitely feel more enthusiastic about your writing career than ever...
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More writing course topics


Some more writing topics the Hit Writer Course covers...
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  • Story structure
  • Character obstacles
  • Story pacing
  • Creating a great hero
  • Creating great allies
  • Inciting incidents
  • ​Your hero's want vs. need
  • Character decisions
  • Creating a great villain
  • Incorporating multiple opponents
  • Settings
  • Raising the stakes
  • Story climaxes
  • Winding down after the climax
  • Story themes
  • Dialogue
  • Description
  • ​More

What do you get if you join the writing course?

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  • Dozens of video lessons, taught by me, on expert structural techniques
  • A Premium Blueprint that guides you into outlining every scene of your story
  • PDFs with examples
  • A bonus PDF with examples of the course's character and plot tactics in popular stories you know
  • A bonus PDF with examples of the course's drama-building tactics in popular stories you know.​
  • ​You'll also be able to ask me any questions as you write your next story and I'll personally respond to each (for up to a year)

Is the class worth the price?


With the new, expert skills you'll gain, your next story should have a lot of audience appeal. If you're an author, this can lead to the sale of many more book copies and if you're a screenwriter, your chances of selling your script can go up.

​If your story is even somewhat successful financially, you should make back the course's cost fairly quickly, plus earn even more.

Not to mention, the course comes with a full-refund guarantee. If you register, watch all the lessons, and don't feel you learned new, high-quality writing skills, just contact me
 within two weeks and I'll give you a 100% refund. No questions asked.

Ready to become an expert writer?


I'll see you in the Hit Writer Course.
1 Comment
Richard BACON
5/15/2023 10:07:12 am

I "took" to our intro course and have worked through a number of books by James Scott Bell.

1. What will your premium blueprint course do for me in addition to what I already have?

2. Once I have finished the course, for how long will I be allowed to come back to your website to review?

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.

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