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Selling Stories


© Diane Goldberg

Lessons

Lesson 1: Getting Started
This lesson focuses on how to find your story and voice to prepare a story for submission to the Chicken Soup series, and how to avoid common errors...
Rejection Blues
What every Chicken Soup Writer Should Know but Doesn't Want to Ask
Exploring Inner Space

Lesson 2: Finding Your Story
Here's where we look at finding the story you want to tell, refining it and focusing it. Many of the exercises we will do are specific to writing...
Catching Ideas for Soup Stories
Exercises for Idea Catching
But, I already know I want to write about . . .

Lesson 3: Let's do it! Writing your Chicken Soup story.
Ready set write! You know your topic, your message and what emotion you want to evoke. . . Time to get the job done....
Where to start.
Okay --- I've started . . . Now what?
End Game
Finished? Not hardly.
Kind of, Sort of, Maybe Rules

Lesson 4: Getting your story in final form.
Finishing the final draft, polishing, revising and submitting....
Okay, So, I have this marked up manuscript . . .
About those marks on your manuscript
Let it flow . . .
The End -- and we all lived happily ever after.

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