WRITING CINEMATICALLY: USING MOVIE TECHNIQUES TO BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE

Using movie techniques—writing cinematically—is a great way to be sure you are showing instead of telling and may even make your novel more likely to be optioned for film.

Deborah Raney will explore how to translate movie techniques into novel-writing techniques that guarantee you are crafting vivid scenes that show instead of tell, that ensure you are using point-of-view to the best advantage, deepening characterization, and employing many other secrets of strong screenwriting that will revolutionize your novel writing.

DEBORAH RANEY’s first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched Deb’s writing career. Forty books later, she’s still creating stories that touch hearts and lives. Her novels have won the RITA Award, the ACFW Carol Award, the National Readers’ Choice Award, and the HOLT Medallion. She is also a three-time Christy Award finalist.

Deborah teaches at writers’ conferences across the country and served on the executive board of the 2500-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization for almost 18 years. She is a recent transplant to Missouri with her husband, Ken Raney. They love road trips, biking, Friday garage sale dates, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard.

Visit Deb on the Web at www.deborahraney.com.

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