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Seven Common Writing Problems
and How to Solve Them
with Patrika Vaughn

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No prerequisites.

Standard course: $200 / 8 weeks. Click here to register

Extended course: $250 / 16 weeks. Click here to register
Extended course gives you two weeks to do each lesson but contains NO additional material.

For questions about this COURSE, e-mail Patrika Vaughn at

Something not working in your fiction or non-fiction? Here's your chance to examine the seven most common problems that keep a manuscript from being publishable. In eight weeks you will learn how to see these problems, if present in your own work, and learn how to correct them in order to achieve publishing success.

Week 1: What editors and publishers look for in a manuscript: why manuscripts fail

Week 2: The Hookless Beginning

Week 3: Point of View

Week 4: Wooden characters: characterization

Week 5: Wooden characters:the qualities of an interesting character

Week 6: Unrealistic Dialogue

Week 7: Fluff & Repetition and Poor Research

Week 8: The Rushed Ending

Everything You Need to Know to WRITE PUBLISH & MARKET YOUR BOOK, available at www.acappela.com, is recommended but not required. Additional recommended audio book: The Writer's Tool Box, also available at www.acappela.com

"Get a replay of this class on tape. Go to www.acappela.com/tape_audiobks.htm

Patrika Vaughn has served as a literary agent, a professional writer, ghostwriter, publisher and teacher for 25 years.

Her works have appeared in more than 100 national journals and magazines and she is listed in The International Authors and Writers Who's Who. Her books, tapes and seminars have gained audiences from Florida to Finland. Awards include: Order of Excellence, Who's Who in the 21st Century, Also listed in Outstanding People of the 21st Century.

She is the world's leading Author's Advocate(TM), dedicated to showing today's writers how to become successful in today's changing publishing climate.