Bestselling author and revered writing teacher
James Scott Bell
delivers powerhouse instruction.
"Time well spent. I expect Jim's teaching to inform my writing for years."
— Jerry B. Jenkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author
- The 7 critical success factors of fiction
- Character-driven v. plot-driven. What's the difference?
- The secure foundation that never fails
- The absolute essentials of structure
- How to write without dull parts
- How to write scenes with no dull parts
- The fastest way to improve your manuscript
- The amazing power of writing "from the middle"
- How to create "jump off the page" characters
- Giving your novel a deeper meaning
- The secret of "voice" in fiction
- Power revision: what it is and why it matters
- How to become an idea-generating factory
- Top ten ways to get ideas
This course includes a copy of James Scott Bell's popular ebook, Fiction Attack! Insider Secrets for Writing and Selling Your Novels & Stories For Self-Published and Traditional Authors. If you're ready to sell a novel, Fiction Attack! is the strategy you need.
Find out what bestselling authors do over and over again—and how YOU can replicate the magic.
Your Teacher
JAMES SCOTT BELL is a winner of the International Thriller Writers Award and is the author of the #1 bestseller for writers, Plot & Structure (Writer’s Digest Books). His thrillers include the Mike Romeo thriller series; Try Dying, Try Darkness, and Try Fear (the Ty Buchanan legal thriller series); and stand-alones including Your Son Is Alive and Final Witness (which won the first Christy Award for Suspense).
He served as the fiction columnist for Writer's Digest magazine and has written several popular writing books, including Just Write, Conflict & Suspense, and The Art of War for Writers (all from Writer’s Digest Books). He’s also published How to Write Dazzling Dialogue, Write Your Novel From the Middle, Super Structure, and How to Make a Living as a Writer. Links to all his writing books may be found HERE.
Jim has taught writing at Pepperdine University and at numerous writers conferences in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
What they are saying about James Scott Bell…
"I needed advice before I tried to write a novel. The usual axiom — write what you know — wasn't helpful. So I turned to James Scott Bell. He taught me how to structure a great entrance — the equivalent of gliding down a spiral staircase in a wedding gown — and how to keep the next 400 pages from becoming as hopelessly tangled as the crumpled papers and wads of gum in my old desk. My novel sold." – Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Opposite of Me
"James Scott Bell elevates the subtleties of plot, structure, and conflict to an art form. An hour at one of his workshops is game-changing." – Kami Garcia, #1 NYT Times & International Bestselling Co-Author of the Beautiful Creatures Novels & Author of Unbreakable (The Legion Series)
"I had a novel with problems I didn't know how to solve. After James Scott Bell's class, I knew the solutions. This was easily the most practical writing class I ever attended. I sold my novel using what I learned." — Darrell James, author of Nazareth Child
"I am inspired by Bell's enthusiastic approach, and impressed with his numerous, helpful insights into the craft of storytelling." – Bill Marsilii, screenwriter, Deja vu