The Heroine’s Journey Seminar

Gail will be running this Master Class next in July at Romancing the Craft find out more on her Events page.

4-6 Hour Seminar

Miss Carriger is an experienced teacher – articulate, insightful, and not afraid to make a fool of herself. She offers this seminar online ONLY once a year via the Writing the Other webinar series. She also teaches it in person as a master class at writer’s conferences.

The Heroine’s Journey for Writers:

Using Ancient Story Structure To Crack Bestselling Genres

We’ve all heard about the Hero’s Journey, but how often do we hear about the Heroine’s Journey?

Multiple NYT Bestseller and chronic writer of the Heroine’s Journey, Gail Carriger, provides a full break down of what aspects of heroine’s journey make for compelling narrative and voracious readers, where these elements originate, why they’re successful, and how to write them.

Take control of story structure by delving behind the scenes for hidden messages. Learn hacks and tips to improve your writing and make it more commercially viable. Gain insight into under-studied narrative conventions and modern publishing markets.

Guaranteed to leave you looking at plot structure in pop culture differently for the rest of your life.

You’ll leave this seminar with the following actionable items:

1. Narrative beats and steps to write a compelling journey and an understanding of why these are appealing based on history and mythology.
2. An understanding of why genre fiction (and romance in particular) is dismissed, vilified, and disregarded, and how to combat this negative stereotyping.
3. A solid and powerful alternate model to the overused and chronically discussed Hero’s Journey.

FOR ATTENDEES

• Special Extras (diagrams etc…)
• Citations & References
• Writer resources from Gail

This lecture takes 4 hours (with no breaks and no Q&A), c. 6 hours with pauses & discussion (recommended).

It is suitable for writers of all levels and styles, debut to established, genre to main-stream, screen to gaming to fiction.

However, it is primarily educational and not really appropriate for fan-facing conventions.

Online Webinar Organizers/Attendees Please Note 

These days Gail only offerings this course online as part of the Writing the Other webinar series. Usually in the late spring. It fills up fast. Read all about it here.

IN PERSON CONFERENCES PLEASE NOTE 

Gail uses Keynote on a MacPro (2020 M1) laptop for her lecture presentations. She’ll need facilities with projection and the appropriate cables (HDMI).

Sample The Heroine’s Journey audio book?

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Accolades

“Thank you for such a great workshop! 12 out of 10! Really useful information for me!”

~ Regas Chefas