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  Free Expressions
Fiction After Fifty Workshop

A unique 2 1/2 day seminar for novelists of “a certain age”

PLEASE NOTE: 2009 EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELED.
WE DO HOPE TO BRING THIS WORKSHOP BACK IN 2010.
MANY THANKS -- FREE EXPRESSIONS

Ron Benrey RON AND JANET BENREY Janet Benrey

You’re a late-blooming novelist in a hurry to get published. Don’t waste precious years learning to write successful fiction by trial-and-error. Don’t duplicate the novice mistakes that have slowed down countless other writers.

Fiction After 50 ® is 2 1/2 days of classes, workshops, and guided small-group brainstorming sessions filled with practical exercises — an intensive program that will help you refine a novel-in-progress (or your ideas for the novel you want to write) and increase the likelihood that you’ll sell your manuscript to a real publisher.

Learn to:

  • Write the kind of fiction that readers love to read ... and editors want to buy
  • Tell a compelling story
  • Write with a powerful authorial voice
  • Create vivid fictional dreams for your readers
  • Create a personal strategy (a game plan for you) that will set your work apart from the competition
  • “Buy time”
  • Keep destructive emotions from slowing you down
  • Identify activities, attitudes, and investments that actually increase the risk of rejection ... and much much more!

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Ron and Janet Benrey sold their first novel when both were beyond 50. Since then they’ve gone on to co-write eight more novels and independently write three novellas. Janet also launched the Benrey Literary Agency (a full-service literary agency that represents two dozen novelists) and Ron has written two “Complete Idiot’s Guides” for Penguin Group, including “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Christian Fiction.” Ron and Janet lead workshops at major writers’ conferences that have taught many hundreds of participants how to write publishable fiction that will sell more quickly.

When it comes to writing Fiction After 50®, Ron and Janet Benrey have been there, done that, and have the novels to prove it. Let them teach you how to accelerate writing — and selling — your novel.

calling younger writers
No ... you don't have to be 50+ to attend Fiction After 50®. The only requirement is a desire to speed up the process of writing and selling your first novel.



NEW STUDENTS:
$399

RETURNING STUDENTS*:
$379

*“Returning student” refers to any student who has attended either a Breakout Novel weekend workshop or Breakout Novel Intensive, sponsored by Free Expressions Seminars. Other day-long or weekend programs sponsored by other organizations don’t, unfortunately, apply.