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Due to overwhelming demand, we’re happy to report that Nina’s Master Writing Class will open to more members, starting January 2011. Here’s what you get:

$49/month guarantees you four weekly coaching sessions a month in this exclusive club of writing enthusiasts.   

In this Master Writing Class you meet with Nina once a week in a teleseminar for an hour of lecture and discussion on popular writing and publishing topics. Each of you gets a chance to ask Nina questions on specific issues you are facing during the question and answer period following her entertaining lecture. Nina covers all the big issues that both new and established writers face daily in their careers. as she brings her wit and humor to examples from her own adventures as a pre-published and published writer.

Issues like:

  • getting started
  • dealing with time management & writer’s block
  • getting those ideas down and making a story out of them
  • focusing and maintaining the staying power to finish
  • incorporating all the elements of good storytelling like plot, character, theme and setting into a seamless story
  • making your writing compelling, clear and exciting
  • doing research and editing
  • marketing, synopses & outlines, query letters
  • overcoming fear (of failure, of success, of everything)

During each session you have the chance to discuss any topic you are facing in your current writing project. Join our group, participate and learn.

Here’s what some of Nina’s coaching students say:

Nina was warm and encouraging.  I felt free to share my fears and ask questions.  She was extremely knowledgeable, gracious and honest.   I felt as though she really wanted me to succeed as a writer, and was a mentor sent to provide guidance and inspiration.”–Zoe Hicks, GA

Nina Munteanu’s command of the subject matter and her ability to explain in a way that the audience understood was excellent. As a hopeful author, I found her words inspiring.”—Amanda Lott, GA

Rarely have I encountered someone of Nina’s considerable talent and intellect tied to such an extraordinary work ethic…A gifted and inventive writer, Nina is also an excellent speaker who is able to communicate complicated ideas in simple terms and generate creative thought in others. Her accessible, positive approach and delightful sense of humor set people at ease almost immediately.”–Heather Dugan, OH

Nina provided invaluable advice with humour and finesse. It’s great to have access to such a friendly and funny individual who’s willing to be a sounding board to both beginning and career writers.”–Marie Bilodeau, Ontario

What you’ve done for me, Nina, is you’ve just opened up a whole new world. You’ve shown me how to put soul into my books.”–Hectorine Roy, Nova Scotia

Classes run every Thursday at 2 pm EST starting January 5th. There are limited spaces for this Master Class so availability will be on a first come basis. Once you successfully register, you will get an email with information on how to get in on the next call. Sign up for your first class here the first week of January 2011. See you in January!

UPDATE: Thanks for your wonderful response. Registration is now closed due to full capacity. Please check us at the beginning of each month for openings to Nina’s Master Class. In the meantime, please check out Nina’s online courses and if you have a project that needs a jumpstart or some work check Nina’s one-on-one coaching opportunities.

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The Hero’s Journey: Plotting Your Way to Publishing Success – November 6, 2010, 2-4 pm at the Bridgewater Library, Bridgewater, NS

Are you stuck in your writing project? Can’t focus? Not sure about the characters or where the story is going? These all relate to plot. All stories consist of common structural elements found universally in myth, fairy tale, dreams and movies. Scholar and mythologist Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, took the concept of the Hero’s Journey from the depth psychology of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and assigned 12 steps to the Hero’s Journey within the three-act play. Internationally published novelist and essayist Nina Munteanu shares details of this highly successful plot approach that will improve and jumpstart your writing and guarantee its improved marketability. 

Cost: $55/student; price includes text book, “The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!” (worth $27), and work sheets. Students are expected to bring an example of their current work.

Register for the Hero’s Journey Course through Nova Scotia South Shore Libraries. CLOSED–sold out. Check our online The Hero’s Journey course in Winter/Spring 2011.

 
How to Use Blogs and Social Networking to Promote Yourself — November 13, 2010, 2-4 pm at the Bridgewater Library, Bridgewater, NS

Most promotion by authors is currently done online. The many opportunities boggle the mind, however, particularly for those of us who aren’t terribly proficient with internet social media.  Both published and soon-to-be published authors are using Blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Websites with podcasts and other social networks to great success. Learn how to command this incredibly inexpensive and highly potent and efficient medium to promote you and your work.
 
Internationally published author and essayist Nina Munteanu is an active blogger and proficient social networker of many years. She publishes several blogs and participates in many social networks on the internet. Nina will share her knowledge and experience in this interactive discussion and multi-media lecture. Nina will go over steps on how to build a blog, and cover topics like how to get traffic to your site, Search Engine Optimizatin (SEO), what makes a good blog, how to write copy, the pros and cons of social networking, and other topics related to internet promotion and marketing. Bring your imagination.

Cost: $40/student; price includes worksheets, example blog articles.

Register for the Blogging/Social Networking Course through Nova Scotia South Shore Libraries. CLOSED — sold out.

Monthly continuing: Nina’s Master Writing Class (limited seats, by invitation only)

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Nina Munteanu, Prospect Bay, Nova Scotia

Nina’s ability to take arid academic prose and make it interesting to students is actually rather remarkable. I have been regularly using material she created for helping my students understand the hero’s journey in literature – the students find her writing engaging, accessible, and (and this is important) easily applicable not only to their readings but to their essays as well. Brava, Nina, brava.”

David Merchant, English Instructor, Louisiana Tech University

Students to professionals find Nina’s coaching and workshops lively, fun and very instructive.

Book Nina for an online or on-site personal or group coaching session at nina.sfgirl@gmail.com (use message title: Nina Coaching). You can also book Nina for weekly phone consultations, online webinars and livestream lectures through membership with “The Passionate Writer“. Rates are posted here.

Nina’s writing guide The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now! forms the basis for many of her lectures and workshops (see examples of her popular lectures and workshops here on “Nina’s Workshops“) and is found useful by a variety of writers from beginners to professionals. The guide is popular with college and university instructors of creative writing and English, and thoroughly enjoyed by students of writing and professional writers, alike.

The Fiction Writer is at the top of the required reading list for my students…A veritable cornucopia of hands-0n help for aspiring writers of any age…The quintessential guidebook for the soon-to-be-published.”

Susan H. McLemore, Language Arts Instructor, Glynn Academy

The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now! is available at Amazon.com, Chapters and Barnes & Noble, as well as discerning independent bookstores near you.

Nina Munteanu’s The Fiction Writer is the book I wish I had 15 years ago.  Writers young and old can find ways to improve their work, with the book’s fun, easy to read format.”— Theresa Vinson, Book Seller

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You’ve landed on the website of Nina Munteanu, internationally published Canadian SF author and ecologist.  Nina is living her dream of the writing life!  She is currently putting the finishing touches on her next science fiction novel.  And if you’re lucky, you might catch her at one of her writing workshops where she coaches great fiction writing!

The Mentor: Nina is frequently sought after for one-on-one mentoring as well as personal coaching and group workshops on all aspects of writing and publishing.  Because she has published frequently in both fiction and non-fiction, she knows exactly how to help her clients succeed in getting their works published.

The Ecologist: Nina currently does research and gives talks in science and limnology (No! That isn’t the study of limbs! She studies freshwater) and is driven by a passion to help keep our planet’s environment healthy.  In April 2010 she participated in talks with the Dalai Lama as part of the Mind and Life XX Conference on Altruism and Compassion in Economics in Zurich, Switzerland, where she participated in discussions on the use of ecological relationships in economic policy. Nina is a passionate traveler, and has tasted her way around the world from Bangkok to Paris.

The Author: Nina has published award-nominated short stories all over the planet (with translations into Greek, Romanian, Polish, and Hebrew). Two of her several novels, “Angel of Chaos” and “Darwin’s Paradox” (science fiction ecological thrillers by Dragon Moon Press), explores humanity’s co-evolution with machine intelligence and Nature’s intelligence. She also writes critical essays and reviews, several of which have appeared in Strange Horizons, IROSF, and The New York Review of Science Fiction. Her personal heroes include Dr. Lynn Margulis and author Ray Bradbury. Nina’s guidebook on writing, The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now! is currently used in schools and universities across North America.

The Blogger: Nina is also  The Alien Next Door, author of the award-wining blog which hosts lively discussions on pop culture, travel, science, writing and philosophy. Nina co-authors an environmental blog on climate change, Climate of Our Future. She frequently guest-blogs on Toulouse LeTrek, her feline friend’s travel blog.

 


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