Nina Munteanu, The Writer's Toolkit, Vancouver, BC
The Writer’s Toolkit:
Nina gives her popular three 2-hour workshops The Writer’s Toolkit throughout North America, from Vancouver to Halifax and Louisville to San Diego. For details of the workshop series and testimonials by students go to The Writer’s Toolkit page.
This workshop is also given as an in-depth 10-week online course, based on Nina’s acclaimed writing guidebook The Fiction Writer. Go to the Online Courses page for more information on this course.
“Nina was engaging and inspiring in a low-key, no hype, practical way…I was able to use specifics that were discussed to immediately improve my writing.”
–Susanne Beck, Bridgewater, NS
The Hero’s Journey:
Nina’s popular interactive lecture on The Hero’s Journey is taught throughout North America in conferences, schools, libraries and online.
“I am new to the field of fiction writing (having written non-fiction in the past), and was fascinated by Nina’s clear and extremely interesting lecture on the Hero’s Journey. Maybe all writer’s have a novel in their heads they want to write one day, and the techniques Nina shared with us will help me when I get to that point. In fact, because of her, I may get there a lot sooner than I had planned.”
— Zoe M. Hicks, Saint Simon’s Island, GA
“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
Nina’s modular workshops and online courses include the following popular topics:
- Story Construction & Storyboarding: from scene to world
- Beginnings, Middles and Ends
- Character, Dialogue & Setting
- Elements of Craft and Storytelling
- From Idea to Story: the steps
- How to Keep Your Muse (and beat writer’s block)
- Keeping Your Focus
- Marketing & Promotion (tricks that work!) & How to Make Rejection Work for You
- Outlines/Synopses & the Query Letter
- Plotting with Purpose: Plotting Approaches that Work
- Sensual Writing & Metaphor
- Self-Editing and Language Polish
- The 10 Commandments of Writing Fiction
- Storytelling in Non-Fiction
- The Short Story
- Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Writing the Historical Fantasy
- Writing Memoirs
- How to Conduct Research and not Die Doing It
- Social Networking & Blogging (Internet Promotion)
- Write with Passion
- The 5-Ps of Publishing
Nina’s workshops and consultations are custom-created to client’s needs. Refer to the Online Courses page for current status and availability of online courses and to register.
You can book Nina in your town or for online consultation at nina.sfgirl@gmail.com (include “Nina, the writing coach” in your message line. Refer to Nina’s coaching/editing and pricing page for her rates. Nina is available for online, one-on-one consultations and workshops.
Check our online course page to see what is currently available.
