WRITING ACADEMY INC.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Students also often ask me for textbooks to accompany courses. Frankly, it takes a lot longer to create a book than a video class. So this time I decided to try something new. I hired a company through to transcribe the many, many hours of video in the course. That provided the raw basis for the text. Then it helps you organize your story into either chronological, thematic or anecdotal form. A comprehensive collection of writing prompts helps you collect and organize the events that shaped a life. Writing Academy . Several of the video classes expand upon the written college-level courses offered through ed2go, taking advantage of the additional depth provided by a video presentation. Brainstorm, Write and Publish Your Own Bestseller Featuring lively interplay between Young Adult Fiction authors Steve and Dani Alcorn, this engaging book gives you all the tools you need to create a bestseller. You’ll learn how to use the techniques of top-selling authors to create your own finished novel and get it published! You’ll discover how to build a perfectly structured story that’s guaranteed to work, and populate it with realistic young adult characters, We’ll reveal the viewpoint and tense that’s most likely to create a bestseller. Once your manuscript is complete we’ll show you how to get it published, and give you examples of book covers that sell. Fortunately, I had a free consultant to help me through the process. During the 1960s my family kept a trailer in a trailer park in Three Rivers, California, just outside Sequoia National Park. We spent most summer weekends there, making the three-hour trip from Los Angeles on Friday nights. Many years later I met Michael Connelly, the best-selling author of the Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series. I was amazed to discover that, as a child, a librarian pushed him to read Best-Selling Orlando ABC went from concept to first printing in less than a month. The total production cost, consisting of photo rights, was less than $500. My wife spent 38 years designing theme parks for Wlat Disney Imagineering, so it seemed only natural to ask her to help out with my second children’s book, about a monkey who gets her friend to help construct a theme park. But the end product is a pretty good yarn that will appeal to mystery, action and Romance fans. After collecting a lot of material, doing a lot of writing, and taking a crack at putting it together in some sort of order, life intervened. We ended up on opposite sides of the country. On October 1, 1982, The Walt Disney Company opened its EPCOT Center to the world, heralding changes that would take the Disney property in Florida from a mere theme park to a world-class resort destination. It is a breathtaking, breezy, E-ticket ride of a book, required reading for both hard-core Disneyphiles and people interested in the business side of themed entertainment.