Writing course - The Hero's Journey

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"I cannot think of a more useful tool. Thorough, folksy, immaculately reasoned, eminently listenable, the course fortunately mirror Barnes' personality: intelligent, dedicated and extraordinarily witty."
-- 1982 PULITZER PRIZE nominee Chris Bunch

"Outstanding. Barnes educates, entertains, and more importantly, motivates… in a no-nonsense cut-to-the-chase method useful for everyone from beginners to working professionals. He's been there, done that, and he shares it joyfully herein. The tapes would be a bargain at twice the price."
--New York Times best selling novelist Steve Perry

“Lifewriting…changes recreation into restoration, and allows us to decipher the collective wisdom of mankind (no small feat!). It it the ultimate interpreter for the language of personal myth."
Mike Sargent, writer, filmmaker, radio personality (WBAI "Nightshift")

Why I say: "If Law Schools produced as few working lawyers as Writing programs produce working writers, they'd be prosecuted for Fraud!"

The origins of the Lifewriting Year-Long writing course, the sum total of everything I've learned in thirty years of professional writing.

Hi! My name is Steven Barnes, and over the years I've published over TWO MILLION words of novels, stories and articles. I'll do more to establish my bona fides later, but the important thing is that you understand that writing is what I love. (In fact, there are only three things in the world that I spend any time on: writing/teaching, martial arts, and my relationship to family and friends.)

For thirty years, I have toiled in the trenches, creating books like the bestselling DREAM PARK series, THE LEGACY OF HEOROT, and THE CESTUS DECEPTION (New York Times bestseller), and written for television shows from "The Twilight Zone" to "Baywatch." My twenty-fourth novel, FROM CAPE TOWN WITH LOVE, written with my wife, American Book Award winner Tananarive Due, and movie/television star Blair Underwood, was published t in May of 2010.

One of the things you have to understand about me is that I never had any confidence in my ability to craft a career on talent alone. In fact I DON'T REALLY BELIEVE IN TALENT. I believe in honesty and hard work, over time. To this end, I ve been obsessed with digging deeper and deeper into the question of who am I studying every self-improvement discipline I could find, challenging myself by jumping out of airplanes, walking on hot coals, kickboxing, teaching and lecturing, swimming with dolphins, broiling in sweat lodges, and anything else I could find that would give me a fingernail fragment s more insight into my psyche and wiring.

Along the way, I was nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, won the Endeavor Award for LION'S BLOOD, and was nominated for the Cable Ace Award for my television work, which also garnered an Emmy for the "A Stitch In Time" episode of "The Outer Limits." I won the NAACP Image Award for the mystery novel IN THE NIGHT OF THE HEAT. Want to see more about my books? Check here on Amazon. Want to know more about what I've written for television? Check out my profile on IMDB, the International Movie DataBase. (Try to find another writing instructor who'd make THAT offer!)

Over the years, I've spent countless hours lecturing on story telling, myth, the Hero's Journey, and human consciousness--as well as the nuts-and-bolts of practical, selling writing.

I have taught at UCLA and Seattle University, lectured at USC, Mensa, the Pasadena Jet Propulsion Lab, the Smithsonian Institute, the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop, and the Maui Writer's Conference.

Here s a grim challenge: do your internet search and try to find a writing instructor who doesn't make most of his bucks teaching. That's the sad state of affairs.

And it makes me fighting Mad. I LOVE writers, and writing, and the life it's given me. And over the years I've given away tons of free writing advice (check out www.lifewrite.com!) to writers all over the world. But I'm disgusted with the state of most MFA and writing programs, both at the University level and in "specialized" education houses. (By the way--I have nothing but respect for those programs who actually turn out working writers. If you are lucky enough to have one of those on your resume, run back and kiss your teacher RIGHT NOW! Most students aren't that lucky.)

Over the years, thousands of students have begged me to put my core teachings--a trademarked, unique approach called "Lifewriting "--down in a book or course, and I'd never really done it. I've been a part of the publishing industry long enough to know that they see writing either in the structural sense OR the internal psychological/spiritual sense, but never both

You see, I've watched so hopeful writers floundering through the maze of mediocre advice that it is actually depressing.

A few years back while traveling in Tanzania with my daughter, Nicki, I was was charged by an elephant (!) an event that, quite understandably, had me contemplating my mortality. On the 20-hour flight home I had an epiphany, and decided that it was time to "empty out my head" and make certain my hard-won knowledge would be available to everyone who really wanted to learn. But several preconditions had to be met:

It had to be reasonably complete. In other words, YOU DON'T NEED TO BUY ANYTHING ELSE.
It had to be simple: Just follow the instructions.
It has to be filled with hundreds of the very best exercises and ideas, things you won't find in any other book on writing--as well as the best wisdom that currently exists.
It has to demand that the student create genuinely finished product. You may be surprised at my suggestions in this arena. Whether you want to write novels, screenplays, plays, or whatever, this approach is the "fast track" to writing success, and will "skyrocket" your skill so fast you won't recognize your own work!
It has to imprint the basic skills of storytelling on your subconscious--otherwise you will never release your true artistic drive...you'll be too busy trying to remember your lessons!
It has to be flexible. Each student starts at a different place, has different needs and capacities. It needs to respect them all.
It has to offer the student FREE contact with me! That's right...just stay tuned to see how this all works.
It has to be appropriate for both literary/academic writers, and those who want a commercial career.

Well, after years of talking about it, I've created a ONE-YEAR PROGRAM designed to take the novice writer and ZOOM them ahead faster than they ever dreamed.

Here's what it contains: NOW ALL DOWNLOAD!

TWO LECTURES explaining my unique "Lifewriting" system of writing from "The inside-out." Unleash a FLOOD of creativity. SMASH writer's block forever (I'm never blocked, and I can tell you exactly how to do the same thing!). Learn how to take your personal experience and channel it into the best writing of your life!

SIX MORE LECTURES drawn from one of the only live lectures in which I taught my entire system. This is rare, priceless, golden wisdom, a gem-a-minute treasure trove of real-world, usable, dynamic teaching.

A 260-PAGE WORKBOOK, taking you by the hand through the next year of your writing life. You will work both hard AND smart, and

ONE YEAR FROM THE DAY YOU GET YOUR KIT, if you follow this advice carefully, you will vastly increase your odds of developing professional-level skill. (By the way: NO ONE can promise you a career. But what CAN be promised is an opportunity to explore the limits of your own potential.)

A MONTHLY MOVIE GUIDE. That's right--every month you will watch a movie, selected from the list of films analyzed according to "Lifewriting." Just rent, watch, read, and let your subconscious soak it in. Unbelievably easy and fun.

And here's the Corker: YOU GET A FREE SHORT STORY EVALUATION BY ME, PERSONALLY. How much would this cost ordinarily? At least five hundred dollars--if you could nail me down to do it at all!

And here's the end-all deal: A FREE THIRTY minute telephone consultation with me! That's right, and believe me, only after polling my students and finding out the single most valuable thing they would want from such a course, did I agree to do this.

"Steven Barnes is the best teacher on any subject I've ever seen. He communicates passion, the most important component of excellence, like a demon lover on speed!"--Dan Moran, author "The Long Run"

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HOW MUCH WOULD YOU EXPECT TO PAY FOR ALL THIS?

I don't teach much anymore because I'm too busy with the novels, movie work, and my family. I charge between $80-$150 an hour to teach martial arts and fitness or life coaching, or a minimum of $3,000 to travel for a single hour's lecture.

Go out on the Internet and you'll find people without a single produced credit charging FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for a ten-week course. But after spending THOUSANDS of hours, and HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars gathering these skills and techniques together, I'm selling this course for only $150. You would pay twice that to attend a weekend "Guru" seminar.

AND FOR A VERY LIMITED TIME, Until October 31, to celebrate my entrance into the digital download world, the LIfewriting Year-Long Course is available for only 149.00!!

STEVEN BARNES' LIFEWRITING carries a 100% ONE-YEAR UNCONDITIONAL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE. That's right. You can do every lesson, get your evaluation, even have your phone call with me--and then get EVERY DIME BACK!

Why am I doing something this crazy? Because, simply, I see myself in every young and old writer. I remember when I was a little kid from South Central L.A. who just wanted to be a storyteller, and the agony I went through learning the lessons that enabled me to survive.

That s why you ll learn not merely storytelling but:

Smashing writer's block.
Deep characterization
Goal setting
Keeping your energy and enthusiasm
Building a balanced, healthy artistic and personal life.
Breaking into the industry.
How much reading you should be doing.
How to generate story ideas
How to evolve your own, personal style.

And much, much more! Here's the most important statement I can make about my approach. If this doesn t sound like what you're looking for, trust your instinct, and spend your money elsewhere. But if it does, please believe that I will do everything in my power to give you the result you desire:

Lifewriting is a process by which you link the internal and external worlds of the writer, so that everything you learn in life automatically makes you a better storyteller, and everything you write automatically makes you a better person.

That s it, right there in a nutshell. If that idea intrigues you, then join me in a fascinating journey. This will be one of the very best life or career investments you have ever made.

Get started today-- Don't just write...LIFEWRITE!

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