Are you still hiding your manuscript in the back of your underwear drawer?
How to Get Paid for Your Writing and Keep More of Your Money!

Let's face it:

Most Talented writers

Don't realize the value of their work (or how close to publication they really are)

Don't want to admit they actually string words together -- and they enjoy the process.

Have suffered through critique groups that shattered their egos (and demand only positive learning experiences from now on).

And they have day jobs and families -- so they give up on their dream.

The good news is: Your writing dreams can stay alive.

 

Photo By Ted Lynn

Are you...

Tired of sitting through hours of lecture on writing theory when you'd like to cut to the chase and start writing for money?

Ready to toss your word processor across your latest Critique Group because you need constructive, helpful direction -- not a majority vote?

Eager to transform your novel idea into a story that agents will fight over ?

Frustrated with sending large sums of your hard-earned money to tax collectors and looking for easy, legal ways to keep more of your earnings?

Getting discouraged because your writing still feels like a hobby and you know you've got the ability to be a paid professional - if you only knew where to start?

Bogged down in a day job and want to meet some real live writers?

Tearing up a first draft that you want to take to the next level so you'll get taken seriously by the New York publishing world?
 
Suspecting everyone but you knows the secrets of getting published - like how to send a manuscript to an editor who wants agented work only?
 

Mary Lynn and Ted Lynn team up to offer hands-on workshops that can get your writing out of the underwear drawer - and on its way to an agent's desk.

Mary and Ted can help you...

 Dust off your manuscript and begin to think professionally.
 
  Recognize when you have a marketable idea for a short story,
article, nonfiction book -- or even a best-selling novel.
 
 Most of all, remember why you did this: because writing is FUN!

Forget the 3 F's:

Mary and Ted don't waste time on fluff, frills and feel-good exercises.

  You'll get professional feedback from them -- not from fellow students who know less than you.

  You'll get how-to exercises from the very first minute - like how to plot your mystery, scene by scene.

  You'll get examples you won't find anywhere else - like what you can learn from movies, television and popular fiction.
 

Mary and Ted are easy to listen to...

You won't go to sleep.

You will laugh.

You start and finish on time -- every time.

You go home with a stack of handouts so you don't have to take notes -- and you keep on learning.

You get a follow-up exercise -- personally evaluated by Mary or Ted -- worth double your tuition for each class.
 

Sample Workshops Offered:

Workshops can be customized to meet specific needs.

Flyers and press releases provided to seriously interested sponsors.

Fees range from $1000 - $3500 for one to five day classes, plus transportation from Silver City, New Mexico and lodging.

Maximum 20 students per class.

Sponsor handles registration and provides a meeting room, TV and DVD player. Fees must be paid before classes begin.


The 2-Day Intensive: Our special seminar for writers who are (or want to be) really serious.

Fiction, Nonfiction, Business of Writing:
Friday evening to 2 PM Sunday
Every aspect of writing, from the moment you say, "I should write about that," all the way through to the bylines, accolades, and autograph signings.

One-day Workshops: (may be combined for 2-day intensives)

Quick & Easy Plotting - 2 Hours: Kick your hero off a balcony, then make sure he hits a dozen flagpoles on the way down. Learn how to keep readers turning pages—guaranteed! And never be without material for your next 100 plots!

Starting Your Novel:
Morning: Plot Analysis - 4 Hours: Discover the techniques of story structure and character development while developing life lines, back stories, time lines, sequence outlines, and plot calendars.
Afternoon: Charismatic Characters - 4 Hours: Discover how to create 3-Dimensional characters who take over your plot and make your novel memorable (especially since series characters are becoming essential for publication)

Mystery Novel Workshop: Dead Body on Page 1. Now What?
Takes the beginning or advanced writer from puzzle to professional style needed to create a salable  mystery/suspense/thriller. You'll get a step-by-step guide to polishing your idea, creating authentic settings (which often operate like extra characters), plotting, developing characters who leap off the page, while -- most important -- sustaining suspense.

Romance Novel Workshop: Lovers Quarrel on Page 1. Now What?
This workshop helps writers hone their technique for the highest paying markets: Romance and Women's (and men are welcome, too). Discover the stylistic touches that alert editors to your status as a professional writer, not an amateur with stars in her eyes.

The Business of Writing: Only Ted Lynn can turn finance and contracts into a day that keeps you laughing out loud while you learn how to hang on to your money. You'll learn everything from finding an agent, negotiating with editors, protecting your rights, and how to avoid giving away your life in order to get published. You'll understand why self-publishing may (or may not) make sense. And you'll learn why you should toss away the first contract you're offered (before it's too late).

Writing for Business - 7 Hours: Make $20,000 to $100,000+ Writing for Businesses. In this seminar, you will learn how to serve the writing needs of local, regional, and national businesses, by creating radio spots, display ads, articles for newspapers and magazines, brochures & flyers, instruction manuals, and customer newsletters. Then you’ll learn how to catch the eye of editors for trade magazines who are always looking for new writers, and who pay as well, or better, than many consumer periodicals. You’ll write leads, conduct interviews, and learn how to determine a magazine’s audience. Extensive handouts are included to minimize the need to take copious notes.

Self-Publishing: Take charge of your writing! Ted & Mary Lynn, who've been on both sides of the desk, give you the straight scoop -- from setting up the business, to production, marketing, editing, design, artwork, pricing, bar codes, and a whole lot more. You'll follow the process from holding a finished manuscript till you see a bound copy in the bookstore.

Copywriting for Websites: Web design gets your site up, but copy draws visitors and sells products. Ask about a one-day workshop with our associate Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D., business consultant and copywriter. May be combined with other workshops. 

One & two-hour classes: For writers conferences and group meetings. $250 per hour plus travel, room, and board.
 

INSTRUCTORS:

Mary Lynn

Eleven published novels (Simon & Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, Harlequin/Silhouette), including Anna's Child, a Waldenbooks best seller.

Author of EVERY PAGE PERFECT: A Full-Size Writer’s Manual for Manuscript Format & Submission Protocol, used as a reference by thousands of writers.

Designer of education programs for the 1200-member Southwest Writers Workshop, which she co-founded in 1985.
 
Co-founder of Sandia Publishing Company, publisher of 14 nonfiction books, including 'Telling Lies For Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers' by Lawrence Block.

Writing instructor at University of Oklahoma, University of New Mexico, University of Texas, and Santa Fe Community College and others.
                
More than 20 years leading workshops at conferences and special sessions.

Ted Lynn

40 years of experience with contracts and contract law.

Sold more than 1,000 articles and hundreds of photos to newspapers and magazines.

Author of 'No Slack,' a biography of LA Lakers' Michael Cooper, 1987 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.

Six years experience as a radio talk show host.

President and Business Manager, Sandia Publishing.

Graduate of US Air Force Academy.

Completed classes in contract law at University of Miami Law School.
 
Eleven Years as a writing instructor in universities, colleges and writers' workshops.

Completed MBA, Golden Gate University

Classes are scheduled six months in advance.

To get started:

Email:

mary at writerscenter dot com

ted at writerscenter dot com

(You must substitute the "@" for "at" and a "." for "dot." It will be a "real" email address that way. We list our email addresses as shown above to fool those pesky bots that mine email addresses for spammers!)

Call:

505-388-3813.     

Write:

Lynnx Ink

6 Burke Loop

Silver City NM 88061