Workshop Leaders
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Incidental Worldbuilding Using Details – Lavie Tidhar
Read more / watch…: Incidental Worldbuilding Using Details – Lavie TidharWatch this excerpt from one of award-winning author Lavie Tidhar’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Writing The Story: From Conception To Sale.” Lavie talks about using details within brief descriptions to convey outsized information about the world in which your characters live. This is an especially valuable technique for short stories where space is limited.…
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How To Get New Ideas For Science Fiction – Lavie Tidhar
Read more / watch…: How To Get New Ideas For Science Fiction – Lavie TidharThis video clip is an excerpt from one of award-winning author Lavie Tidhar’s workshops for Reach Your Apex, “Writing The Sci Fi Short Story.” Here, Lavie talks about the challenge and importance of coming up with new ideas when writing science fiction. He offers a quick method for generating fresh science fiction story ideas. Lavie…
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How To Start Your Story – Lavie Tidhar
Read more / watch…: How To Start Your Story – Lavie TidharThis video clip is an excerpt from one of award-winning author Lavie Tidhar’s workshops for Reach Your Apex. During the Q&A section, a member of the class asked Lavie about how he likes to start his stories and books. (Our apologies: regrettably, text captions are not available for this video.) Lavie Tidhar’s next workshop
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Five Things I Wish I Knew As A New Indie Author – video essay
Read more / watch…: Five Things I Wish I Knew As A New Indie Author – video essayVideo essay: award-winning, best-selling novelist and Reach Your Apex instructor shares the five things she wishes she’d known when she was starting out as an indie author.
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Four Fast Fun Facts About Premee Mohamed, Award-Winning Author
Read more / watch…: Four Fast Fun Facts About Premee Mohamed, Award-Winning AuthorWe asked Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning author—and Reach Your Apex instructor—Premee Mohamed four “lightning round” questions about herself and her work. Let’s go: 1. What’s the last thing you finished reading or watching, and what did you think of it? I just finished reading MONARCHS OF THE SEA by Danna Staaf and…
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Instructor Profile-Premee Mohamed
Read more / watch…: Instructor Profile-Premee MohamedPremee Mohamed shared a great personal anecdote when I asked her about Reach Your Apex creating her instructor profile. As a junior high student, she was on several episodes of a local kids’ quiz show called “Hi-Q!” Somehow, I became even more impressed with Premee. Around these parts, we know Premee as one of the…
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Instructor Profile – Marie Vibbert
Read more / watch…: Instructor Profile – Marie VibbertMarie Vibbert isn’t just an author and Reach Your Apex instructor. According to the biography on her website, she’s been a medieval squire, ridden 17% of the roller coasters in the United States, and has been a defensive lineman for the Cleveland Fusion women’s tackle football team. She also has a varied and impeccable sense…
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Rebecca E. Treasure
Read more / watch…: Rebecca E. TreasureRebecca grew up reading in the Rockies. After living many places, including the Gulf Coast & Tokyo, she began writing fiction. Rebecca’s short fiction has been published by Flame Tree, Zooscape Magazine, Galaxy’s Edge, and others. She is an editor at Apex Magazine and a writing mentor. She juggles children, corgis, and writing. She only…
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Ai Jiang
Read more / watch…: Ai JiangMeet instructor Ai Jiang.
