Anita signed up for James Patterson's online writing class. This class will step through the process of moving from raw book ideas, to book plots, to researching your topics, to writing a one-page book summary and two-sentence book hook. Development of characters is heavily covered in the course and this understanding will help us immensely on future books.
What is Anita writing you ask? A novel about monks, nuns, Grandmasters and epic battles, that she started over 10 years ago. Its plot is also related to China's Sacred Mountains and our martial arts lineage, as it turns out!
For anyone who is interested, here is the online class:
https://www.masterclass.com/classes/james-patterson-teaches-writing
In addition, MasterClass is running a competition to compete, with the ultimate prize to become a co-author of James Patterson on a future book. Anita was not going to pursue this….
Then Dennis found out about the competition and triple dog dared Anita to submit an entry. The deadline for submissions is in the near future (3/22/16), so book writing and class taking will be Anita's future for the next few days!