My Story Doctor

Courses

The Advanced Story Puzzle

Creating a story is like putting a puzzle together, one with missing or misleading pieces.

David Farland

$399

The Story Puzzle

This course is based on David Farland's book, The Million Dollar Outline. In it, David walks you through the steps to develop an outline for your novel, giving you information for each step from Setting, Characters, and Conflicts to building your plots, working on theme and treatment of your story.

David Farland

$399

Writing Enchanting Prose

You’ve read stories that absolutely swept you away into another world, stories that made you forget you were reading and ultimately left you changed. In our first lesson, we’ll teach you how to communicate through writing on such a deep level, you can do that with your own stories.

David Farland

$399

Writing Mastery 1

What are the nine most common weaknesses that keep new authors from publishing successfully? This course will help you identify these problems and overcome them, strengthening your own writing through education and practice. Each topic is addressed in a taped lesson, followed by learning material, recommended reading, and a writing assignment. Learn to take your writing from “okay” to “powerful” and then “mesmerizing” in this first Writing Mastery course.

David Farland

$399

Writing Mastery 2

In Writing Mastery 2, the focus will be on your story, which means that you will spend more time brainstorming scenes and working to build your story as a whole. Many of these exercises are designed to help you see your story in a new way, brainstorm new scenes, and then begin writing them, so that you build on the existing framework of your novel. Settings that can give birth to incredible societies and characters, plus how to take those characters’ cores and generate enthralling conflicts for your plot.

David Farland

$399

Rewriting To Greatness

In this workshop you will learn why you need to become your own editor. You’ll learn why it’s important to make multiple passes while editing, and Dave will help introduce you to some of the best tools to guide you as you revise your novel.

David Farland

$399

Promising Starts

Think you’re ready to begin your novel? The new author is faced with a lot of tasks: introducing his world, his characters, and building his story. For most people, starting well is a struggle. This workshop will help guide you through the process of writing that difficult opening.

David Farland

$399

Magnificent Middles

For many writers, the most difficult part of a novel to write is the middle. Even professionals who outline well will often find that at the midpoint, they tend to second-guess their work, sit back and analyze their opening, consider their ending, and try to figure out how to get there in a way that will be entertaining and powerful.

David Farland

$399

5 Tips for Writing to a Large Audience

Just as the title says, in this course we will explore how to expand our writing to appeal to more than just one type of person.

David Farland

$99

Heinlein's Rules

More than 65 years ago, Robert Heinlein gave a few simple rules about how to approach your writing career. The advice is considered timeless, but a few things have changed since then, and maybe it’s time for some revision.

David Farland

$199

Kickstarting Your Career

Dave has helped numerous authors hit the New York Times Bestseller lists, so one of his most frequent questions is “How can I break into writing quickly?” In this series of lectures, Dave talks about some of the steps you need to take in order to build a successful career as a writer. This goes especially well with his book Million Dollar Book Signings, also included in this bundle.

David Farland

$199

Publishing Today

Many new writers put together a great book proposal, then send it to a lousy agent or publisher. By doing that, they may set their own career back by 5 years. So in this seminar, I talk about how to vet agents and publishers, how to meet them, and basically get a leg up on a stellar career. Just as importantly, I’ll give advice to help you decide whether to go Indie, because in some genres, you might not even want a publisher, and getting one could hurt your career.

David Farland

$199

Recharge Your Creative Batteries

All writers need to take time to recharge their creative battery when they're worn out. In this lecture, David Farland discusses the best, most productive ways to re-energize, so that you can get back to writing faster and with renewed spirits.

David Farland

$199

Worldbuilding

In this lecture, Dave takes you through the fundamentals of worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy, explaining the basics of how to create planets, new life forms, civilizations, and magic and power systems, in order to bring your world to life.

David Farland

$199

Writing for YA & MG

Dave has helped launch the careers of or train such notable writers as J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, and James Dashner. Many of these people write for the middle-grade and young adult genres, audiences which have their own particular needs. In these lectures, Dave talks about some of the special considerations for these audiences and tells why they can be so hard to break into, but also so lucrative.

David Farland

$199

Write Now Exercise

Designed to help you as a writer get in the mindset to write, this exercise will help you activate your brain to its highest writing potential and get you started working on your book right now.

David Farland

$99

The Writer's Peak

Want people to care about your stories? You can tell your readers what’s happening or you can hypnotize them, pull them deeper and deeper into your story. Let them hear what’s going on. Show them the world you’ve created. Help them smell the earth, taste the air. It’s your choice of course to make the best choice now and learn the mystical arts of master storytellers. Isn’t it? Forrest guides us through processes that draw your readers into your stories, hypnotizing them, transporting them into pure imagination.

David Farland

$399

Powerful Endings

In Powerful Endings, you will learn how to write the final struggle for your protagonist, how to handle the last try/fail cycle and the reversal, how to create a redemption or suitable fate for your contagonist. In this nine-part course, you’ll also learn about the denouement, how to bring closure to a story with surprising twists and stack scenes so that the conclusion is more impactful than the sum of its parts.

David Farland

$199

318R Writing Course - Dave & Rafael

Years ago, David taught this writing class focused on helping writers become successful in the industry.

David Farland

$997

Farland-Certified Fiction Coach Certification Program

Forrest Wolverton

$9,997

Writing Wonder

New York Times Best Selling Author David Farland talks about adding wonder to your science fiction and fantasy novels!

David Farland

$197

Forrest Wolverton's "Taking Charge" Training

Forrest Wolverton is a motivational speaker and personal trainer who helps writers get past the "blocks" that keep them from being the best writers they can be.

Forrest Wolverton

Apex Zoom Conference Meetings

Apex members can watch all previously recorded live Apex conference calls here!

David Farland

Apex Favorites

Learn from #1 experts like Brandon Sanderson, Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks

David Farland

$499

Apex Strategy Meetings

Apex members can watch all previously recorded live Apex strategy meetings here!

David Farland

Forrest Wolverton's Accelerator Course

Forrest Wolverton's NLP applied to writing

Forrest Wolverton

Epic Novel Writing Workshop

Do your want to write an epic novel, either a huge fantasy or science fiction book? In this workshop, you'll study some of the best books and films on the topic. Dave will teach how to write epic fantasy and science fiction novels in particular.

David Farland

$990

Epic Novel Writing Workshop - Rafael Hohmann

David Farland

$300

Novel Proposals

In this seminar, learn about novel proposals, how to write them, but also how to strategically use them to get an editor to demand to see your book!

David Farland

$97

Seeing Yourself As a Writer

In this seminar, learn about what you need to do to become a writer and, most importantly, the mentality of being a writer.

David Farland

$97

Advertising As An Author

In this seminar, you'll learn about what it takes to advertise your books on Amazon, Google, Facebook and more.

David Farland

$97

Making the Perfect Cast

In this seminar, learn about how to create a cast where each character perfectly compliments the others.

David Farland

$97

Beginnings, Middles, and Ends

In this seminar, learn about the general components of a story, the purposes of the beginning, middle, and end, and how to use them to create the best story you can.

David Farland

$97

Habits of Highly Effective Writers

In this seminar, learn the secrets writers needs to know to increase your chances of becoming a successful writer.

David Farland

$97

How to Join a Writers Ring

In this seminar, learn about writers rings (not just critique groups) and how they can find success in your chosen genre.

David Farland

$97

How to Sell a Book Big

In this seminar, learn how to know if your book is truly "big" and how to help it reach the New York Times Bestsellers list or eventually become a movie!

David Farland

$97

Bundles

Write Now Bundle

Dave created a series of four workshops to get you started on your writing career immediately and start making money right away as a writer.

Courses: 4 Coaching: 0 Digital Downloads: 0

$69.99

Super Writers' Bundle

Get all of the writing courses you need to kickstart your writing career!

Courses: 25 Coaching: 0 Digital Downloads: 0

3 payments of $197/month

Apex Writers Bundle

If you sign up for the Apex-Writers Bundle, you'll automatically be registered through Apex-Writers.com. There, you'll have access to the Apex community.

Courses: 39 Coaching: 0 Digital Downloads: 0

$239.95/year

David Farland Seminars Series

Courses: 17 Coaching: 0 Digital Downloads: 0

$297