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Dear Writer, When I read my student's final Narrative drafts, I am always impressed and overwhelmed. Some move me to tears; others make me laugh right out loud. They express their thoughts so well. All they needed was the right craft to guide them. Everyone has a story to tell of meaning and life. Anyone can learn to write well. To paraphrase Anton Ego in Ratatouille, "Not everyone becomes a great writer, but great writers can come from anywhere." What a loss it would be if no one knew the light and the story inside of you only because you could not craft it into words! I don't need to be a world-renowned writer to help you learn to write well. What I do need is the craft to draw out of you the spark you hold, not accepting mediocre, until reaching desperation almost, you produce your best into written English. I have the craft, right here on these pages; you have the story. Let's connect to bring your story to life. Intrigued? Revolutionize your writing skills by following a proprietary "Action Writing"© course hammered out in the college classroom. Engage personally with a master teacher while writing your own story. Craft the words that fascinate, convince, and inspire your readers. Writing well is one major key to success in the modern world. Anyone can learn to write well. For many, though, finding the right guide makes all the difference. The Writing Conservatory guides you to skilled and effective writing at all levels.
To learn to write well is to write, to be guided in your writing, to re-write, to receive further guidance, and to write it again. | ||||||||
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Why a Personal Narrative? Every writer at The Writing Conservatory begins with a Personal Narrative. Writers of Internet articles - story writers - creative writers and poets - writers entering college - writers of sales copy - business writers - journal writers - report writers - All begin with the Personal Narrative. Why? Effective writers are personal; all effective writers are first personal. [The most effective sales letters in history touch the buyer at a personal level. Stories, of course, must connect the reader with the characters to succeed. An essay for college? Listen, if your college professor forgets he's reading a chemistry essay because he's caught in the grip of your ideas, carried by the action in your words - hey, you've won! A business report? Even business executives gravitate towards the words and ideas that convey personality without even knowing why. | ||||||
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Write What You Know: The first rule of writing is to write what you know. There is nothing any of us know better than our own story. Because we know our own story, we simply write, focusing on what happened, the suspense, who said what, all without noticing the words or any of the "rules" of writing. "The rules" are a great hindrance to writing. Too often, people think that if they don't write by the "rules," their writing is bad. Since they're not sure of the rules, they don't write. But good writing comes from the heart; the purpose of rules is to take good writing, once it is written, and make it great. The rules come last. Story and the meaning it carries come first. Develop the Moment: Once your story is on paper, you now develop the experience into something that will affect the reader. The biggest problem with rough drafts is they are usually boring. But there is no reason for your Narrative to stay boring. Because you know your own story, you will add character description and dialogue with ease. You can picture the setting, and are able to describe it well. It becomes a game to find the best words to convey what you saw and heard and experienced. You find the twist that makes your story interesting. Take Pride in Your Accomplishment: I am always amazed at what happens when my students hand in the final drafts of their Personal Narrative - what happens in them. I may be astonished and moved by the power of their story, but it is they who are astonished and moved when they realize what an awesome story they have written. It is there, when you see that you have written your own story powerfully well, that the best thought of all comes to mind. " I can write well; I am a writer." | |||||
| Your Editor: Hi, my name is Daniel Yordy. I always wanted to write ever since traversing starry-eyed through Middle Earth for the first time at age 12. But my years of schooling did not teach me how to write. I tried but failed. For years I held pen over paper, longing to write, but no words came. Was there no chance? | ||||
Then I walked into my own classroom of four eleventh-grade English students. My assignment: teach them to write. Years later, after my early students had become successful in their careers, partly through writing well, one was asked, "Where did you learn to write like this?" Her answer: "My English teacher, Mr. Yordy, taught me." - I had no idea.
I have taught writing skills to teenagers and young adults for 27 years, now - AND learned to write myself, the hard way, by trial and error, by copying great writers, by paying copy editors to bleed their red pens all over my "precious" words, and by writing it again - and again. It still surprises me to say that I have the craft to guide you towards your writing destiny. This craft, however, found through all the Units at The Writing Conservatory, comes out of the best of current research, hammered out in the classroom. 
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I learned that writing can be fun. Mr. Yordy allowed us to let go of all the rules and to "just write!" as he would say. I enjoy his teaching style. He fine-tunes us down to the wire to make sure we are are well-oiled writing machines, so that squishy muscle I call a brain can get a work out. It's given a challenge every time he gives an assignment. - Zach | |||||
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Develop your own writing skill inside four powerful arenas to become an effective writer. Four Powerful Arenas: What are they? One: Write freely without thought of rules or requirements. Key into that connection between your passion and the ideas percolating in your brain and just write. Two: Copy good writers. Find the best writers in your field and copy them, word for word, until the richness and cadence of English written well fills the reservoirs in your brain from which your words flow. Then, mimic their style through your own pen. Try this and that - until your own voice finds its shape and beat. Three: Revise. With your ideas now in front of you, cut and shape, rearrage and re-write. Every lesson in every Unit at The Writing Conservatory focuses directly on shaping and re-shaping your own words. Four: Hit against the brick wall of a thick-skinned, hard-nosed editor of the writing craft who, though always kind to you, is never kind to any mediocre or half-baked writing escaping your re-write. Groan over all the red marks if you must, but re-write - and re-write it again. | |||||
I hope you noticed no claims of the "big bucks" you can make by joining The Writing Conservatory. Writing well is one craft, rusty saws, old boards, and a dream; making money is an entirely different craft. Both are great crafts to learn, but I suspect that those who claim to teach both are masters of neither. Learn to write well, first. Then, you are no one's dummy when you add to your destiny the craft of making money. Effective writers who catch their readers in the grip of their story, whether writing novels or biology essays or Internet sales pages always stand separate from the crowds. But that's the thing: in today's work world, your writing skill gives you the edge that marks you above the rest. | 
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The Writing Course The Writing Conservatory offers a series of Units that run down three tracks:
College-Entry takes you through various college essays and the research paper and how to wow your college professors with the clarity and intelligence of your writing. The Business Writing Track includes sales copy, article writing, and business letters and how to win clients and motivate staff with your powerful writing skills. All three begin with Unit I: Personal Narrative. Curious? Check it out. Each Unit contains 5 "Sets," each Set includes 5 lessons, or "Blocks," and 1 Lab. Each Block adds another writing skill to your own Paper; each Lab directs you to write or to copy or to re-write. You will send each of your Drafts and some exercises to Your Editor for marking and comments. When it comes back, you re-write it again until it is your best. | |||||
Why The Writing Conservatory?
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The first thing I learned was writing with action. In high school, all the teachers assumed everyone knew how to write essays, but this person was bad at writing essays. Essays were the lowest grades I would get, but I would still try. In Mr. Yordy's class, I learned why my writing was horrible. He introduced us to action writing and boy, that made a change. My essays are better. Now I write. - Cynthia
I learned to better express myself in writing, so that the way I see things or describe scenes in my mind are clearer on the page. Taking this course also helped me to better understand other people's writing and how to incorporate different styles and methods into my own including ways of describing characters and lots of action and dialogue. - Jo | ||||
The Offer Unit I: Personal Narrative - Introductory Price: $75. For this modest sum you receive three specific things:
The Writing Conservatory's unique approach allows us to provide you with personal and effective guidance towards becoming a great writer - efficiently. | |||||
Seize the moment! Look down a clear path. You love - you yearn to write. Writing well is the same as playing the piano (even fishing) well. Practice under the watchful eye of a teacher of writing until your words create melodies, until they capture the memories of your life.
Writing is fun! I love playing around with words, and taking this writing course has made me more adept at something I already enjoyed immensely. The English language is an amazing, vibrant, living thing. I want to harness its awesomeness and understand the way it works its magic. - Matthew | 
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Order Now - Unit I: The Personal Narrative * Our Guarantee: Start immediately on your own Personal Narrative. Meanwhile, take up to 60 days to see if The Writing Conservatory works for you. If you ask for your money back before the 60 days are finished - for any reason - we will refund it cheerfully. The documents and comments already received are yours to keep. | |||||
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Don't wait a moment longer, follow this link to: I have never had a student who wasn't unique and fascinating. Over 27 years, I have never known one who did not have the potential, at the very least, for greatness. I am looking forward to meeting you as well through your own Personal Narrative. Thank you so much, Your Editor P.S. I have watched it happen, over and over. Young men and women who didn't think they could write well look at the final draft of their Personal Narrative. Something shifts on the inside of them, never to revert back again. "I can write well; I am a writer!" | |||||
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