1/2-Day Virtual Teen Writing Workshops

Take 1 workshop or as many as you want - choosing whichever piques your interest!

Each workshop is 4 hours long (with breaks to write)
Come with a story you’ve already written and want to improve, or with that blank page just waiting to be filled!
50 euros ($57) per workshop.

Workshops will be morning for U.S. participants, so afternoon for Europe. The schedule will be set once we know all participants’ time zones!

FOR TEENS

For ages 13-18. 12-year-olds may apply if they are avid readers/writers.

25 June – The Hero’s Journey

26 June – Twisted Tales

9 July – Spellbinding Settings

10 July – Dynamic Dialogue

16 July – Creating Credible Characters

17 July – World Building 101

HOW
To sign up, write me at: amy@amyplumbooks.com with the following information:

Participant’s name
Birthday (age at time of workshop)
City (for time zone)
Participant’s interest in writing (what they have done, and what they hope to do)

Hope to see you this summer in Paris…virtually!

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“Where’s the next book?” An answer.

Posted on January 10, 2020

The last three years have been…interesting. I wrote one book – this time for adults. (Psychological thriller/horror set in Siberia.) It didn’t sell. I rewrote it to be YA…with a boy as main character. My agent suggested it would be better with a girl. I rewrote it again with a girl main character. We tried to sell it…and failed.

I wrote a full-length film with a friend – a rom com. It was our first screenplay, so we knew it was basically just practice, and that’s what it turned out to be. A really fun idea, but not terribly well executed.

I wrote a short film called “Kewpid and Psych-ee” for an upcoming TV series “WHATEVER AFTER” which was selected for and screened at the Marseille Web Fest (among others).

I wrote a middle-grade comedy genie book, which I sent to my agent last year, and which she loved but says needs a bit more work. (She’s right.)

Then I ghost-wrote a upper middle-grade book, which I just finished before Christmas.

In between time, to pay the rent, I translated a book from French to English, taught teen writing workshops in Paris, and did all sorts of other little projects for TV and books, finally taking a 3-day per week job writing TV commercials in English for a big ad agency located a block from my house. I chose it so I could come home to walk Obi, fix the kids lunch on Wednesdays (1/2 day school in France), and take the occasional lunchtime nap.

I’m telling you all of this to answer your question: Where’s the next book? The answer: it’s coming! I’m not sure what form it will take, but being a writer is not an easy job when you are supporting a family smack dab in the center of Paris. The important thing is that I am still writing. And there is definitely much more to come.

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