Rubart Writing Academy — Complete Course

• You feel stuck, you've been at this for years but are floundering and need direction
• You want to create unique stories that will grab the hearts of agents, editors, and readers
• You want to learn the marketing side of the publishing world in a way that's doable
• You want to know who you are at your core, the theme of your life, and how to apply it to your stories
• You want to figure out how to stay motivated and encouraged

If you answered yes to any of these questions, we can help!

- Imagine waking up every day, knowing exactly what you need to rocket your career forward

- Imagine pitching editors and agents at a conference with full confidence

- Imagine knowing precisely how to market yourself with ease (even if you're an introvert!)

This is why we're thrilled to bring you the online version of The Rubart Writing Academy.

*The in-person version of The Rubart Writing Academy is a four day event held three times a year.

This 8+ Hour Long Video Course Will Teach You...

How to discover who you are at your core, and how it applies to every aspect of your writing career.

Before we can write stories that resonate with people, we need to first understand ourselves at a core level. You can write flawless prose with perfect sentence structure, and a perfect plot. But without heart? Without writing from the deepest parts of yourself? Without knowing who you truly are? You won't write the stories you were meant to.

In this section, we delve deep into who you are at your core. We give you tools to discover who you are — it isn't easy, and it's sometimes painful. But the fruit of that pain? Stories that change lives.

What is Marketing and Branding?

Simply put: Getting yourself noticed AND remembered in a noisy world.

Marketing and Branding is probably the least loved pillar of being a successful novelist, but it's the second most critical. (The first of course is to write a killer story.)

But, it doesn't have to be painful.

I kid you not! Will it take work? Yes. Will it make you stretch in areas you didn't think you could stretch in? Absolutely. But the rewards are rich.

In this 90-minute course, we build off the foundation we discovered in the Identity session and apply it to everything you do.

You'll learn:

• What a brand is, and why discovering your own brand is critical for your career's success
• What great branding does
• Example of branding masters, and how you can copy them
• Why some websites fly and some sites die
• How to use the power of Story in your marketing and branding
• How to shock Broca, and why that ability is the most powerful marketing tool you'll ever learn
• Why Content is King, Dictator and Supreme Commander of the Universe, and how to use it every time you pick up your laptop
• Foundational Marketing principles you can't afford to ignore

PLUS, a bonus Q & A session where Jim answers the marketing and branding questions he gets asked most frequently.

You likely realize you need to take full advantage of the power of social media.

The problem is:

• Where do you start?
• What do you say?
• How do you promote yourself (without looking sales-ey?)
• Where is time wasted and where is it well spent?

This session gives specific details on how you can find, reach, and talk to your audience on social media, and build a following of readers, even before you have a book published.

We'll go through each of these platforms in detail, discussing how you build an audience using these platforms, and how to build your email list with them as well.

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Youtube
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Goodreads
• Reddit

Plus, we'll discuss what platforms you should use, and WHY you should use them. By the end of this course, you'll know which social media platform to spend your energy on and which to let go.

All the knowledge in the world about Craft, Marketing & Branding, and Business will be worthless to you if you stop. And most people do.

Publishing is a tough road, and the shoulders of that road are littered with broken dreams.

Why?

Because those writers gave up.

I'd love to tell you I pressed on in the early days without ever getting discouraged. That would be a lie. I came centimeters from giving up multiple times.

Most people think Craft, or Marketing/Branding, or the understanding the Business side of publishing is the key component to success on this journey. So that's where they spend the majority of their time. But the most critical piece of publishing is staying in the game.

Winston Churchill once famously gave a speech that was only five words long, "Never, never, never give up." But it changed a nation.

In this 75 minute session we use far more than five words, but we want the result to be the same. That when you finish this course, you'll be determined to follow your dream beyond the ends of the earth, and never let the whispers to give up take you away from it.

We'll cover:

• The key questions you must ask yourself to stay motivated and inspired
• Perseverance in the face of adversity
• The hand of Providence
• The George Costanza Principle (and how to apply it to your life)
• What we can learn from, Defending Your Life
• What holding onto your dream loosely looks like, how to do it, and why it's critical
• Why fear is your friend (if you use it correctly)
• A key lesson for staying motivated from the movie, The Legend of Beggar Vance
• A final lesson from one of Jim's favorite movies, The Matrix

PLUS, a bonus Q & A session where Jim answers the questions he's most frequently asked about staying motivated.

Are you ready to learn a massive amount about the publishing journey? About yourself? About your craft? About business?

If so, let's do this!

As with all of our courses, there is NO RISK! You can try the Complete Course 100% risk-free — if you aren't absolutely thrilled with this course, you have 30 days to return it for a full refund. That's how strongly we believe in this material.