April 2025 at the Academe
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
There’s nothing as bad – and good – as tension and conflict in your books. We need conflict and tension to keep our readers turning those pages, but it’s not as easy to write as we might think.
Improving conflict and tension is crucial, so why not take this month to work on this particular part of your craft?
If you want to:
- Learn about the different types of tension and conflict
- Find historical ways to bring conflict and tension into your stories
- Discover how tension and conflict can deepen character development and propel your story forward
- Get your hands on tried and tested templates that a USAT author uses with every book
- Push yourself to work on a scene on a line level and gain feedback
- Write the most stressful scene of your life…
…this is the course for you.
Registration closes April 11, 2025
The most popular assumption as to the source of the income of gentlemen, men of no profession who had no need to sully their hands with work or trade to make or keep their fortunes, is that they simply inherited their money and then passed that money on to the next generation.
Whilst many titled gentlemen and members of the landed gentry did inherit their fortunes, there was far more to keeping those fortunes and sometimes having to remake fortunes lost by imprudent ancestors or wastrel heirs, than is ever spoken of in most Regency fiction. Fortunes were seldom stagnant. Maintaining estates, appearances, and the quality of life to which one had become accustomed was no mean feat, especially when one chose to do so without appearing to work at all.
This class will cover the various ways the wealthy and / or titled generated income from tenant rents, to agricultural production, to investments, to resource mining, to annuities, to a variety of other methods—some acceptable by our standards and some decidedly unacceptable by our standards.
In addition, the class will cover the methods by which the wealthy and/or titled lost their fortunes from gambling, to poor investments, to financial scandals, to political missteps, and legal entanglements.
When writing the financial status, rise and/or downfall of a character or of an entire family it is hoped this class will provide attendees with very real scenarios far more unique and dramatic than many of those the wealthy experience today.
Registration closes April 11, 2025
