I'm Randy Ingermanson, publisher of the Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine, the world's largest electronic newsletter on how to write fiction. I'm known around the world as "the Snowflake Guy" in honor of my "Snowflake method" of designing a novel.

One of the writers I've learned the most from over the years has been my friend and former coauthor, John Olson. John thinks differently than I do about fiction, and I'm glad. I believe John's made me a better writer.

In September of 2008, John put together a number of his best ideas about writing fiction in a lecture series, "Writing in the Shadows," which he taught at a major writing conference. I sat through the whole thing thinking, "Yeah, that's right. Why did I never think of it that way?"

Now John and I have bundled up his lecture into a downloadable product that you can play in your web browser. You see the text of his PowerPoint slides. You hear his voice. It's like having John in your computer, ready to teach you any time.

Here are a few of the things you'll learn in "Writing in the Shadows:"

• The #1 way to attract an editor's attention
• Why too much information is worse than too little
• Using the "iceberg effect" to heighten realism and depth
• Pacemakers and breakers -- 9 ways to avoid "driver fatigue"
• Why every action should NOT have an equal and opposite reaction
• Using "word shadows" to deliver a powerful emotional experience
• The five drivers that keep your readers turning the pages
• Heightening the "central tension" of your scenes
• Manipulating the reader's experience of time

You can get Writing In The Shadows as an electronic download right now. It's just under 20 MB, which should download in well under a minute on a cable modem or a fast DSL line. It will take substantially longer on a dialup connection. There is no CD to be shipped, which means you don't have to wait. You can get it RIGHT NOW.

What's the price? Writing In The Shadows is only $33. That's a terrific deal for 2 hours and 40 minutes of instruction that you can listen to over and over again. You don't have to take time off work and travel somewhere and pay conference fees to listen to John speak. You can get him right now on your computer.

When you buy Writing In The Shadows, my system will take you immediately to the download page (if Writing In The Shadows is the only thing in your shopping cart). My system will also email you the link to the download page, in case you're buying more than one thing. Please save that email, so you can get back to the download page if your computer crashes and you need to download Writing In The Shadows again.

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