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Novel Writing November Session #1

Sat, Nov 01

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Lakeland

"Writing for the Long Haul" by Jamie Beckett

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Novel Writing November Session #1
Novel Writing November Session #1

Time & Location

Nov 01, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Lakeland, 213 E Bay St, Lakeland, FL 33801, USA

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About the event

Join us for our first workshop session as local author, Jamie Beckett, shares how he's made a real lifetime career out of writing and how you can too!


Jamie refers to himself as a blue-collar writer. No awards, no million sellers, no movie adaptations, but he has published every week for more than 30 years. That’s a career.


Like so many writers, Beckett’s initial dream was to write the Great American Novel. Or at least a best seller. While in pursuit of that goal he discovered something far more valuable: contentment.


He’s found success writing a weekly column for more than 15 years for General Aviation News, a national periodical published out of Washington state. During that time he’s also self-published several fictional titles as short form novelettes and one full length novel.


Fiction has been rewarding in its way, but it is non-fiction writing has paid the bills for…


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