Description
Course Outline
The course is run completely online. Participants are limited to 10 pax and is ideally suited to someone who has an idea for their novel; who may have started or written some chapters or ideas down already.
You will receive access to ten downloadable video lectures on the topics set out below:
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The Beginning: Where do I start?
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Do I need a Plot? Story Form and Structure
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Characters, or: Do you really need me?
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Look Who’s Talking: Point of View and Unreliable Narrators
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Setting, Place and Time
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Dialogue: How we speak vs How we read
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Going into Battle: How Conflict and the Journey work in Fiction
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Do novelists care about Short Stories and Poetry?
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Killing your Darlings: Editing and Revising
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And Now to Market! Query letters; Agents; and Getting Published
You will also have the chance to share a section of your writing every week for peer critique. I will also schedule a private Zoom call with you to go over a selected piece of writing. At the end of the course, I will provide you with a written report on my thoughts on your MS and my view on your next best steps.
We will have a group weekly zoom call to discuss our work and generally cheer each other on.
By using this course, you will have the tools, resources, and support systems in place at the end of it to finish your novel (if you haven’t done so already!) and start submitting to agents!