FICTION: Characters are the most important part of any story. Join us Saturday for “Developing Authentic and Compelling Characters in Fiction” with John Pipkin!
Just in time for National Novel Writing Month! Whether you’re thinking about writing a novel or mired in the middle of your work in progress, this is the class for you. The intensive course of study reviews Christopher Vogler’s The Hero’s Journey‘s three-act structure and Debra Dixon’s Goal, Motivation, and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction, and breaks these concepts down into a manageable, 30-day writing regimen, with particular emphasis on those all-important first five pages and middle-of-the-story conflict.
The Book in a Month Tool Kit includes:
PowerPoint Videos of Class Instruction
Personal Goal Tracker Calendar
Character Worksheets
Character Goal, Motivation & Conflict Sheets
Story Board Worksheets
Time Tracker Worksheets
Instructor Kit Frazier will provide daily encouragement to students and host Friday online brainstorming chats. Students will also have the opportunity to share work in small online groups. Bonus! Students who complete their novel by November 30 will receive a discount on an entry in the 2010 Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest.The Manuscript Contest has nine categories, and each category winner receives a complimentary consultation with an agent at the 2010 Writers’ League of Texas Agents Conference on June 26.
