Description
Instructor: Chin-Sun Lee
Genre: Fiction
Number of Sessions: 1
Meets: 1-4 PM CT
Dates: Sat. , Dec. 7, 2024
Where: NOCCA Foundation
Cost: $75 / Early Bird until Nov. 15: $67
You have a compelling premise and a few chapters of something that feels like a novel—but you’re stuck on how to move forward. Writing a novel is both daunting and thrilling; it requires not only a vision but commitment, stamina, and patience. It’s about exploring the unknown, persevering through doubt toward discovery and complexity.
In this workshop, we’ll discuss key world-building strategies to propel your early pages forward, including: identifying your main themes and characters; evaluating structure, pacing, and tone; maintaining suspense while avoiding plot spinouts; outlining vs. pantsing; allowing for surprises; and pushing past the “middle muddle.” We’ll also review relevant novel excerpts and do a generative plotting exercise during this session.
Participants should have at least 30 pages of a novel-in-progress, a loose idea of its driving premise, and a willingness to discuss the work in class. Please come with your questions and dilemmas—the purpose of this workshop is to help resolve them!
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