In this class, students have the opportunity to learn how to avoid a "sagging middle" of their novels through creating enough complications that rise logically from the circumstances set up in the beginning chapters, building as the plot progresses, and leading inevitably to the climax and resolution.
Each week of the class will have assignments in reading a model suspense novel, "The Talented Mr. Ripley," by Patricia Highsmith, available free or very cheaply online. Each week students will also write pages of their own novel middles.
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