Start Your Novel
Instructor: Stacia Ann (Stacia Ann)Includes a free two month upgraded membership! Details
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Duration: Four Weeks
Class Size: 7 Students
Seats Left: 7
You will learn the techniques for beginning a novel through reading sample chapters from the classic novel "The Great Gatsby," recognized as a great 20th novel, and available free online. This novel will be used as a model in all of the novel writing courses.
In addition, students will participate in weekly writing exercises toward the completion of their novel chapters.
Week 1: Getting ideas, difference between "short story scope" ideas and "novel scope ideas," deciding protagonist/main character and major conflict, the genre of novel, and developing your idea into an outline
Read: outline of "Great Gatsby"
Write: Your novel idea and novel outline
Week 2: Where to begin? Deciding the correct place in the story events to open your novel. Introducing the main characters, the narrator, the story "universe." Introducing the inciting event that will "kick start" the conflict in the story.
Read: The first chapter of "The Great Gatsby"
Write: Your Chapter 1/first pages of your novel
Week 3: Further developing the story conflict/universe. Introducing symbols, metaphors, and themes.
Read: chapter 2 of "The Great Gatsby"
Write: chapter 2 of your novel
Week 4: Building and introducing new complications. The call to action, in which the protagonist/main character commits to the story "journey."
Read chapter 3 of "The Great Gatsby"
Write: chapter 3/next pages of your novel
Instructor: Stacia Ann
About The Instructor:
Stacia Ann is an Linguistics Lecturer and Writing Instructor at the University of California. She has a doctorate of Education, Master's of Art in English/TESOL. This instructor has taught writing classes for over ten years. She also teaches academic writing and English as a Second Language at the University of the Pacific. A published author including works of short fiction and academic nonfiction including contest winning stories.