| About
the course & workshops
A huge part of novel-writing isn’t
your writing style – it’s building a plot
that keeps the tension and feels convincing, developing
complex characters, organising scenes, planning your
world, inventing places and random extras, developing
subplots, and working out how the whole jigsaw fits
together. That’s what these classes cover.
The courses and workshops are based
on process-learning: this means you try out the ideas
in class, so they become part of your repertoire.
In practice, it's enormous fun. It uses
games, activities, discussions – even some hasty
collages & cutting out. In the classes, we invent
characters, create new plots, develop them, write snippets;
it's about developing your understanding and trying
out new ideas. It also draws out your own expertise.
We don't use any formula-for-novels
and the classes are not how to write prose. They're
on the different elements of building a novel: 
premise
characters
place and time
plot layering
bridging tension
sub-plots
detail
symbols
themes
synopses & blurbs
world-building
opening scenes
dénouements
The methodology is drawn from EFL, which
leads the industry for language-learning methodologies.
The course-content is based on Writing the Breakout
Novel, The Artist's Way, and my own experience
as a writer, writing coach, and teacher.
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