Launching Your Novel with Carol Goodman (6-Week Course 6/18-7/23)

This six-week summer class (June 18, June 25, July 2, July 9, July 16, July 23) aims to help you launch the novel you’ve always meant to write.  We will begin with setting intentions, overcoming obstacles, and shaping the best habits to carry you through a long project.  We’ll consider the pros and cons of plotting versus pantsing and form strategies for both.  Through examples and exercises we will begin the work of establishing character, conflict, and setting through lively dialogue and active scenes, creating an inciting incident that will launch the action of your novel and establish internal and external conflicts, and assembling a cast of supporting characters.  By the end of the six weeks, you will have the first few chapters, a synopsis, and strategies for moving forward.

Bio

Carol Goodman is the New York Times Bestselling author of twenty-six novels, including The Lake of Dead Languages, The Seduction…