Together we have written and published 18 books, plus 3 audio books. Happily married for over 17 years, we're passionate about writing, story telling, and guiding authors to achieve your dreams. We're award-winning, best-selling novelists, who have worked with over 100 authors to help them get their books written and published. This course is offered by Beth and Ezra Barany, writing teachers and novelists.
Once you have completed this exercise, and all the ones before, you'll have a good sense of your entire story, and can sit down to write your novel with excitement and confidence. We help you create an organic outline from all the notes and thinking that have gone before and also provide tips on a more linear approach to plotting your story. Week 4: Scene-by-Scene Outline & Plotting We guide you through the final preparation step of building your story scene-by-scene. We help you design a plot that will keep readers at the edge of their seats turning pages deep into the night. Plot comes from characters, from knowing your story world, and from asking some good questions. Week 3: Story Plot & World Building We help you design the story's main plot points and get to know the world of your story better, in other words, world building. We also have more character questions to share with you and special exercises to help you get to know your characters so you can bring them to life when you write your novel. Great stories start with great characters that you love! We expand on the "10 Questions to Ask Your Characters" tip sheet (PDF) that you got when you signed up for the course. Week 2: Get to Know Your Main Characters We cover getting to know your main characters. We also touch on the story's theme and genre to help you have a better idea of the focus of your story and also your audience's expectations. Next we cover the 5-6 paragraph story synopsis that can form the basis of a synopsis agents and editors request. Week 1: Elevator Pitch & Short Synopsis We help you write the 1-2 paragraph story blurb, also know as the elevator pitch, that you can later use in a query letter. Of course, some of you will spend less and some may spend more time on this course. This course will help you dream up exciting ways to torture, I mean challenge, your characters all the way to the resolution of the story.Ī 30-day course, structured so you can do it at your own pace.Īll told, if you follow the curriculum, you will probably spend 4–10 hours over the month to follow through on the assignments and exercises, all designed to help you plan your novel.
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- You have never written a novel, and have always wanted to, and still feel lost on how to go from brilliant idea to The End, then you will be stretched in new and different ways.Read short lessons, watch some video or listen to the lessons, then write - put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard and actually do some thinking of your story on the page. Words will pile up, along with ideas, story questions, and scenes. What can you expect: You'll put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard and write while you think, in specific ways, with specific focuses. - Step into a sense of satisfaction and creative accomplishment.1st you can start writing it alongside the crowd. We know, because we’ve done it, multiple times!ģ0-Day Writing Challenge, we will help you think and write through the steps to create your novel – from character development to plot structure to story themes and world building - so that you can start NaNoWriMo prepared.įor: Experienced writers or ambitious writers who want to plan their novel in an organic or step-by-step way, so that on Nov. You can plan your novel in a way that fits into your life. That's why this course is designed for the writer with a life.