A novel is a world into which a reader disappears for hours or days at a time, navigating through time and space and human psychology. We live with the characters, be they a glamorous bootlegger living the high life, or a mixed up teenager on hiatus from prep school, or a neurotic woman trying to lose weight and land a man. Writing a novel is a long haul mdash a steep climb over hundreds of pages that must work as a unified and engrossing whole. Here you will learn the specialized techniques of novel writing and how to market your work. If you rsquo re up for the challenge, we rsquo ll show you how to write a novel to remember.

After level i, students have a choice of fiction ii/i focusing on short stories , or novel ii/i focusing on novels. If you are working on ldquo genre rdquo fiction, you may take either a fiction /novel course or one of our genre courses: science fiction amp fantasy. If you are working on a ya novel, you may take a fiction /novel or ldquo genre rdquo course, or you may take a children rsquo s book course, where the full spectrum of children rsquo s books will be covered. A good novelist offers the reader a story in which events and actions have logical but unpredictable consequences, and which will eventually lead to a satisfying conclusion, but which also give the reader some surprises along the way. A novelist needs motivation to write, and many published novelists write not only to earn money but also because they have something to say. You may wish to bring a specific situation or issue to the attention of your readers, or to put your own opinions on record, or to expose injustice.

Or maybe you hope to write good stories which have no particular message for the world, but which will give their readers satisfaction and pleasure. Almost all published novels tell some kind of story, and most of them offer the reader a conclusion which is satisfying in some way, even if it is not hopeful, happy or particularly neat. If you wish to become a published novelist, you should not end a novel in such a way that the reader is going to wonder if you simply ran out of things to say, or did not know how to round everything off.

The work done during this course, and the knowledge and understanding which you gain from your tutor, will set you on the right road to being a successful writer plotting and dialogue, making your characters believable, understanding narrative, all of these are areas of writing capable of being improved by practice and skilled teaching. If you want to write fiction which involves romantic or relationship issues, rather than crime or thriller or literary fiction, the romantic fiction course will probably be best for you. If you have finished the course before completing your novel, and you wish to continue working with your tutor, you can buy 'extensions' to the course which allow you to continue by submitting additional chapters to your tutor. Extensions can be purchased to cover either 3 or 6 chapters, and the process can be continued until your novel is finished. When is an idea a plot and when not? do novels need plots? structure openings, turning points and endings.

You are about to embark on an exciting, rewarding and challenging adventure. Everyone says that they want to write a novel, but only a tiny fraction of folks have the drive, talent and discipline to accomplish it. You’ll take an important step in that direction by enrolling in this sequence of novel writing classes, which will teach you essential fiction writing skills as well as helping you get your book finished. In this novel writing class, youll learn the forms of realistic fiction and how to adapt them to a novel.

Youll explore techniques like dramatic scene, character sketches, dialogue and scene by scene constructionthe building blocks of all novels. The goal of the novel writing class is to introduce these techniques and get you started on your novel in the process. The great adventure is about to begin! in addition to focusing on these techniques, we will discuss larger, structural issues, how to put all of these elements together into a dramatic and compelling chapter.