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 of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize, The Widow’s House, which won the 2018 Mary Higgins Clark Award, and The Night Visitors, which won the 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. For over twenty years, she has taught creative writing at The New School and SUNY New Paltz and offered private classes, book coaching, and editorial services to writers in fiction and memoir. She combines her love of and long experience in reading, writing, and teaching to offer a supportive and constructive framework for writers at every level and stage of the writing process.
Cost is $323.38