The 2019 annual Writers Digest Novel Writing Workshop will be held OCTOBER 24-27, 2019, at the Pasadena (CA) Westin Hotel.
• Like most complex tasks, writing a novel that works—those two words being key, because anybody can cobble together 400 pages that don’t—comes with criteria that imbue efficacy and excellence, and there are dozens of them to consider. They are sometimes regarded as standards or best practices, rather than specific targets that enrich story development.- How to vet the writing conversation and recognize what works for you.
- How to make your writing process—any writing process—more efficient.
- The rarely plumbed depths of the story conception stage, where story ideas must become viable, fully-wired premises.
- The essential nature of scenes, and the criteria that make them work.
- The truth about story structure, which is more an issue of flow and context than simply advancing plot.
- Criteria that apply to SEVENTEEN SPECIFIC AREAS of developing and executing a novel will be explored… beginning with the story idea itself, and then through the vast complexities of assembling an emotionally-resonant dramatic arc.
Who this session is for:
- Beginning novelists looking to advance their story intuition.
- Professional novelists who’ve hit a wall or need a reboot.
- Novelists in any genre seeking to up their game.
- Writers seeking to better understand “the sum of the parts” of story.
This information empowers a higher level of narrative power and an earlier arrival at a “final” draft that leaves nothing untended on the table.
This is the stuff you wish you’d have know when you started out, and just possibly have yet to fully encounter. It is the stuff experienced professionals understand and execute, often as a matter of instinct, yet rarely talk about at this level of accessibility and clarity.
They want you to think that all you have to do is just write. But there is orders of magnitude more specificity to it than that.
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