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  • 12 Weeks to a First Draft starts on 2/2

     
    We’ll employ Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird as a structural model upon which to base our own books, though keep in mind that Lee’s structure is simply one possibility. We’ll also take examples from more contemporary novels such as Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge.

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    Work with a published novelist and your peers to write and revise 200 pages of your novel manuscript. In this critique based workshop, there are no lectures, reading assignments or exercises. Instead, you will focus on writing tips and reminders throughout. You should be prepared to submit 10,000 words (approximately 40 manuscript pages) and a short synopsis of your book (500 to 750 words maximum) on the course start date.

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