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Summer School: New Year, New Novel

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Penni Russon

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EMERGING, ESTABLISHED

Summary:

2017 is in the bin, and your 2018 resolution is to finish what you start. New year? New novel! Don’t like planning? This class is for you. Love planning? This class is for you.

Penni Russon

Details

We’ll talk about how to follow your curiosity, and stay engaged with the writing moment, within a supportive structure. You’ll walk out with a deadline, a timeline to meet it, and a way in to the heart of your novel.

You will learn

  • About narrative design
  • techniques for time management for writers
  • planning for pantsers and pantsing for planners
  • about writing through difficulty
  • how to hold a whole novel in your head.

About Penni Russon

Penni Russon is an award-winning writer for young people, fascinated by the way that language, the body, philosophy, politics and culture operate in those intense final years of adolescence. She combines writing with study, teaching, parenting and a day job in youth mental health. Her novel, 'The Endsister', will be published in March 2018.

Read more about our Summer School workshops:

Summer School: Writing for the Education Market, 12 January
Summer School: The Art of Criticism – Giving and Receiving Feedback, 13 January
Summer School: Short Story, 14 January
Summer School: Crime, 15 January
Summer School: Writing Picture Books, 16 January
Summer School: Going Indie – Successful Self-Publishing, 17 January
Summer School: Ekphrasis – The Art of Writing from Art, 18 January
Summer School: Mastering the Personal Essay, 20 January
Summer School: Editing Your Novel, 21 January
Summer School: Memorable Romance Characters, 22 January
Summer School: Writing Conflict in Literary Fiction, 23 January
Summer School: World Building, 24 January
Summer School: Pitching Memoir and Non-Fiction, 25 January

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Registration for this event ended on 18 January 2018 - 4:00
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