Story Development Fall 2016

This hybrid course of short videos and live video conferencing Q & As will develop your clear plan for a powerful book.

Short, clear videos make up four modules:

1) Getting started and introduction to premise

2) Premise, Character and Logline

3) The Seven Steps

4) Step Outline.

Each module comes with a workbook and a creative assignment that develops your book’s structure.

Write it in November. By November, you will have a scene-by-scene outline and an understanding of scene that will launch you into writing--either with NaNoWriMo or at your own pace.

Live online weekly Q & As with Angie. Get all your questions answered, individual support and insight into the framework you are mastering. These sessions are always recorded and posted, and questions can be submitted ahead of time if you can’t attend. The quarter continues through mid-November, so you can ask the questions that come up as you write. We’ll meet in early December to celebrate the completion of your November goals, whether that’s to write an entire draft or a solid opening or something else. This class will also serve you well in doing a deep revision of a story.

“Angie has a gift in guiding a story, getting all those wayward lambs of ideas back to the flock of the overall trajectory of theme. This class is great for shaping a diffuse idea into a real story, using all the main 'seven' steps (archetypal story points) to anchor plot into place. Giving up nothing creatively, gaining everything (a real working outline). A process that could take years, fit into eight painless weeks.” Christine O’Brien

Fall:  SATURDAYS at 10AM PST - Sept. 10 - Nov. 19; NO CLASS Oct. 15

Investment: $325