Fall 2025 Workshops
Our unique approach transforms good drafts into great novels
These events are free for members and $25 per attendance otherwise
Tue, Nov 25, 2025 - 4pm Pacific; 7pm Eastern:
Revealing Your Book's Unique Value, and Weaving It into Every Page
Like it or not, readers are customers who have to be satisfied. The question to ask: why would a reader
pick your book over another? Or, what makes your novel special? There's no easy answer. It's also
complicated, in part because many writers shy away from marketing.
This workshop offers a proven framework to help with your answer. The first part is genre, the reason
most books are bought. We'll go over defining yours and fulfilling its promise through your story. Next
comes character; we'll cover how to establish a necessary resonance between yours and likely readers.
Finally, we uncover the spice you and your story must offer to make it stand out. Then, we show how to
weave this value into every chapter.
After walking you through this framework, we'll go over successful examples and talk through your
project if you want.
Sat, Dec 13, 2025 - 10am Pacific; 1pm Eastern:
Maintaining Narrative Momentum Chapter by Chapter
One hard choice novelists face is what to put in each chapter. You have two somewhat opposed goals: to
make it satisfying, yet leave readers wanting more. Meanwhile, each chapter has to tie into what
happened before and what comes next while leaving space for your story's ongoing arc.
Our way to resolve this issue concentrates on spreading your story evenly, so each chapter has just
enough material and no more. Balancing this equation requires knowing your story and then separating its
chapters in the right places. Whether you use post-its, index cards or a spreadsheet, this workshop
shows you how to think about your story, so you can extract and organize the right elements.
You can use this technique prospectively to plan your novel, retrospectively to guide revisions and any
time in between. Best of all, it adapts to your novel to accommodate changes. After all, you never know
when inspiration may strike.
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TO DO LIST:
Add tasks to your sortable list, then revel in checking them off.
SCRATCHPAD:
Cache your gems as they fall in this always accessible place.
PRIVATE JOURNAL:
Reflect on your process — good, bad and ugly — in your dated diary.
TRACKING:
Measure your progress with key writing metrics, automatically,
TO DO LIST:
Add tasks to your sortable list, then revel in checking them off.
SCRATCHPAD:
Cache your gems as they fall in this always accessible place.
PRIVATE JOURNAL:
Reflect on your process — good, bad and ugly — in your dated diary.
TRACKING:
Measure your progress with key writing metrics, automatically,
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