Creative Writing Course: Novel Planning

There are many different approaches to plotting a novel, some writers find success by broad stroke planning with flexibility and revisions and others benefit from intricate planning before a word is written.

Regardless of your chosen strategy, the end goal is always the same: to produce an organized manuscript with a logical beginning, middle, and end that's exciting and engaging to your audience.

In this novel planning course, you’ll learn the anatomy of story structure, how to develop a novel from idea to plot outline, as well as how to construct a project plan for your novel. Upon completion, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of character development, story structure, and the resources to outline your next engaging, reader-magnet novel. Take out some of the mystery of getting started and join our novel planning course and begin to sketch out your narrative!

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this novel writing course, you will have enhanced your career prospects by :

• Know how to develop a compelling, engaging heroic character, and a worthy supporting cast.

• Understand what makes your characters tick, and therefore how to plan their story actions.

• Understand how to use motivation and backstory to set up suspenseful, must-read turning points.

• Understand story structure, and how to use it to develop plot.

• Know how to use character development and story structure to draft your novel outline.

• Learn how to use project planning methods to help construct a novel writing schedule that can help with NaNoWriMo – and beyond.