Happy New Year to Everyone! I hope this coming new year brings you what you want. It’s a long and interesting journey, no doubt. Perhaps, you are looking to work on your novel? Perhaps, you have been working on one for years and you want to get some guided help through a course? Maybe, you [...]
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Novelists! Classes start Monday at Yukon College Leave a comment
Writing Classes at Yukon College–Get Your Novels Out 1 comment
Hey, Novelists! For some of you Nanowrimo was a great experience–but what next?? Or some of you have an old novel kicking around in your closet. Dust it off, get it ready. I’m teaching two courses at Yukon College in the Winter, both of them are Fiction Writing Workshops. You can read more about them [...]
Write or Die: a new writing tool 1 comment
Or new to me. I was threatened by a fellow NaNoWriMo writer, and she sent me this link to help me fight procrastination. As you know, nearly every student of mine is ahead of me in word count—not that it MATTERS!–but it just looks soooo sooo bad. Welcome to Write or Die, the website. Below [...]
Novelists in the Yukon Leave a comment
Joanna Lilley has written a great article about the novelists in my two classes writing with Nanowrimo. I know there are more Whitehorse participants out there outside my classes too! More power to all the novelists writing!! Nebula of Novelists Take the Nanowrimo Challenge
Twenty Three Novels By Yukoners Being Written in November (at least!) Leave a comment
Yep, twenty three novels. Hard to imagine twenty three people all writing novels at the same moment, but that’s the glory of NaNoWriMo. You jump in and you have thousands of words when you get out. I have two classes right now who are participating in this month-long event: 14 in a novel-writing class, 8 [...]
World Building: Novel writing for SciFi/Fantasy Writers begins soon Leave a comment
The novel writing course for Fantasy and Science Fiction writers will begin on Tuesday, Sept 23. Come join us this year to learn to write novels. If you are part way working on one, join us anyway. (If you have a draft completed of your novel, you might want to wait till January to start [...]
CRWR 244: Intro to Novel Writing begins Monday 1 comment
Take the Plunge! “I just need a kick in the pants!” —You might have said that about writing a novel. You have one in you, but you never had the time or the direction to push it out. Now you do. If you’re thinking about signing up for the Novel Writing course–then sign up soon! [...]
The First Draft is the Hardest, or my reasons for using NaNoWriMo 2 comments
Novel Writing Course Texts for Fall 2008 Leave a comment
In case you were wondering what we were reading for the Novel Writing course, here are a list of texts. We have two “How to Write” books: Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty (to be used during the NaNoWriMo experience) and one novel: Jurassic Park by Michael [...]
New Course at Yukon College in Novel Writing Leave a comment
Check out the new course I’m teaching at Yukon College for the Fall and Spring. If you’ve wanted to write a novel but haven’t put a first draft together then come in the Fall to write with us–we’ll be hooking up with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) which collects thousands of people online who are [...]
