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Novelists! Classes start Monday at Yukon College   Leave a comment

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 [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]

Posted September 3, 2008 by jstueart in Novel Writing Class

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ENGL 205: Literary Representations of the Natural World   2 comments

Hey Folks, Andrew Richardson’s teaching a Literature course at Yukon College this semester and it sounds great. Here’s his description, with another fine photo from Amanda Graham. If you’re at all interested in writing about the natural world or enjoy books about the natural world, this class could be just what you need to introduce [...]

Posted August 28, 2008 by jstueart in Mishmash

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The First Draft is the Hardest, or my reasons for using NaNoWriMo   2 comments

Hey Potential Participants of Introduction to Novel Writing, We all know that we can research and plan a novel to death, but that the difference between a great idea and a great novel is writing it. I should know. While I pumped out a novel first draft when I was 19, and finished another first [...]

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 [...]

Posted August 24, 2008 by jstueart in Mishmash

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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 [...]

Posted June 23, 2008 by jstueart in Mishmash

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