Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel III
WRITING X 416.3E
Continue your sci-fi or fantasy novel in progress in this workshop designed to help you deepen knowledge of craft as you create new pages.
What you can learn.
- Write up to 50 additional pages of your science fiction or fantasy novel in progress
- Learn to push through the challenging middle portion of your novel
- Focus on craft tools like worldbuilding, scenecraft, and character development
- Find innovative points of entry and framing for your scenes
About this course:
For writers with a minimum of 50 pages of a science fiction and fantasy novel-in-progress, this workshop guides them to generate 50 additional pages. Writers often experience lack of direction or stamina at this middle stage in their novel. This workshop thus focuses on craft tools orbiting subjects such as worldbuilding, infodump-hiding, scenecraft and character development to enter scenes in fresh, inspiring ways. This craft-heavy course emphasizes prompts, exercises and games to help writers rotate their scenes and find innovative points of entry and framing. Writers will complete the workshop with an additional 50 pages, as well as a more robust arsenal of craft skills particularly useful for science fiction and fantasy works.
Prerequisites
WRITING X 416.2E Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel II, or departmental approval.
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