Two Year Novel Course: Set 1 (Basics)

By Lazette Gifford

Start your novel off right with this set of five classes to help expand on your initial idea and begin creating story goals.

Included are clases on genres, goals, setting and more. This is the first of nine sets covering 104 weeks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A Conspiracy of Authors
• Release date: Dec 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781936507122

Lazette Gifford

Lazette is an avid writer as well as the owner of Forward Motion for Writers and the owner/editor of Vision: A Resource for Writers.It's possible she spends too much time with writers.And cats.

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Two Year Novel Course: Set 1

By

Lazette Gifford

Copyright 2016 Lazette Gifford

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Table of Contents

Introduction to the lessons

Week 1 -- Idea and a short note on titles

Week 2: The Basics, Part Two

Week 3: The Basics, Part Three

Week 4: The Basics, Part Four

Week 5: The Basics, Part Five

About the Author

Introduction to the Lesson Sets (2018 Edition)

I can't teach you to be a great writer.

I can, however, show you the one thing I'm particularly good at which is moving through a story from start to finish. I can point out things which might help you in your goal to become a successful writer.

I can show you how to take hold of your imagination, and let it help you write the book that is there in your head, ready to be told. I can also show you some tricks to writing a good book which might have a better chance of drawing the attention of a reader. This includes an editor, who is, after all, a reader as well.

Nothing, of course, is guaranteed. You will have to do the work. You must be willing to learn and to experiment.

For the next two years, we're going to work our way through the writing of a novel. Depending on the genre you work in, you will aim at something between 80,000 and 150,000 words. If you dedicate yourself to doing the work, you will have also edited the work and begun the process of submitting the material to markets or preparing it for indie publication.

Some of you will work through the material faster than others. Because of the limitations of how this can be presented, we will be forced to stick to the structure of one class a week, and the somewhat artificial order presented here. This course is not going to be a fast romp through the work of writing. The 2YN course will be easy for some of you and harder for others, but I hope you will all learn something helpful -- if nothing more than learning that some of the suggestions don't work for you.

That is, by the way, an important aspect of learning to write. Sometimes forcing yourself to try to write to someone else's perfect method is a good way to kill even the most inspiring story. Here is the most important thing we all must remember in this class:

No two writers are alike.

So why should I teach this class? I'm not the best novelist in the world, but I do know how to start, continue, and complete a novel, as well as how to move on to rewrites, editing, and submission or publication. The act of writing is one of my strong