Next week mediabistro.com is offering a 12-week novel writing course with James Fuerst, the author of Huge: A Novel. The goal of the course is to emerge with an 80-100 page draft of a new novel.
The course materials include a note about former success stories: “Students who have taken this class have published: Total Knockout: Tale of an Ex-Class President (Simon & Schuster), House and Home (Voice), and signed with the McIntosh and Otis agency.” The class starts on April 13, so sign up soon.
Here’s more about the course: “Join a small group of fellow writers in your pursuit of a completed first draft, under the guidance of a novelist who knows what she’s doing. You’ll learn the lost art of craft, the power of the outline, when to leave well enough alone, and how to turn your pages into a page-turner. If you need an edge to write that novel and make it salable, this is the class for you. For the first six weeks, you’ll get a lesson at the beginning of each class on such topics as characterization, tone, theme, and dialogue. For the second six weeks, the focus will switch to the business aspects of getting published.”