More Than A Guilty Pleasure: Mastering the Romance Novel Form To Tell the Perfect Story

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More Than A Guilty Pleasure: Mastering the Romance Novel Form to Tell the Perfect Story

Learn to seduce a reader from the first sentence through to the heart-thumping, breath-taking, you-knew-it-was-coming-but-not-this-way! happy ending.  Motivated students will be given the structure and support to complete a first draft of a romance novel by week 8; beginning students will learn how to play with tropes, tension, pacing, climaxes (dramatic and other), dialogue, and character development.

Wednesdays, January 15 to March 4, 2020
7 pm to 9 pm
Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society @ cSpace, 1721 29 Ave SW, Calgary AB

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WRITING PROMPTS for Homework will be posted on mjanecolette.co by 4 am MST.

SLIDE DECKS and resource notes for each week’s class will be posted at mjanecolette.com/awcs each Wednesday night. You need a password to access the week’s slide deck and lessons, which will be given in class, and the class is held in person, in Calgary. Out-of-town folks–sorry! But, I travel–ask me to come visit. 😉

Week 1  Foundation, Writer Math, Making Time, Practice — live

Week 2 – 3 Act Structure, Your Idea, Writing Drunk, Your Characters (live)

Week 3  – To Plot or To Plan, Chunking (live)

Week 4 – Act 1: from INCITING INCIDENT to first CLIMAX (live)

Week 5 – Act 2, Part 1: avoiding the SAGGY MIDDLE (live)

Week 6 – Act 2, Part 2: crafting the DARK MOMENT (live)

Week 7  – Act 3: towards the HAPPILY EVER AFTER (live)

Week 8 – Next Steps: from revising through to publishing (live)

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Video of slide deck from Week 1, from last year’s course:

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