- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Subscriber Member Pricing: $15.00
- Basic Member Pricing: $20.00
- Category
- Structure
- Genre
- Plotting
- Class Length
- 1 Week
A class designed to take the idea and opening scenes of a story and turn it into a full-fledged finished product. Using a method involving character needs and oppositions, writers will learn to churn out a list of ideas, create detailed scenes from those ideas, and figure out the best ending their story needs.
- Outline
- Day One - Creating Wants and Needs from your Premise: Learn to use the pieces of your plot in your premise to create a detailed want and need chart for your main character.
- Day Two - Create Blockades for you Characters: Using your wants/needs chart, create a list of plausible actions that can be used to move your story and characters forward
- Day Three - Creating Detailed Scenes: Taking your list of blockades, use three simple questions (how a scene unfolds, how it develops plot, and how it affects character) to create detailed scenes that will support your story goals.
- Day Four - Mini Plots: Learn to recognize when a scene is really a mini plot, and use past exercises to create full arcs.
- Day Five - Side Plots: Learn how to fill in the holes and create appropriate side plots that will emphasize character growth
- Day Six - Endings: Look at how your scenes have affected characters, and put it together with what they want and need. Form this information, figure out which ending will best suit your story, if you don't have it figured out already.
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
