No-Nonsense Development

Advanced Novel Writing Workshop

Knopf Associate Publishing Director Melanie Cecka and Scott Treimel are faculty for the 2014 Pacific Coast Children's Writers Workshop and Retreat. Get set to learn your head off. The workshop format is collegial  (attendees observe all critiques, e.g.) with professional face-to-face galore. Think of your growth as a writer. Get set to push it into hyperdrive. 

*  *  *  EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS MAY 28  *  *  *

Conception

Structure

Theme

Setting

Storytelling

Dialogue

Pacing for dramatic effect
Brewing tension
Plot Layers

Subordinating plotlines
Controlling the reader's experience

Narration: first person, third person— a lot to say (teach) on this one 

Character Stakes
The Antagonist
Interior Logic
More more mor

AND guess what— the venue sits on the Santa Cruz-Monterey Bay!