Immersive. Propulsive. Fast-reading. These are the qualities of a page turner. 

Whether you’re revising your novel or you just want to enhance these essential skills, don’t miss out on this opportunity to add more tools to your writer toolbox. 

Join best-selling author, teacher, and just all-around lovely human being Chris Tebbetts for this four-week generative, craft-focused workshop that will focus on tools and techniques for creating stories that keep readers engaged and … well … turning pages. 

Building on what is working well in each of your manuscripts, this workshop uses participants’ work in place of mentor texts. We’ll kick of our workshop with sentence level-revisions and subsequent sessions will examine scene-level, story-level, and thematic revisions. The final session will include additional time for an optional open mike and sharing of work.

Participants are invited to revise and resubmit scenes in the second half of the workshop for some before-and-after editing comparison. 

This Workshop Is For You If:

• You are an experienced or beginning novelist interested in expanding your writer’s toolbox.

• You are a writer who gravitates toward (or would like to increase their focus on) propulsive, immersive, and fast-reading fiction.

• You are a writer looking to tighten their prose. 

• You are a storyteller who finds plot and plotting difficult.

• You are a writer particularly interested in taking your work in a more commercial direction. 
  

You’ll Complete This Workshop With:

• The skills to keep readers turning pages and engaged.

• A better understanding of the deep POV, the single/singular idea, cause and effect, rhythm and cadence, the passage of time in your manuscript, and the writer/reader relationship

• The skills to find and eliminate hidden redundancies and to capture lived experiences on the page.

• The capacity to make your prose work for you – putting more storytelling in your story