Novel Writing Workshop 2024
Calling all Novelists
It’s time to get started on that novel you’ve always wanted to write!
Local author David E. Feldman will be hosting a four-week Novel Writing Workshop consisting of a half hour talk, focusing on craft, after which attendees will work on their projects. The last week will feature participants reading their work.
Date and Time:
Sundays • 1:45PM - 2:45PM
April 7, April 14, April 21, April 28, 2024
Location:
Magnolia Senior/Community Center
650 Magnolia Boulevard, 2nd floor
Long Beach, NY
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The Novel Writing Workshop will include:
Developing your concept:
What do you want to write? Genre fiction, literary fiction, memoirs. Subgenres. Your personal stake or relationship to your story. Your story is your own. Your logline: your story in a sentence.Creating your universe
From concept to premise. What is the situation at the start of your novel? What will be the situation at the end of your novel?
Are you a “plotter” or a “pantser”Who are your primary characters and what are their conflicts and arcs?
Protagonists, antagonists, sidekicks, adversaries, and supporting characters.What are their backstories? Motivations? Goals? What is a character arc?
First person, second person, third person. Omnicient vs limited perspectives.Story Structure and Process:
You and your process: write, write, write!
“Spew & edit.”A note about what is hidden and “big reveals”
Setting your scenes/sequences. Narration, action & dialogue.
How to write dialogue. Interior monologue.Inciting Incident and 3 Act Structure.Act 1 (Setup): Beginning/Prologue, Inciting Incident, Second Thoughts, Climax of Act 1
Act II (Confrontation): Ascending action throughout. Obstacle, Obstacle, Midpoint/Big Twist. Obstacle. Disaster. Crisis. Climax. Reversal? Another twist or reveal?
Act III (Resolution): Constant climax, followed by descending action, wrap-up, epilogue, end. -
David E. Feldman has written 10, soon to be 11, books of his own and ghost-written many others. He has made several films, won 2 film awards and was a winner of a playwriting contest in 2022. His first in series Not Today - Dora Ellison Mystery Book 1 was a Best Mystery 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore finalist and was followed by five more Dora books. His novel The Neighborhood was a 2023 finalist for The Book Excellence Awards. He also writes essays and articles both digitally and for print.