Description
- Monday, February 17 to Friday, February 21
- Daily from 10:00 to 1:00 and (optional) reading sessions from 6:00–8:00
- Maximum enrollment: 17 people
Where is the deep and meaningful novel that’s also an addictive page-turner? Give your beautifully crafted and thematically significant narrative the chance to also be a mega-blockbuster.
Are you the writer the world is waiting for who can merge the metaphysics and craft of Moby Dick with the page-turning power of Jaws? This workshop will inspire you to be that writer and show you how to begin. With Susan Brown, PhD, learn how to transcend the artificial and fathomless polarity between commercial writing (which sells and has a wide readership) and profound and stunning literary fiction (which can be difficult to publish and has a minute readership) to create what readers want and haven’t seen in eighty years—a literary blockbuster. Study the secret handshakes of the greatest authors and the best-selling commercial writers and learn to combine the best practices of both without sacrificing quality. With models, prompts, exercises, and feedback sessions, Susan Brown will guide you to begin a new project or revise your existing novel into what readers really want: a prize-winning literary narrative that’s also an addictive read. The morning sessions will be devoted to an interactive class and then writers will be invited to share their work-in-progress in an optional reading session at night.
