Description
Do you have three quarters of a novel? Just a start? Just an end? Is the messy middle holding you back? Let’s take a deep dive into what is stopping you from finishing your novel.
Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this workshop:
What stops an artist from finishing their projects?
How to recognize and combat the root causes of “block.”
How to develop a habit of finishing projects.
How to recognize when it is actually done?
You’ll also get:
“Lubricating” exercises to get you over plot friction
Checklist of the most common reasons for not finishing
Self-test questions for finishing
Plot theory handout
DATE: APRIL 22, TUESDAY
TIME: 6PM ET | 5PM CT | 4PM MT | 3PM PT | 22:00 UTC
About your instructor, Marie Vibbert
Hugo and Nebula nominated author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared over 90 times in top magazines like Nature, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and been translated into Czech, Chinese and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review. She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games.
She’s been translated into French, Czech, Chinese, and Vietnamese! Her work’s been called “..the embodiment of what science fiction should be…” by The Oxford Culture Review. By day she’s a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.
