Writing the Novel
Description:Writing a novel can be a daunting task. But you don’t have to do it alone!
Writing a novel requires an inspired balance between ideas, craft, motivation and hard graft. This class will root your book in daring and useful tools for getting started, focusing your efforts, and problem solving. To write a novel you have to love what you are writing and you to need find ways to keep that alive.
This course will be rooted in wide-ranging discussions on process and craft which are applied in focused writing practices which help get you writing and help you to make crucial decisions about your book.
Each student will submit 2-3 pieces of NEW writing during the course and the feedback method we use in class doubles as a great decision making and self-editing tool. Useful and focused feedback on written submissions is provided by the instructor.
Who should attend: Writers of all levels ready to tackle a longer work, especially those who have taken this course before, Beginning or Intermediate fiction are welcome. If you are uncertain, give us a call at 773.477.7710.
NOTE: This class may used for Certificate Program students as one Elective.
About the Instructor: Elizabeth Reeder is a fiction writer whose short fiction has appeared in respected journals and anthologies in the UK and the US (e.g. Women’s Press, Polygon, Hanging Loose, Chapman (Edinburgh)). Recently, she had an original drama, stories and an abridgement broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Elizabeth is in her 4th year (part-time) of a Creative Writing PhD. Fiction drives her and she loves the extended love affair of writing novels. She’s completed her first novel, The Fremont Inheritance. A U.S. native, Elizabeth has recently returned to Chicago after living in Scotland since 1994.