8-Week: Revising Fiction—The Novel Chapter

Novel chapters, like short stories, ask you to do a lot. Setting! Plot! Language! But chapters tend to ask a little more of you than short stories do: Where should I end this? Where do these scenes fit into my main character’s arc? Does this part even make sense? In this class, we’ll discuss a range strategies for revising your very own novel chapters. Through different readings and writing prompts, we’ll better understand how and what to dramatize within a novel chapter. In addition, as this is a workshop course, we’ll share our revised chapters with the whole class and discuss individual revision choices together. This class is for all levels of fiction writers—but you’ll need to have written some novel chapters before now. After eight weeks, you’ll be more than ready to tackle the rest of your novel!