Join us starting October 5, 2009 as we work our way through applying Donald Maass’s Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook to our current WIP. We’ll be doing a chapter a week and working until we reach the end of the workbook. We’ll read the chapter and do the exercises at the end and post the answers to the list along with any questions, comments, suggestions, mental breakthroughs, rants or raves.

The workbook is available on Amazon and other sites. That and a WIP or a story idea you want to develop are about all you’ll need to join us. Well, that and a sense of humor.

Each week will start on Monday, the first being Oct 5, 2009. We’ll take a break Thanksgiving week (Nov 22nd to Nov 28th), from Dec 20th to Jan 3rd and from Mar 28th to Apr 4th. If I counted right we’ll finish in time for Fourth of July. Symbolic, I’m sure.

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This post was submitted by Sharon Pickrel.