Middle School Novella Workshop: Drafting to Completion
Weekly guided workshops plus ongoing mentorship to help writers develop long-form stories with focused lessons, exercises, and peer feedback.
Paid once.
- Level
- Beginner
- Ages
- 10–13
- Duration
- 60 min
- Classes
- 1 / Week
- Weeks
- 8
- Not satisfied after the first class? Full refund.
- Pay weekly, or upfront
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Class Experience
This eight-week intensive supports writers working toward a completed long-form story (target wordcount provided). Each week features a focused lesson, warm-up, extended writing time, and goal-setting, with ongoing one-on-one feedback and a dedicated classroom page for peer support and uploads. Students practice structure, character, voice, and other craft elements through instruction and sustained writing.
Learning Outcomes
Explore different subgenres and their conventions
Use creative warm-up exercises to build writing momentum
Apply narrative structures to plan scenes and arcs
Develop complex characters with motivations and arcs
Give and receive constructive peer feedback to improve drafts
Learning Needs Support
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Meet your Instructor
With over seven years of experience instructing adolescent writers, this educator guides middle school students through extended fiction projects from initial idea to completed novella. Emphasis placed on plotting, character development, pacing, voice, and multiple revision cycle…
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