Dates: Wednesdays, September 20th - October 25th
Time: 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Cost: $270
Limited to: 8 Participants (4 minimum)
Where: Imprint Bookstore

This 6-week series will help you get started on a full-length fiction project or recharge a novel-in-progress. Through a series of in-class writing prompts and homework exercises, we will dig into what makes a compelling story – character development, scene building, point-of-view, conflict, narrative arc — and how to approach the writing process to move you from “Once upon a time” to “The End”. Whether you are mulling over a story idea, have already written several chapters, or have a first draft but don’t know what to do next, you will gain a deeper understanding of your story, your characters and their motivations, as well as learn methods to structure your plotting while still honoring the magic of inspiration and your muse. 

The in-class exercises and homework will be generative, i.e. you will come away with new material, and you will have opportunities to share your work with other writer-participants.

To jumpstart our time together, all participants must begin the class series with a story idea to work on. You will be asked to provide your story concept (100 words maximum) a week or so prior to the first session.    

Julie Christine Johnson is the award-winning author of the novels In Another Life and The Crows of Beara. Her short stories and essays have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies. With degrees in French, Psychology and International Affairs, Julie has been a study abroad program administrator, a corporate wine buyer, and once managed a slaughterhouse in New Zealand. Now the finance manager for a non-profit poetry publisher, Julie makes her home in Jefferson County with her partner, their three cats, six chickens and Labradane, Daisy. Learn more about Julie and her writing at juliechristinejohnson.com