When: TBA
EARLY BIRD PRICING: $700; Regular Price: $750
Location: The Writers Room, 740 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Closest Subways: 6 to Astor or N/R to 8th Street/NYU
Being a successful novelist is winning a cerebral triathlon: The first challenge of just writing a novel takes years of work. The second contest is selling the book to an agent – and even harder, a publisher. The final battle is winning a readership. In this 8-week intensive course you’ll have your fiction workshopped by a working novelist who has learned more lessons – and about more contradictions – than can be conveniently packaged into a simple how-to book.
This class will cover:
- The slow steady discipline of writing a novel–some tricks for dealing with writers block.
- Conception, structuring and outlining of a novel.
- The fine art of redrafting your pages.
- How other writers have dealt with common problems.
- Turning negative criticism into constructive notes.
- Overcoming rejection and bad news.
- The byzantine process of getting published, addressing some basic fallacies of the industry, navigating the business end, choosing between large press and small press, negotiating basic boilerplate contracts and dealing with agents, editors and, later, filmmakers.
- Handling publicity and planning your next novel.
The workshop will meet for two hours once a week, and will be conducted in a relaxed, supportive setting. Each class will include a workshop of some of your pieces, both novel and short fiction, as well as a lecture on some of the bullet points.
Have a question about Master Class Room courses? Contact courses@ideasmyth.com.
Instructor: Arthur Nersesian started out as Managing Editor of the Portable Lower East Side a NEA/Jerome Foundation journal that was defunded by Jesse Helms when it published a controversial Gay & Lesbian issue. He received a Masters in Writing at CUNY where he won two awards, the Blackman Award for Fiction and the Ross Alexander Playwrighting Award. His novels include The Fuck-up, Manhattan Loverboy, dogrun, Chinese Takeout, Suicide Casanova, Unlubricated and Mesopotamia. In May, his eleventh book, Gladyss of the Hunt will be coming out.
Dates & Time: TBA
Cost: Early Bird Special: $700; Regular Price: $750
Location: The Writers Room, 740 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Closest Subways: 6 to Astor or N/R to 8th Street/NYU
Have a question about Master Class Room courses? Contact courses@ideasmyth.com.