Class Description
You don’t need to start your story with a car chase or make a gun go off to draw readers in or keep them reading. Tension in fiction is created in a variety of ways, and through close reading, discussion, and in-class writing assignments, you’ll learn to craft compelling characters, choose fresh plot lines, manipulate pacing, charge dialogue, and highlight setting in ways that support the conflict of your story. Learn how to move your characters closer to their goals while introducing complications that raise the stakes, putting what your characters want and need at risk, making failure more possible and dangerous. You’ll learn to create the kind of intense curiosity that keeps readers turning pages. No advance submissions necessary.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. About 15 minutes before your class is scheduled to begin, you'll receive an email from your instructor with a link to join the class meeting!
Zoom Participation:
Students are not required to turn their camera on, but are encouraged to participate any way they feel comfortable through functions such as the live chat, emoji reactions, and unmuting the microphone. Learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
We ask that instructors enable closed captioning and send a transcript of the session after class. You can also enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting. If your instructor forgets to send the transcript, just send ’em an email!