Developing the High-Concept Novel (3 sessions)

Developing the High-Concept Novel–Publishing has gone Hollywood. Today, book editors, just like film makers, look for novels that stand out as splashy, important, and likely to attract the maximum number of readers. Learn what high-concept means and how to use various fiction techniques to add a special "hook" and reader appeal to your work-in-progress. This is a 3-session course. Each student will bring a written, 1-page story concept to the first class for discussion. Suggestions for fine tuning of the idea will generate an assignment to further solidify your plot and structure for your novel–thereby increasing the author's ability to generate a finished book more likely to interest a literary agent, publisher and, ultimately, readers. Learn to work like the pros who produce a book, or more, each year to keep their readers coming back for more.