Novel workshop
A novel workshop is a writing workshop in which participants write or revise novels. This form of writing workshop can be classified as a form of creative writing . Novel workshops were initially held in the USA since the 1940s and spread in German-speaking countries since the early 1970s, when creative writing became more popular.
Usually certain topics of novel writing are discussed or explained there one after the other. Such topics can be:
- the protagonist (main character)
- the antagonist (opponent)
- Exposé (content)
- premise
- Flashback (flashback)
- style
- Narrative perspective
- plot
- tension
- Twists and plot points
There is training as a writer at the University of Hildesheim and the University of Leipzig ( German Literature Institute Leipzig ).
Web links
- Berlin novel workshop
- Roman workshop in Munich
- Text planer - workshop for text technology in Vienna
- Distance learning course "Novel Workshop"
- Writing fluency - Jurenka Jurk's novel workshop with training as a novelist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen vom Scheidt: Timeline of creative writing. In: creative writing, texts as ways to yourself and to others. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991 online timetable