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“I don’t need time, I need a deadline.”
― Duke Ellington

A Novel Approach Writing Workshops

A NOVEL APPROACH has been helping novelists and memoirists write, refine and present their finished manuscripts to the publishing marketplace for 15 years.

We help our writers accomplish this by creating the discipline, learning and support to complete a FIRST DRAFT in 10 months (or complete a substantial portion of one in a longer manuscript), and then offer substantive support to develop those first drafts into second drafts and take them out into the publishing marketplace. Many of our participants have found success with mainstream publishers while others have chosen the self-publication route. We offer full support in navigating both publication streams.

But not every writer comes to the workshop with a fresh idea for a novel or the courage to explore their personal journey in a memoir. Sometimes writers approach us with partially completed stories, ideas that started off with so much flourish, but ended up in a file or in a drawer. Sometimes life just got in the way, or the energy to finish that book alone seemed too much. So this year we have added two exciting workshops for those who writers whose stories remain untold:

FINISH YOUR NOVEL AT LAST!
FINISH YOUR MEMOIR AT LAST!

We want you to graduate from saying, “I’m writing a book,” to the sublime joy of proclaiming, “I’ve written a book.”

FIRST DRAFT FICTION

Starts October 8th, 2025

Bi-weekly Wednesday evenings

6:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time

FIRST DRAFT MEMOIR

Returns in September, 2025

Starts the week of September 16th.

Monday evenings 6:00 to 8:30 EST OR

Tuesday afternoons 1 – 3:30 EST

Finish Your Book At Last!

FICTION returns in January, 2026

MEMOIR dates coming soon!