Mapping the Course of Your Novel

Choose from one of two sessions: July–August or November–December 2025.

Presented by veteran writing teacher Dr Rosemary Montgomery, Mapping the Course focuses on how you can draw together the elements of your story to fulfil your novel’s potential for good reading. It helps you create an overview that shows the way the various parts of your novel (setting, sequencing etc.) best relate. The program also encourages the development of a dynamic approach that will help the writer keep pace as their novel grows and changes and as their writing skills develop.

MTC explores a mix of proven development systems and, using published examples, opens up ways for individual writers to personalise them. Using a basic exemplar story, we try out some of the suggestions so that you can see their effects. This gives you a practical basis from which decide on a pattern for mapping out your own novel. Additionally, there are discussions of development problems participants are experiencing. Participants will end up with both a smorgasbord of techniques and the confidence to allow them to create the developmental system that best suits them.

This course gets rave reviews from students and will book out—so get in quickly!

Past Participant: "What an eye-opener. It’s not that mapping makes writing easy. It’s that I can see my way ahead—and that’s done wonders for my confidence."

Subsidised concession fees are available—email info@southcoastwriters.org to apply.

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SESSIONS

Session One: 26 July, 9 August, 30 August 1:30–3:30pm

Session Two: 8 November, 22 November, 6 December 1:30–3:30pm

PLEASE PURCHASE THE CORRECT SESSION TICKET AS ONCE SOLD OUT WE CANNOT EXCHANGE

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Rosemary is an internationally published academic author whose Ph.D. thesis won a place in Picador’s ‘Thesis to Book’ program. She has also successfully supported and edited many first-time fiction writers.