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Creative Writing - Meet Your Goals and Become a Novelist With NaNoWriMo!
Use your creativity and story-writing skills to become a novelist. We'll use the National Novel Writer's Young Writers' Program to plan, write, revise, edit, and publish a complete novel. Great for both avid and reluctant writers. Set and accomplish your writing goals!
No live meetings
Over 12 weeks
9-14
year olds
1-9
learners per class
per learner - per week
How does a "Flex" course work?
No scheduled live video chats
Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher
Great if your learner prefers independent pacing or is uncomfortable with live video chat

Available Times
Pacific
Available Times
Pacific
Description
Class Experience
Students will participate in the writing process, from planning to drafting, editing to revising. At the end, you'll have finished your first novel!
Licensed teacher with over 10 years of classroom experience teaching writing including several years guiding writers through NaNoWriMo.
In order to succeed and complete a novel during this class, learners should set aside some time every day to write. Learners will create and pursue their own word-count goals and choose an amount of writing that is just right for them.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
No live meetings, and an estimated 1 - 2 hours per week outside of class.
We will use the NaNoWriMo Young Writer's Program materials and website. https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/