Write Your First Novel: Yes You!

Writers

Write Your First Novel: Yes You!

A class to prepare you to open the dreaded blank document for a novel.

Member

Free (any noted materials fee included)

Guest

$15.00 (any noted materials fee included)

Tuition Assistance and Other Policies

Meeting Times
  1. Wed, 10/15/2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Wed, 10/15/2025

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Type:
Class, No Prerequisite

Location:
Writers' Studio

Interests:
Writing Workshop and Critique

About

Have you always wanted to write a novel, but you've been too intimidated to start? Is there a book you wish existed, but you didn't have the tools to begin a draft?

Sitting down to write your first novel is as much a leap of faith as a matter of craft. But there are tools and resources to help you begin that will carry you through the 70,000 or more words before you reach "The End." This is a class for absolute beginners who will leave with a toolbox of things to help them open up that blank document and begin writing in November. 

Details

  • Skill level: For absolute beginners who will leave with a toolbox of things to help them begin writing in November.  "November novel writing month" is the common name for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), an annual writing challenge where the goal is to write a novel in 30 days. 
  • Be sure to bring something to take notes on. 

Class Policies

Ages 14 and up are welcome.

BARN Policies

Instructors or Guides

Chelsea Kellogg

C.R. Kellogg writes speculative fiction, essays, and creative non-fiction from the Pacific Northwest. She is a graduate of the 2023 class of Viable Paradise, a one-week residential writing workshop on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Her work has been published in FEAST Arts and Literary Magazine, the Sheepshead Review, and will be featured in the speculative fiction anthology “New Year, New You” due out in the fall of 2024. Kellogg lives on an island in the Puget Sound with her family.

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