180 Days to Save the World: Plan, Write, and Publish your YA novel in one year. 9th-adult. 2025. Instructor Bell.

Crescenza Studio is pleased to offer the following course from Kids Write Novels (published by Innovative Learning Press):

180 DAYS TO SAVE THE WORLD! Plan, Write, and Publish your YA novel in one year. This is a class for highschoolers and adults who seriously want to write a novel!

This class runs from 11am-12:30pm CST (90 minutes) on the following Thursdays: 

January 16, 23, 30; February 6, 13, 20, 27; March 6, 13, 20, 27; April 3, 10; May 1, 8, 15, 22; June 12; July 10; August 14; September 11, 18, 25; October 16, 23, 30; November 6, 13, 20; December 4, 11, 18. 

Required materials: 180 Days to Save the World (Young Adult) Workbook

Length: 32 weekly sessions. 

Online workshops via Zoom.

After purchasing this class, you will receive downloadable instructions via email.

This interactive course will teach your child the basics of writing a novel from start to finish. For the first few weeks, students will spend a good deal of time brainstorming story elements and world-building. The textbook includes many worksheets to guide them on their way–everything from character sheets to loose-end trackers, and so much more! Textbooks are hundreds of pages long, and much of that is made up of practical, hands-on activities.

In addition to brainstorming and writing a full 12-chapter novel, with all the plot points generally included in a standard, full-length story, the student text contains many helpful chapters to level-up your child’s story-telling skills. Here is a sampling of what’s included:

• Industry terms
• Outlining
• Story beats
• Elements from the Hero’s Journey
• Character types
• Backstory
• Character development
• Research
• Literary techniques
• Grammar pages
• POV
• Dialogue
• Show, don’t tell
• Conflict/plot
• Climax/resolution
• Revision
• Formatting
• Self-publishing

Note: This is not an easy class, but it can be modified at home to suit personal needs and learning style. From day one, students will have assignments to complete between sessions. They can spend as much or as little time as they want to complete their homework as long as they have something to show for it and have completed the basic requirements. There are no word-count minimums.

180 Days to Save the World is a full language arts program available for 4th-5th (chapter book version), 6th-8th (middle grade version) and 9th-12th (young adult version). You are looking at the listing for the YA (young adult) version. Miss Amy, an affiliate of Innovate Learning Press (ILP), was personally trained by Sarah Reid, ILP's managing director and developer of the curriculum. Amy is an accomplished instructor with 30 years of teaching experience. In addition, she is an accredited teacher through IEW’s instructor program. You can view her instructor page here.

If a participant is unable to complete the series for some reason, they will still have access to our weekly class recordings. :)

See a sample here.