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.

• A class for students who seriously want to write a novel!
• Includes membership to exclusive KWN author's platform to share, collaborate, get help, and encourage program authors.

Dates and times TBA, but classes begin in January 2025 and run through December 2025. We'll meet three times each in January, April, May, September, October, November, and December. We'll meet four times each in February and March. We'll meet one time each in June, July, and August.

Length: 32 weekly sessions, 90 minutes each. 

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 your child’s 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). 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.