StretchLearn Course
A working novelist's system for structure, character, scene craft, revision, and the query that gets you read.
Course Overview
Most aspiring novelists stall somewhere between a great idea and a finished book. This course gives you the architecture (Save the Cat beat sheet, the Three-Act and Hero's Journey skeletons), the character tools (want vs. need, the lie the character believes), and a repeatable scene-and-revision system that working novelists use. You finish with a structured draft, a developmental edit plan, and a submission-ready query and synopsis.
Learning Outcomes
Architect a full novel using a 15-beat structure mapped to your premise and genre
Build protagonists and antagonists with a clear want, need, wound, and arc
Write scenes on the scene-and-sequel model so every page earns its place
Diagnose and fix sagging-middle pacing using scene-level tension tools
Run a three-pass revision (developmental, line, copy) on your own draft
Write a one-page query letter and synopsis that earns agent manuscript requests
Curriculum Preview
Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.
Turn a vague idea into a load-bearing premise and a 15-beat structural skeleton that holds a full novel together.
Build characters with internal and external arcs, choose a point of view on purpose, and give your narrator a distinct voice.
Build scenes that advance the story, control pace deliberately, and fix the middle that kills most drafts.
Run a structured multi-pass revision, get useful feedback, and write the query and synopsis that earn agent requests.
Built for Application
This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.