Intensive + Discussion : Keys to Story-building Success, Fall 2025
October 6th, 2025 - December 1st, 2025
with Lorin Oberweger
Non-members may register on August 14th at 10:00 (EDT).
After Lorin's talk for us on Maximizing your Premise, we wanted to go deeper into the topics she raised. This intensive breaks those areas open.
Each 90-minute class includes teaching and time for your questions, plus short in-class exercises and take-home exercises for participants to complete on their own. In addition, participants will have access to the 2022 class. We'll cover:
Class 1: Making the Most of Your Story World
Class 2: The Protagonist as Catalyst
Class 3: Organic Plotting
Class 4: Building Reader Empathy and Anticipation
When you sign up for the intensive + discussion, you will join a call led by Lorin accompanying each class to discuss class concepts in relation to your work. You'll complete homework exercises and bring them to the session for feedback, questions and discussion. Lorin will also provide light feedback to participants in the group's workspace after the calls (should you want to adjust homework based on feedback).
Notes
Who this workshop is for: <p>This class is for multiple levels. Lorin will be tackling class topics in depth and her unique perspective makes this an exciting class for experienced writers. Because the class addresses foundations, it will also be valuable for writers working on first and second novels. We have found that writers generally take away what they need based on what they are working on and where they are in their journey. In other words, you might take the same class twice and take away different things! </p>
Focus: Adult - Novels - Literary - Adult - Novels - Upmarket - Adult - Novel…
Group size: 10 writers
Submissions: Writers will be able to submit revisions of their homework for light feedback from Lorin a few days after each discussion.
Fee
Members: $250; Non-members: $295
About Lorin Oberweger
Lorin Oberweger is a highly sought-after independent book editor and ghostwriter with more than twenty-five years experience in publishing. Her company, Free Expressions, offers writing workshops nationwide, and she’s known for her one-on-one story mastermind weekends.
An award-winning author, Lorin has six traditionally published books (four fiction, two nonfiction), including BOOMERANG, REBOUND, and BOUNCE, published by Harper/William Morrow. Two more are due for publication in 2020. Her work has appeared in well over one-hundred periodicals, and her books have received glowing reviews from the New York Times, USA Today, Kirkus Reviews, and others.
Schedule:
- Oct 6, 7:30-9pm ET - Class 1
- Oct 13, 7-9pm ET - Discussion 1
- Oct 20, 7:30-9pm ET - Class 2
- Oct 27, 7-9pm ET - Discussion 2
- Nov 3, 7:30-9pm ET - Class 3
- Nov 10, 7-9pm ET - Discussion 3
- Nov 17, 7:30-9pm ET - Class 4
- Nov 24, 7-9pm ET - Discussion 4
Participants will be able to watch recordings of each session. Recordings are available for replay through January 6, 2026.