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Ten to the End

10 Months to the End of Your Book

Next session begins April 1, 2025

with Pat Dunn and Alexandra Soiseth

Join Key to the Castle Workshop instructor Pat Dunn and guest instructor Alexandra Soiseth. The faculty for this program have decades of experience shepherding fiction and memoir writers from story idea to full manuscripts and beyond.

Ten months to the end of your book is a unique blend of generative writing and story development, with craft teaching and practice sessions as well as extensive connection and accountability sessions and structures. Ideal for the writer with a partial or first draft needing refining and/or focus and/or building, or, the writer with just the seedling of an idea and a few notes. This course is like an MFA in a box, with an emphasis on generating and building a story with enough tension/drama/character development to pull the reader from the first sentence to the last while also ensuring a deep layered resonance to make that reading journey fulfilling. Targeted feedback will come in the form of one-to-one conferences for maximum individual attention to the writer and their story. Completing a book is as much an emotional journey as it is a technical one, and when you take this course, you will never have to travel alone.

With weekly write-ins, group meet-ups and one-to-one meetings with the instructors totaling 880 hours of class time spread out over a ten month period the cost of tuition averages out to only $5.67 per hour and can be even less if you take advantage of one or more of the cost savings opportunities illustrated below.

Tuition:

  • Full Tuition $4,999.00* (payable in 3 installments) ($1750 on acceptance to the program, then $1625 due by February 28, final payment of $1624 due by March 31, 2025)

  • Pay in full (no installments) by March 25, 2025 Tuition $4,699.00*

  • Application Fee $50 (non-refundable and will be deducted from tuition for accepted applicants)

  • Valentines Day - "Feel the Love" special pay in full (no installments) by February 28th $4250*

(*these amounts are based on payment by Zelle or check. All credit card payments will be assessed an addition 6% processing fee)

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