Module 1. Getting Started with Your Novel
Topic 1: Understand the importance of goals and how to set them
topic 2: Explain the different writing genres
Topic 3: Write a plan for a novel
Topic 4: Research different eras, settings and locations
Topic 5: Understand how to develop ideas for novels

Module 2. Writing The First Chapter
Topic 1: Plan your writing time
Topic 2: Decide whose story you are telling and how it affects the way you write
Topic 3: Decide when your story will start and therefore the correct tense to use
Topic 4: Use flashbacks and defining moments
Topic 5: Write an effective beginning
Topic 6: Understand various styles of writing to determine which is most effective

Module 3. Choosing Your Characters
Topic 1: Understand the importance of your character’s name
Topic 2: Create realistic characters
Topic 3: Discuss the importance of relationships between characters
Topic 4: Understand how to move your story forward
Topic 5: Understand how to move your story forward Give your characters challenges
Topic 6: Demonstrate how to write realistic dialogue

Module 4. Developing the Middle Story
Topic 1: Understand how to keep your readers reading
Topic 2: Define the structure of your novel
Topic 3: Use conflict and tension to keep the reader interested
Topic 4: Understand the importance of action in a novel
Topic 5: Use chapters and transitions to move your novel along

Module 5. Writing the Story's Ending
Topic 1: Bring all the strands of your novel to satisfying conclusion
Topic 2: Ensure that your novel moves at a satisfying pace throughout and the end isn’t rushed
Topic 3: Understand how changes in the time and place can be necessitate other changes throughout the novel
Topic 4: Lay out your manuscript, including dialogue, in a professional manner

Module 6.What Publishers are Looking for in a Novel
Topic 1: Find a publisher appropriate to your novel’s genre, both in Australia and overseas
Topic 2: Research the publisher’s requirements for submitted manuscripts
Topic 3: Understand what a literary agent does and whether or not you need one
Topic 4: State how to approach a publisher
Topic 5: Explain the various roles in a publishing house and who you will deal with as an author

Module 7. Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication
Topic 1: Structurally edit and proofread your manuscript
Topic 2: Prepare your manuscript to the highest standard you can before submitting it to a publisher or assessor
Topic 3: Understand font and typefaces and why it’s important to keep your manuscript layout as clean and simple as possible
Topic 4: Objectively assess your novel or know where to find someone who will

Module 8. Getting your Novel Published
Topic 1: State the differences between an outline and a synopsis
Topic 2: Understand how the publishing process works
Topic 3: Write a blurb for your novel
Topic 4: Write a cover letter and synopsis to send to a publisher
Topic 5: Understand how the retail price of a book is divided between the parties involved with producing and selling it