This is a follow up project for students who completed our Genre Fiction Story Development 2 project. In this project, we will guide you through the process of fleshing out the story outline you created in the previous project, and developing a second draft of the manuscript.

Support for students will include:

• Weekly mentoring with a developmental editor
• Training in the use of our collaborative writing software
• Guidance in the mechanics of story-telling and plot development

Students will be involved in:

• Workshopping and developing the plot of a story from start to finish
• Taking into account the needs of popular or genre fiction in today's market
• Working within a defined and disciplined structure to plot the book
• Meeting weekly deadlines and attending weekly editor meetings remotely
• Storyboarding or plotting out the action of a story in bullet point form
• Expanding on bullet point notes to begin the process of turning a plot or an outline into a finished book

This project will take place over eight weeks, during the course of which the student will deliver the following assets:

• A fully developed and cohesive story outline
• The second draft for forty scenes
• A second draft involves turning the bullet point scenes you created previously into longer-form and more polished prose
• A final report to be presented to the employer on the state of the outline and the next steps going forward