1. What The Successful Author Must Possess
	Purpose in Writing, Knowledge, "The Plan," Notes, The Single Best Author Tool

2. Major Complication Analysis
	Drama Theory, Statement of Conflict, Rising Action, 15 Steps of Complication, Reader Reaction Flow	Dryden, H. Miller, Krutch, Kesey
Exercise: Students will devise one major complication

3. Theme in The Novel
	Statement of Theme, Importance, Application and Representation	Malraux, West, Kesey, Ionesco
Exercise: creation of a primary "theme statement"

4. Methods of Character Development
	Animation Sketching, Cognition and Affect, Social Reaction Profile, Tics and Tags, Epiphany and Emotional Evolution	S. Anderson, E. Brontë, Fitzgerald, West, Hemingway
Exercise: animation sketch of at least one major character.

5. Plot Devices and Other Needs
	Scene Construction, Verisimilitude, POV, Masking, Forshadow, Timesim, Exposition, Surprise, Minor Complication, Character Transformation	Zola, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Ibsen, O'Connor, R.P. Warren, West, Knowles, Nabokov
Exercise: diagram a prototype plot flow.

6. Story Enhancement Techniques
	Stages of an event, seeding of minor complications and sub-events, anecdotal devices, imagery, details, the human condition	R. Graves
Exercise: Given background, students will write one anecdote.

7. Narrative Enhancement Techniques
	Delayed Cognition, Variable Tense, Spatial-temporal Transitions, Irreal Tone, Sentence Embellishment, Importance of Subject Matter, Narrative Styles	Puig, Godwin, Kosinski, Kingsolver, Updike, Proulx, Marquez, Calvino, Brontë
Exercise: Given prose enhancement guide, students     will practice descriptive narrative variations.

8. Dialogue Forms and Functions
	Major Functions, Need for Inclusion of Specific Elements, Types of Dialogue, Narrative Interjections	R. Price, Joyce, T. Williams, Hemingway
Exercise: Given background, students will write one major     scene with dialogue

9. Suspense Techniques
	Surreal description, suggestion, pondering, foreshadow, character, motifs, provocation	McInerney, Kesey, O'Connor
Exercise: students will experiment with technique in narrative.

10. Prose Style Enhancement
	Prose drills, prose narrative guides, sentence types and exercises	Shakespeare, Roethke, Welty, M. Martone
Exercise: specific drills/exercises designed to hone style.