Chalk Scribblers workshop: novel structure

A novel’s structure is its skeleton. It gives the novel its shape, but it’s hard to see because it lies beneath the muscles of character, the skin of prose and all the other organs and tissues of storytelling.

In this workshop, four scribblers will be dissecting four novels so we can learn from those structures. We’ll open with each person speaking briefly about the structure and then go to a more general moderated discussion.

The novels will be:

• A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
• Killing Floor by Lee Child
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Chapter-by-chapter breakdowns will be posted here by Sunday 19th April
Some of the novels up for discussion have adult themes that may be explored in the discussion.