IT'S HERE!
From Research to Novel™ — The Course
From Research to Novel™ is officially live — and your first lesson is waiting for you right now.
I have been building this course for genealogists and family historians who have done the research, who know the stories are there, and who are finally ready to write them. Today, that work begins.
Here’s what’s coming over the next eight modules:
Module 1: Introduction to Genealogical Storytelling
Why your ancestor’s story matters — and how to start telling it.
Module 2: Research Foundations
How to read your genealogical documents through a writer’s eyes.
Module 3: Story Seeds & Expanding the Frame
How to find the story hiding inside your research.
Module 4: Characters
How to build fully realized characters from real people and fragmentary records.
Module 5: Where Imagination Meets Fact
How to write the scenes your records can’t give you — responsibly and compellingly.
Module 6: Arc & Beat Sheets
How to give your story a structure that works.
Module 7: Drafting
How to get the story out of your head and onto the page.
Module 8: Revision
How to shape a rough draft into something worth reading.
Eight modules. Thirty-two lessons. Worksheets, assessments, and a clear path from the research you already have to the story you’ve always wanted to tell.
Lesson 1.1 is free — and it starts right here:
Your ancestor has been waiting long enough. Let’s begin.
— Aryn