Mastering Story Structure Workshop by Jenny MacKay

Stuck planning your novel? Lost in the middle of a draft? Unsure how to revise without overwhelm?

This five-week workshop offers a clear, practical approach to story structure. We’ll break down the essential elements all great stories share and show you how they work together on the page. You’ll learn how to:
• Build memorable characters that drive the plot
• Use setting as an active storytelling tool
• Weave every element into a cohesive narrative

With workbook pages and targeted homework, you’ll apply each lesson directly to your own project. By the end of the course, you’ll leave with a personalized story map—and a deeper understanding of how strong stories really work.

Instructor: Jenny MacKay, author of 34 nonfiction books for young readers and an academic copyeditor with clients including the American Medical Association, Elsevier, SAGE Publications, and Human Kinetics. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is an assistant regional advisor for SCBWI.

You may also like the following events from Sierra Arts Foundation:

• Next month, 7th March, 10:00 am, Making Sense of Revision Writing Workshop in Reno

Also check out other Workshops in Reno, Arts events in Reno, Literary Art events in Reno.