Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2025

Often neglected the most important part of the process is prewriting. Spurned by a powerful but short-sighted urge to “get started" one rushes headlong and unprepared into the deep unforgiving waters of muddled middles, flat characters, incomplete ideas, and weak plots only to founder and wreck on the infamous writer’s block.

What you need is a pre-writing checklist to verify you’re ready, that your is hold full, your ship intact, your destination sure. Laden with sharpened harpoons for the literary leviathans that await.

This class presents a concrete check list of items and angles every author should consider before starting out of any work of fiction.