$699 Class size: 8 students Sign up to be notified when this class returns
Hey, you finished a draft of your novel! Congratulations! That’s HUGE. So…now what? Now, you revise. You know that writing is revising, of course, but that doesn’t mean that the revision process isn’t often daunting and mysterious.
In this class, designed for writers who have a completed draft of a novel, students will learn specific tools, ranging from note-making techniques to scene-by-scene analysis, to help them successfully shepherd their books from first draft to final. “Complete” means that it has a beginning, middle, and an end; it might still be quite full of holes. It may very well be a hot mess. No problem. That, my friends, is what revision is for.
Each person will workshop twice, turning in up to 50 manuscript pages at a time. Two people will submit work each class meeting, so come prepared to read and respond to up to 100 pages of your classmates’ work each week. In addition to workshopping, we’ll discuss a variety of craft essays and excerpts from published novels.
This will not be a silent workshop, where the author sits passively and receives feedback in silence. I invite my students to be as actively engaged in their own workshops as feels useful to them. They’re free to ask and answer questions, redirect, clarify, or brainstorm possible solutions as we discuss their work. They are also free to sit and receive the feedback in silence, if that is what feels right to them.
Students will meet individually with me via Zoom once, toward the end of the course, for any questions they might have, to process the feedback received, and to make a plan for revisions.