When: June 4-29, 2018 (4 weeks)

Delivery Method: Private Yahoo Group

Price: $15/person

Description:

Being able to edit your own work is a skill every author should develop. It is a skill developed over time and incorporating experience. But where do you start?

This workshop will help authors of all experience levels develop a solid checklist to help them self-edit their own work before every sending to an editor. We’ll cover everything content editing, tightening, grammar clean up and more.

The workshop is broken into the following topics:

• Week 1
  • Types of Editing
  • Start Big and Narrow
  • Goal/Motivation/Conflict (GMC)
• Week 2
  • Pacing
  • Voice
  • Setting / Descriptions
• Week 3
  • Passive vs. Active Voice
  • Dialogue
  • Cliches
• Week 4
  • Telling vs. Showing
  • Overused Words
  • Redunant Words
  • Q&A