When: Sept 3-28, 2018 (4 weeks)

Delivery Method: Private Yahoo Group

Price: $5/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 & Plot
  • Character Development & Voice
  • World Building / Descriptions
• Week 3
  • Passive vs. Active Voice
  • Telling vs. Showing
  • Dialogue
• Week 4
  • Clichés
  • Little Details
  • Q&A & Checklist