Self-Editing for Publication:

Beyond Getting the Story Down

3-day workshop 

Having trouble with editing your own writing?

Purpose:  This workshop will help you learn to use successful techniques for editing your own manuscript in order to maximize its potential for publication.

While writers often leave editing to the publishing house, research shows that simple editing mistakes shape the way a potential publisher views the entire writing project! Don't let your cherished manuscript suffer the slings of outrageous misfortune!

This three day intensive workshop will provide both fiction and nonfiction writers with techniques and insights needed to refine their manuscript. 

Whether your project is complete or in progress, this workshop can help you learn to detect and revise stylistic, syntactic, lexical, and mechanical challenges in your own writing as well as to employ subtle rhetorical and literary strategies—borrowed from literary masterworks and best-sellers--to actualize your objectives for your manuscript.

After enrolling, participants must submit via e-mail a short excerpt (10-20 pages) of the work-in-progress (and a synopsis) 30 days prior to the workshop.   We suggest the entire work (or as much as is finished) be brought to the workshop.    

Tuition: T.B.D.

Workshop features:

Self-editing techniques and how to apply them, discussion.

One-on-one editorial coaching sessions will be included.

Taught by an expert in the fields of writing and editing, the workshop will include ample time to apply these successful strategies to your own writing--come away with a fully edited manuscript! 

What to bring?

Sample pages you submitted prior to the workshop. Your favorite or most promising manuscript. Customary writing implements.