Polish Your Prose: Novel Editing Workshop

Class Description

Editing is its own craft, relying on a separate skill set from writing. As an editor, your instructor will share techniques that are often used while editing novel manuscripts to help authors polish their prose. In this seminar, we'll look at some big picture, story level aspects of your book, then we'll review the sentence level for things like redundancies and filler words. This course will give you ways to approach your manuscript, both systematic and strategic, so you can effectively edit on your own!

By the end of this class, students will be able to: analyze their novel draft, spot problems or weak areas, gain insight into overall story and characters, develop a plan to revise the novel efficiently with intention and approach the draft from the perspective of an editor, keeping the reader in mind.

This class is great for novelists of all levels.

Class Format

This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. About 15 minutes before your class is scheduled to begin, you'll receive an email from your instructor with a link to join the class meeting!

Scholarship Information

Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.

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