In this six-hour workshop, you'll learn how to edit your book. Whether you plan to self-publish or take the traditional route, you'll want to make sure that your manuscript is ready for submission to an agent, editor or publisher.
We'll begin with premise and then look at other big-picture story elements: characterization, point of view, dialogue, structure, setting and plot. You'll learn about scene and summary, as well as beginnings, middles and endings. And you'll find out about techniques that will keep your readers turning the pages.
Finally, we'll look at voice and at how you can avoid making the most common sentence-level errors in fiction writing. You'll leave the workshop knowing where to start and what to leave until later. And you'll receive a comprehensive list of print and online resources that will help you edit your own novel.
Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13 (2 classes)
1 - 4 p.m.
$95 (+ HST)
Shelley Egan works as a freelance editor and writing coach. As well as a certificate in the developmental editing of fiction, she has earned a BA in English, an MEd, and a publishing certificate from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), formerly Ryerson University. There, she was nominated by her copy-editing instructor for an award for excellence in book editing.
A former Hansard editor, and college and university ESL instructor, Shelley is an enthusiastic lifelong learner. In addition to studying fiction editing through TMU, Editors Canada, and Club Ed Freelancers, she has taken writing and editing workshops from, among others, author-instructors David Corbett, Jennifer Lawler, Tim Lott, Claire McGowan, Roz Morris, and Susan Pohlman - as well as from Sarah Burton and Jem Poster, co-founders of Cambridge University’s master’s program in creative writing.
An Editors Canada member and volunteer, Shelley leads workshops for UNB’s College of Extended Learning, teaches courses for Club Ed Freelancers, and belongs to a writing group with members in England, Barbados, and British Columbia.
