Come Write with Me

There’s still time to register for my course, Editing Your Prose.

It starts on January 14th and is six weeks–every Monday night at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio.

I’d love to have you there. I’ve pasted the course details below. To register, go to http://www.nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk.

 

Editing Your Prose with Victoria Oldham

14 January – 18 February (6 weeks)

Victoria is back with her much praised Editing Your Prose course. So many people were asking about it we decided to run it again! See what past participants have said:

“I was a bit stuck on what type of editing the second draft of my novel needed – now I’m not.”

“It more than met my expectations – covering material I hadn’t thought about – despite my own professional editing experience. [...] I now understand things I’ve been told before, that didn’t entirely make sense. It’s improved my planning process almost beyond recognition.”

The Course

The first course of action when writing is to write. To get your ideas down in, at least theoretically, a cohesive and plausible way. But when you’re done with that, it’s time to give your work some tough love. This six-week editing course will go over various aspects of self-editing, including point of view, structural gaps and how to fill them, word choice, dialogue and basic editing tips on both line and structural levels. You will be working on your own manuscript, and the instructor will use examples from everyone’s work in order to show, not tell.

The Tutor

Victoria Oldham is a professional editor with a publishing house in New York, and has published more than sixty articles and short stories.

Cost: £48 full price, £36 NWS members
Dates: Mondays, weekly, from 14 January to 18 February 2013, 7–9pm
Where: the NWS meeting room.
To book: Contact us on admin@nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk.

 

Come Write with Me! Workshop: Editing Your Prose

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I write a fair amount. I blog, I write articles, I write short stories, etc.

What you may not know is that I also edit. I’m a development editor: I take on manuscripts for the publishing house that stand out in some way, but are still in the potential stage, meaning there’s something promising, but it isn’t actually ready for publication yet.

So the author and I work through these manuscripts piece by piece, looking at various aspects of craft. It’s a learning process, and it’s not an easy one. But by the end, the author has learned loads, and can apply that knowledge to their next manuscript.

I’m telling you this because I’m going to be leading a writing workshop at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio. Editing Your Prose (June 13-July 18, Weds nights at 7pm) is for folks who have a manuscript/story, but are having difficulty self-editing. Over the six-week course, we’ll be going through various aspects of editing, including point of view, structural gaps and dialogue issues.

You have to have a piece of work to play with, and it’s an in-person class, not an on-line class. (If there’s enough interest, I may run an on-line class later in the year).

But if you’d like to join (and I really, really hope you will!) contact admin@nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk or call 0115 959 7947.

Hope to see you there!