Cat Rambo's Blog - Posts Tagged "classes"
New Classes
Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested!
Right now I'm running a special on the online Writing F&SF Stories class that's starting this Saturday, December 1. It is six Saturday mornings, 9:30-11:30 AM PST.
I'm also offering an early sign-up rate on January and February classes. Pay by December 15 and get the early rate. It's been fun planning this round and trying to come up with some new and interesting stuff as well as repeating the successful classes. So here's the list:
Writing F&SF Short Stories
Editing 101
Flash Fiction Workshop
Literary Techniques in Speculative Fiction
Building an Online Presence for Writers
First Pages Workshop
The Art of the Book Review
What You Need to Need About Electronic Publishing
Want more details about the classes? You can find descriptions, dates, and costs on the Upcoming Classes page, where you can also sign-up to be on the mailing list!
Right now I'm running a special on the online Writing F&SF Stories class that's starting this Saturday, December 1. It is six Saturday mornings, 9:30-11:30 AM PST.
I'm also offering an early sign-up rate on January and February classes. Pay by December 15 and get the early rate. It's been fun planning this round and trying to come up with some new and interesting stuff as well as repeating the successful classes. So here's the list:
Writing F&SF Short Stories
Editing 101
Flash Fiction Workshop
Literary Techniques in Speculative Fiction
Building an Online Presence for Writers
First Pages Workshop
The Art of the Book Review
What You Need to Need About Electronic Publishing
Want more details about the classes? You can find descriptions, dates, and costs on the Upcoming Classes page, where you can also sign-up to be on the mailing list!
March/April Online Classes
Sign up by February 28 for a special deal!
Classes include:
Writing F&SF Stories
Everything You Need to Know about E-Publishing
Flash Fiction Workshop
Literary Techniques for Speculative Fiction
The Art of the Book Review
Building an Online Presence for Writers
Editing 101
See here for more details and to sign up for my mailing list - http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/upcom...
Classes include:
Writing F&SF Stories
Everything You Need to Know about E-Publishing
Flash Fiction Workshop
Literary Techniques for Speculative Fiction
The Art of the Book Review
Building an Online Presence for Writers
Editing 101
See here for more details and to sign up for my mailing list - http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/upcom...
What is the First Pages Class?
This is the online class that more people have enthused about afterwards than any other, in my experience. It’s team-taught. You give us the first 500 words of your novel. One of the instructors reads it aloud, then both discuss it.
Sounds pretty simple, no? Sure. It’s that simplicity that lets the instructors range across a wide array of tools and strategies, providing starting points for all sorts of valuable and useful discussion. Here’s some of what it allows us to provide you:
We talk about what’s built into the beginning of a book, how the contract between reader and writer is set up, and how effectively you’re doing it.
We discuss ways of engaging readers: with language, with detail, with appeal to the senses, with emotion, as well as other techniquese.
We reiterate the importance of titles and tinker (or not) with your wording.
We dip into sentence level stuff when we notice persistent patterns such as passive voice or purple prose, and more importantly, we tell you how to remedy the issue.
We discuss genre conventions and even the submission process.
And we answer the questions you have about all of those and more.
It’s as informative to listen to pieces from the other participants as it is to have your own examined. Some students have mentioned coming away with pages and pages of notes.
The next First Pages workshop is:
February 24, 9:30-11:30 AM PST
April 14, 9:30-11:30 AM PST
More details.
Sounds pretty simple, no? Sure. It’s that simplicity that lets the instructors range across a wide array of tools and strategies, providing starting points for all sorts of valuable and useful discussion. Here’s some of what it allows us to provide you:
We talk about what’s built into the beginning of a book, how the contract between reader and writer is set up, and how effectively you’re doing it.
We discuss ways of engaging readers: with language, with detail, with appeal to the senses, with emotion, as well as other techniquese.
We reiterate the importance of titles and tinker (or not) with your wording.
We dip into sentence level stuff when we notice persistent patterns such as passive voice or purple prose, and more importantly, we tell you how to remedy the issue.
We discuss genre conventions and even the submission process.
And we answer the questions you have about all of those and more.
It’s as informative to listen to pieces from the other participants as it is to have your own examined. Some students have mentioned coming away with pages and pages of notes.
The next First Pages workshop is:
February 24, 9:30-11:30 AM PST
April 14, 9:30-11:30 AM PST
More details.
What Exactly Do We Do in the Editing 101 Class?
I'm glad I've got enough students for the Editing 101 online class that starts tonight, but I'd love a couple more. Mention reading this when you mail me about the class and I'll give you a special deal. ;)
So what do we do and who is the class aimed at?
The class is aimed both at writers who want to learn to edit their work better as well as editors who want to hone their skills and learn about it as a career path.
Here's what the three two-hour sessions cover. They're spaced two weeks apart.
Developmental edit. I describe my revision process and how people can adapt it to their own. We look at examples of developmental edits, work through a checklist of items to look for, and talk about developing your own theory and process of editing.
Line and copyediting. I look at things on the sentence and paragraph level and supply a number of examples as well as working through an in-class exercise. Again, I try to provide a checklist that you can take away and use in your writing and editing.
Editors. I talk about working as an editor, and what resources are available to people who are looking for such work, as well as where people looking for slush-reading positions can find them. I also discuss the writer-editor relationship in a way that should clarify it for both sides of the equation and provide tips on making that process work more smoothly. A class exercise is designed to help you figure out story order for collections, chapbooks, anthologies, and magazine issues.
Got questions? I'd be happy to answer them.
So what do we do and who is the class aimed at?
The class is aimed both at writers who want to learn to edit their work better as well as editors who want to hone their skills and learn about it as a career path.
Here's what the three two-hour sessions cover. They're spaced two weeks apart.
Developmental edit. I describe my revision process and how people can adapt it to their own. We look at examples of developmental edits, work through a checklist of items to look for, and talk about developing your own theory and process of editing.
Line and copyediting. I look at things on the sentence and paragraph level and supply a number of examples as well as working through an in-class exercise. Again, I try to provide a checklist that you can take away and use in your writing and editing.
Editors. I talk about working as an editor, and what resources are available to people who are looking for such work, as well as where people looking for slush-reading positions can find them. I also discuss the writer-editor relationship in a way that should clarify it for both sides of the equation and provide tips on making that process work more smoothly. A class exercise is designed to help you figure out story order for collections, chapbooks, anthologies, and magazine issues.
Got questions? I'd be happy to answer them.
