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So you've finished the first draft, now what? with Jaqueline Snowe

Craft So you've finished the first draft, now what? with Jaqueline Snowe

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Beginning
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Register by August 24th and save $5, use code FIRSTDRAFTSNOWE2020 at checkout!
Category
  1. Characters
  2. Description/Setting
  3. Editing
  4. Structure
  5. GMC
  6. Plotting
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FIRSTDRAFTSNOWE2020
You've finished the first draft, so what's next? Learn how to battle the show vs tell issue and discover easy self-editing tips to help that draft sparkle.
Syllabus
Week 1: learn about show vs tell and read commons misuses of it. Participants would go through five practice scenarios of rewording paragraphs in a chat-like forum and end with each member providing a one page example from their work, where they feel they struggle with it, for feedback.

Week 2: Easy self editing tricks! The lesson would go over five key areas where writers struggle in the first draft: filter words, clutch words, too much stage direction, word echoes, and dialogue tags. Participants would then do a self-check on their draft where go through a list of errors and document the easy fixes.

Week 3: Writers edit and adjust their first chapter of their story and submit to instructor for feedback!
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Author
jaquelinesnowe
Start date
Aug 31, 2020 at 9:00 AM
End date
Sep 20, 2020 at 1:00 AM
Registration end date
Sep 2, 2020 at 1:00 AM
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