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Classes at the SF Writers Grotto: For Winter 2012, Janis will be teaching the following class at the SF Writers Grotto (Second & Bryant Streets). To sign up, email Janis by clicking here.
Workshopping the Novel, 8 Wednesday evenings beginning January 25, $485
Description: This 8 week workshop is designed to
give novel writers the 3 things they need most; useful feedback, a
willing audience for their work, and deadlines. Plus enough discussion
of craft each week to help make them better writers.
Each week we will look at the work of 4 writers in the class,
concentrating on what works, places the writing can be deepened, how the
story is being pushed forward, and what does and doesn’t make us want
to keep reading. While we’ll be focusing on individual students each
week, I’ll be sure to bring up plenty of up craft points and writing
techniques that will apply to all the writers in the room. I’ll also be
suggesting lots of exercises and experiments meant to help everyone go
deeper into their own work.
The goal of this class is to help everyone learn how to be a better
reader of his or her own work, and to generate a lot of new writing.
Over the course of the 8 weeks, each student will have the opportunity
to be workshopped at least twice.
This class is equally appropriate to writers who are just
beginning a book-length work of fiction, as well as those who are in the
final stages of revision. Class size will be limited.
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Editing Services
Janis Cooke Newman also provides editing and consulting services for writers, at both an hourly and flat fee basis.
To contact her about editing, click here.
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