We believe you don’t get to be this age without living through some profound, magical, disturbing, transformative moments.
To help you bring your great story to light, we are offering a variety of writing seminars with top authors through the fall. We certainly know the writers who know how to fill a heart and turn a phrase and make someone pee a little in her pants and they can teach you do the same.
How to Edit Yourself with Tiffany Yates Martin
Wed. Oct. 21st
$85
7 pm ET, 6 CT, 5 MT, 4 PT
Session will run for approximately 2 hours.
CLASS SIZE: Minimum 10 students.
NextTribe members get a $20 discount on the price. Write info@NextTribe.com for the discount code. If you’re not a member, you can join here.
Tiffany Yates Martin is the author of Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing. This workshop is a detailed overview on how to edit your own work and offers concrete, practical techniques for approaching a revision. Based on more than twenty-five years of working closely with authors as an editor, Tiffany has developed a playbook of techniques to help authors approach story revisions—even huge ones—in a manageable way that yields clear results for their stories.
A left-brain approach to right-brain creativity, this workshop offers even the least analytical writer the tools she needs to tackle the toughest of edits and hone manuscripts into tight, polished shape with tips like:
· Gaining objectivity—the first step to assessing your own work
· Practical steps for approaching revisions (triage)
· Evaluating the evaluation: how to handle feedback and critique
· Tips, tricks, and tools (X-rays, arcs, and asking the right questions)
· How to train your editor brain—even when you aren’t writing
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How to Start and Maintain a Happy, Healthy Writers’ Group with Meredith Maran
Saturdays: Nov. 7, 14, 21
$150
Each session will start at 8 pm ET, 7 CT, 6 MT, 5 PT and last 2 hours.
CLASS SIZE: Minimum 10 students
Members will receive a $25 discount. Write info@NextTribe.com for the discount code. If you’re not a member, you can join here.
Whether published or yet-to-be-published, every writer can benefit from collaboration with a jury of their peers: a group of writers who offer honest encouragement, the magic combination of critique and support. This course with Meredith Maran will address the issues that keep writers from getting a group off the ground, and the issues that keep the group from living up to its full potential, and the issues that cause too many writers’ groups to fall apart.
• How to attract, screen, and recruit the perfect mix of writers for the group
• How to custom-structure the group so it works best for the writers in it
• Learning the art of honest encouragement, critiquing and supporting each member to help them achieve their best work
• How to balance general discussions of craft, publishing trends, and such practical matters as finding an agent—with specific workshopping of group members’ work
• How to deal constructively with inter-group tensions, competitiveness, and conflict
In each session, a different member of Meredith’s own writing group will make a brief presentation about how the group works for her, and will take questions from the students.
Also in each session, the students will break into small groups to practice forming and running the writers’ group of their dreams.
The sessions will be one week apart, with homework assigned and reported on in each succeeding session. Those students who are ready to form a writing group will be guided to do so by the end of the three weeks.
For a separate fee, Meredith will be available to consult with and/or lead writers’ groups that form as a result of this workshop.
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