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| Mini-Workshop Crash Revisions |
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Presented by Holly Lisle. Here's the scenario: Well-Known-Writer Britta Brigga blows her deadline, and leaves the lead slot for her category in the month her book was to be published wide open. So your editor, who has your manuscript sitting on her desk, emails you, saying, "If you can get the revisions done for me in a week, I can get YOU into that slot---with the lead slot budget and advertising and promotion. IF you can turn the book around in a week."
This is not a hypothetical situation. It's happened to me once (and in lesser situations, where the move up was simply to a better sales month, SEVERAL times)...and it happens to everyone from beginners with their first manuscript sitting on an editor's desk, to old-timers who've published a dozen or more novels in their careers. It's the equivalent of having a star pitcher in baseball blow a rotator cuff, and being the rookie who gets The Call up from the minors to pitch in the pros.
And it happens frequently, because there are a LOT of writers who can't or won't hit their deadlines. Bad for them. Great for you. It's a fantastic opportunity to move your book into a better position to be seen. If you can do it.
In Crash Revisions, you'll learn how to do an editor's revision in seven days. And how YOU become the pro who doesn't blow deadlines.
Course Outline:
Day One
The FIRST Day: The Fast Target, and How You Build It
*What Your Editor Wants
*What You Want
*What You DON'T Have Time For
*Assumptions That Kill---Your Editor's AND Yours
*Putting It All In Order
Day Two
The NEXT THREE Days: The Focused Cut, and How You Prep It
*What You MUST Fix
*What You WANT To Fix
*What You MUST Avoid
*The Prep
*The Cut
Day Three
The LAST THREE Days: The Lightning Write-In, and How You Control It
*What You'll See
*What You Have To Ignore
*Using Target And Cut To Get What You Want
*The Type-In
*Final Moments
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| WHEN: | Mar 28 - Apr 1 | |
| COST: |
FREE for ALL PREMIUM Members!
$5 for Basic & NON-Members | |
| REGISTRATION: | *** Registration Closed*** | |
WHO:
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Holly Lisle has been writing with intent to publish for twenty-five years, and has been working as a full-time professional novelist since November of 1992, when she invited friends over, burned her nursing uniforms in her back yard, and set off on the wild adventure that has enriched and consumed her life ever since. Holly has published more than thirty novels in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, paranormal suspense, romantic suspense, and YA with Baen, Time-Warner, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Penguin-Putnam, Tor, and more, has more than a million books in print, and has novels published around the world and translated into many languages. For the last few years, along with continuing to write fiction, she's made time in her writing schedule for creating courses on writing, publishing, and revision, and her How To Think Sideways and How To Revise Your Novel courses receive rave reviews from students, and fill promptly whenever she opens the doors to accept new students. | |
| Craft, Editing, Publishing, Industry | RELATED EVENT: 2010 Writers' Boot Camp | |