Revising Your Novel to the Next Level
10 Weeks • with Dariel Suarez • Intermediate / Advanced
Available spots
Class Description
You’ve ventured into the wonderfully terrifying process of drafting a novel. Congratulations! But as the next phase begins, questions arise: How do you know what needs improvement? What’s the best approach to make it better? What if revision drags? Whose feedback should you implement? In this ten-week workshop, we will aim to clarify the answer to these questions and leave you with a clear revision path for your manuscript. During our time together, will focus on the layers of the revisions process—from diagnosis to strategy to implementation—with an eye toward improving your manuscript while staying true to the original vision. Each week, we will discuss a different novel excerpt as a way to identify what tends to be effective on the page, the elements and techniques you can glean, and how you should deploy them in your own draft. We will workshop up to 50 pages (two separate 25-page installments) of your novel in class, with written feedback provided in advance. At the end of the course, we will do an overview of agent queries and indie publisher submissions, as well as a wrap-up on our revision conversations. Please note that you will be required to complete the weekly readings outside of class, as well as reading classmates' pages, and come prepared for discussion and workshop each week. LEVEL: This workshop is for writers with some experience ("intermediate / advanced"), although we are leaving this open to self-assessment. If you have been working on a novel, have worked through revisions, have workshop experience and want to work seriously (both on your own manuscript and in giving feedback to classmates), you are welcome to sign up! DARIEL SUAREZ is the author of The Playwright's House, finalist for the Rudolfo Anaya Fiction Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, and A Kind of Solitude, winner of the Spokane Prize. A City of Boston inaugural Artist Fellow, Dariel has been awarded the First Lady Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize and an International Latino Book Award. His prose has appeared in Best American Essays, The Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, LitHub, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among others. Dariel earned his MFA in Fiction at Boston University and now resides in the MetroWest area with his wife and daughter. MEMBER DISCOUNT: ***If you're a PVWW Member, use your Member Discount Code upon checkout! If you're not a member and interested, email us at admin@pioneervalleywriters.com, with subject "Membership."
Cancellation Policy
If you withdraw from a workshop TEN DAYS OR MORE before the start of the class: You'll receive credit toward another workshop (minus 10% transaction fee) OR a full refund (minus 10% transaction fee). The transaction fee is non-refundable for PVWW, so this is something we must apply to all refunds and transfers. Please note that this fee applies even in the case of accidental registration. If you withdraw from a workshop nine days before the start of the class up until 48 hours before: You'll receive a refund minus 20%. If you withdraw from a workshop less than 48 hours before the start of a class or after the class has begun: We cannot offer credit or any refund. If you are absent on the day of your workshop or miss it for any reason, we are unable to offer any kind of refund or credit. If we have to cancel a class you have paid for, you will receive a full refund, without the service charge deducted. For our full listing of policies, visit www.PioneerValleyWriters.Com, Policies page (under Home). To withdraw and receive a partial refund according to the above, please get in touch with us at admin@pioneervalleywriters.com
Contact Details
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Florence, Northampton, MA, USA