January 30 - March 27, 2025
The Revision Challenge: From Draft to Polished
Marshall D'Avary Hall Room 321 • 10 MacKay Drive Room 321 Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3 Organized by University of New Brunswick College of Extended Learning
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About this event
Start the challenge with a flawed piece; end with a much readier-to-be-published work. If you started writing but got lost in the middle, or wrote a novel but aren’t satisfied, or wrote a novella or a nonfiction work but are nervous about sharing, then this course is for you! The Revision Challenge aims to teach how to get the best out of your stories when you’re working on your own. The challenge begins with Big Picture matters and concentrates on one element at a time. (Grammar’s not on the list!) We’ll dive into themes, scenes, descriptions, characters and more during class, and you’ll apply the principles to the rest of your manuscript at home each week (2 to 3 hours depending on the length of what you’re revising). Lots of discussions. Before class starts, please submit the first 2500 words of a novella or a novel you wrote so the instructor gets a glimpse of your style. Materials notebook, pens, highlighters, coloured markers, cue cards or post-its, stickers, loose paper, scissors, tape, your manuscript