Revising and Pitching with Focus: the Thesis of the Novel Zoom Seminar, Monday, August 21st, 2023
Monday, August 21st, 2023
Now Enrolling!
Live Seminar via Zoom from 6:30PM - 7:30PM EST
Open to All writers!
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Taught by Meg Eden, the author of five poetry chapbooks, the novel Post-High School Reality Quest (2017), the poetry collection Drowning in the Floating World (2020), and the forthcoming novel-in-verse Good Different, a JLG Gold Standard Selection (Scholastic, 2023). She is also a participating author with the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program.
Once you've written a draft, it can be difficult to figure out where to go next. A range of people will provide feedback, but who is right? How do you go about discerning what to edit and what to keep the same?
To effectively edit, it’s critical to identify a novel’s underlying argument—it’s heart. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the “thesis statement” approach to editing, looking at examples of novels’ “thesis statements,” as well as providing exercises to help you identify and hone in on your novel’s thesis.
- You want to revise your novel but don’t know where to start.
- You know your novel needs to be condensed but aren’t sure how to decide what is cut and what is kept.
- You want to strengthen your pitch for your novel
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Class is on Monday, August 21st, 2023, via Zoom from 6:30PM EST - 7:30PM EST
If you have questions, please use the Chat Button or contact us via email HERE.
Instructor Meg Eden is a 2020 Pitch Wars mentee. She is the author of five poetry chapbooks, the novel Post-High School Reality Quest (2017), the poetry collection Drowning in the Floating World (2020), and the forthcoming novel-in-verse Good Different, a JLG Gold Standard Selection (Scholastic, 2023). She is also a participating author with the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program. Her work is published or forthcoming in magazines, including Writer’s Digest, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, and CV2. Meg received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland College Park.