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HOW TO BE YOUR OWN BEST EDITOR

INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Kastner

DATE: October 1 - 24,2009  (3 weeks, 2 sessions per week)

COST: $25 ($30 for non-Pennwriters members)

REGISTER:   REGISTRATION CLOSED       

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Have you ever written a short story or novel and wondered if it was done? Have you made revisions and thought you were finished, but then realized once you started to send the piece out that it needed work?

In this online course, Lisa Kastner will pull from her own writing experience as well as proven prescriptions of industry greats such as Noah Lukeman, Sol Stein, Tim Esaias, and Nancy Zafris. Even if you participate in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November, you will discover how to make whatever novel you produce publishable. You will learn:
 

* New ways to look at your fiction and creative non-fiction writing with a fresh eye

* Clearly define your next revision steps to make your work sing  

* Save yourself time and manuscript rejection 

* Eliminate unneeded sentences and words 

* Easily analyze characters and plots like a pro  

* Get a clear roadmap to the revision process
 

As an added bonus with the course, you'll receive a FREE Editing Resource List of the best advice on improving and revising your writing! 

Pennwriters Online Courses have very high satisfaction ratings—read our testimonials! Revise your story like an editor and get it published fast. Enroll Now.

(Note: This is not a grammar and punctuation class. This course will look at fiction writing like an editor, not like a proof reader.)

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Lisa D. Kastner is President of Pennwriters Inc., and founder of the popular Philadelphia and Valley Forge/King of Prussia Pennwriters Critique Groups, and the Running Wild Writers Community. She is a published fiction writer, former journalist for the Philadelphia Theatre Review and Delaware County Times, and a former features editor. In 2007, Lisa was featured among up-and-coming Philadelphia writers in Fresh Lines @ Fresh Nine, a public reading hosted by Gross McCleaf Art Gallery. She is an alumna of The Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, Kenyon Writers Workshop, University of Pennsylvania's Conference for Writers, and the Rittenhouse Writers Group (RWG). For more information on Lisa Kastner, visit www.lisadianekastner.blogspot.com

* For more information on this course, contact Nate Hardy, InternetActivities Coordinator. 

If you must mail in your registration and payment, send payment at least one week before the course starts using the mail form at this link.