Is your manuscript tired and worn out? Could it use a massage, or perhaps a full-on retreat? Would it benefit from going to summer camp? If so, I suggest you air it out at one of the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops. And no, I’m not in cahoots with SFU. I just think writers might want to know these courses exist.
Many of these classes are new for 2010. Some would be more appealing to an editor such as myself than to a writer, but you just never know what might be of interest to an author slaving over a hot keyboard. More summer workshops are mentioned in my earlier Zen Blog post, How Do You Write and Publish a Book?
Screenwriting: an Interactive Workshop July 16 (new)
Finding the Funny: Humour with a “U” July 17 (new)
The Secrets of Syntax July 7 (new)
Authors and Editors: The Partnership and Process July 9
Usage: Woes and Myths July 23
Fundamentals of Grammar July 21
Punctuation and Mechanics July 22
Find out more about these courses at sfu.ca/pubworks.
Related Zen Blog posts:
How Do You Write and Publish a Book?
Hi Marlene,
I so enjoyed my “writing summer camp” last summer. Plus you get to meet lots of great people – and talk endlessly about stuff that would bore your friends and family members to death. As a writer, I actually got a whole lot out of the editing classes as well. Helps to know how editors think…if one could ever claim to know such a thing.
Love the blog.
Deryn
Thanks, Deryn.
Yes, I loved our Editing Immersion Workshop too. I wish they offered a follow-up version, because I’d take it.
I agree. It does help to see things from another person’s perspective. For example, it is good to understand how vulnerable a writer might feel after getting his/her marked-up manuscript back from the editor.
Thanks for checking in. Hope things are well in the Interior.
Cheers,
Marlene