The Deep Editing Series

Introducing The Deep Editing Series



Do you have a completed or nearly completed first draft manuscript?

Congratulations!

You're Amazing


Two hundred million Americans (81%) say they want to write a novel or screenplay. But only 10% actually do.


After I finished my first manuscript, I tried to edit it on my own. I moved or changes some of the words, but it didn't feel like the story was getting any better. So I started going to webinars and reading books until ten years later when I finally developed a method for revisions.


In 2019 I gave a year long series of workshops on revision. Since then, many people asked me to repeat the series. But we were in the middle of a pandemic that presented us with something we’d never seen before—Long Covid.


For 2023, I decided to commit the live presentations to video, so I can share them with you safely.


I am offering two ways to enjoy these presentations. 

On Your Own each workshop comes with

    • on a private website
    • several videos you can view when it’s convenient for you 
    • handouts 
    • writing exercises. 


With a Cohort of Other Writers on my schedule. This option includes 

    • the private website 
    • videos
    • handouts
    • writing exercises. But you also get 
    • three Ask Me Anything (AMA) internet meetings to go over writing exercises and to meet other writers 
    • 5 pages (1500 words) of your current manuscript edited by me.

The first two workshops are free to everyone so you can make sure my teaching style works for you. After February each monthly course will cost $25 On Your Own and $50 with the Cohort. If you choose to pay for the entire course at once, you get a $150 break and pay only $400 in the Cohort group, or you save $75 in the On Your Own group and pay $200 for all 13 mos of workshops.

We’ll take a top down approach so you don’t waste your time editing words on an entire chapter you end up deleting from the project. 


We’ll cover:

Mo

Title

Description

Pricing

Jan

Pre-editing

Everything you need to do BEFORE you dig in to the real editing. Computer programs and apps you might want to consider. Story Drivers, Story Structures, Main Plot Points, and introduction to “Series” (Motifs).

    • Class starts 1/9/23
    • AMA 1/16/23 11:00-12:30pm
    • AMA 1/21/23 1:00-2:30 pm
    • AMA 1/28/23 10:30 am-12:00 pm

FREE

Feb

Focus Your Story

Making your MS more manageable and focused by cutting the excess. Finding "series" in your work. Writing your Synopsis.

  • Class Starts 2/19/23
  • AMA 2/23/23 5:30-7:00 pm
  • AMA 3/4/23 1:00-2:30 pm
  • AMA 3/18/23 10:30 am-12:00 pm

FREE

TBA

Story as a Whole

Working with “Series” (motifs), Themes, different Story Structures.

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Scenes

Working with Scenes/Sequels, Special Scenes, making a “Character Driven” Scene, Linking scenes.

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

POV

Choosing a POV and a Narrative Distance, Deep POV, Causality, and Motivational-Reaction Units.

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Tension

Conflict, Emotion, Pacing, Suspense.

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Dialogue

Dialogue, Attribution, Compression, Euphonics.

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Action

Movement, Goals, Body Language, Subtext.

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Setting

All six senses, Active vs. Static description, Visceral Response, Mood.

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Thought

Internal monologue, Back Story, Exposition.

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Color Analysis

Margie Lawson’s Color Analysis, White Space

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Voice

Darlings, Rhetorical Devices, Originality

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

TBA

Final Polish

Word Searches, Backloading, Tight writing, Cadence, MS Conventions, Submission

Cohort $50

On Your Own $25

 

Register for Pre-Editing Register for Paring Down


Questions: 

C@CAlexSmith.com

(928)779-6368


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