Writers
Craft and Critique
Receive valuable feedback about your work-in-progress that can help to shape the rest of your novel.
Member$321.00 (any noted materials fee included) |
Guest$401.00 (any noted materials fee included) |
Tuition Assistance and Other Policies
Meeting Times
- Sat, 4/5/2025 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
- Sat, 5/3/2025 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sat, 4/5/2025 - Sat, 5/3/2025
About
Receive honest feedback and encouragement in a supportive environment as we discuss the first 8,000-10,000 words of the novel you're working on. New and experienced writers reviewing one another’s work benefits everyone and adds perspective to your own work, whether this is your first manuscript or you’ve got writer’s block.
We'll cover such topics as pacing, character development, dialogue, plot, and whether or not the story grabs the reader enough for them to want to keep reading. We'll allow time to go over basics before spending time on each person’s work-in-progress. The virtual follow-up session will review each other's changes and address new questions or thoughts.
Since this may include a student's first novel, the only expectation is that manuscripts be in a readable PDF format, with proper spelling, grammar, spacing and punctuation. It will be shared with the other students one month before the class to give everyone time to read each other's manuscripts.
Details
- Before the class (by March 8), you be asked to send a PDF of the first 8,000-10,000, or 20-25 double-spaced pages of your novel to the instructor.
- The instructor will share these PDFs with all students, and you should come prepared to provide feedback on the manuscripts.
- Bring your laptop with digital copies of the manuscripts, or bring hard copies (your preference).
- On the first day of class, (April 5), we'll meet in person in the Writer's Studio. On the second day (May 3), we'll meet online.
- We'll take a morning break, a lunch break and an afternoon break. You can bring food if you want. There is a refrigerator and microwave on the lower level.
Class Policies
BARN Policies
- View BARN's Cancellation and Refund Policy.
- Tuition Assistance is available. Fill out the application before registering.
- BARN is committed to accessibility. We try to make accommodations when requested; the earlier you contact us, the more likely we can help. Please email accessibility@bainbridgebarn.org to find out more or request an accommodation.
- Sensory Statement: Makerspaces like BARN can be noisy and cluttered, smell strongly, and have bright or flickering lights. BARN is not an allergen-free facility. If you have concerns, please email info@bainbridgebarn.org.
Instructors or Guides
Lurline McGregor
Since then she has focused on writing, and has been a regular contributor to Hana Hou, the Hawaiian Airlines inflight magazine, and Ka Pili Kai, Hawai?i Sea Grant?s science magazine. She has been producing and editing podcasts of oral histories from the University of Hawai?i Center for Oral Histories, which have been featured regularly on Hawai?i Public Radio. Her second novel, Waking In A Sea Of Dreams is in final production at the publisher and is due out this spring. She is working on her third novel in this series.
Ms. McGregor is an avid waterwoman, and most of the trophies on her shelf are for canoe paddling, a sport she has embraced and excelled at since the early 1990’s.
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