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OWC 306 B — Novel IV: Manuscript Preparedness

Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
Duration: 10 weeks
Location: Online
Date(s): Jan 14—Mar 18
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
Class Meeting Time: 12:00—1:00 pm (PT)
Tuition: $1240
   
Refund Deadline: Jan 17
 
Unit(s): 2
   
Enrollment Limit: 14
  
Status: Registration opens Dec 2, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Winter
Day: Tuesdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 12:00—1:00 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jan 14—Mar 18
Unit(s): 2
Location: Online
 
Tuition: $1240
 
Refund Deadline: Jan 17
 
Instructor(s): Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
 
Grade Restriction: Letter grade only
 
Enrollment Limit: 14
 
Recording Available: Yes
 
Status: Registration opens Dec 2, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Course Prerequisite: Students must have completed OWC 305: "Novel III." This course is not open to the public, but rather by admission only. For more information on the Online Writing Certificate Program and its application process, please click here.

This last core course will allow students to make sure their manuscript is in the best shape possible. The focus will be on drafting missing sections, redrafting chapters that workshops in the previous courses have shown to be problematic, performing line editing, or taking on any other activities the instructor and student feel will best advance the completion of the manuscript. Students will each create an individualized plan of action during the first week, then be placed into small groups where the instructor will facilitate the exchange of significant sections of the manuscripts in progress. Chat and bulletin boards will allow students to receive support from both the instructor and their peers on process and good work habits, and to exchange words of encouragement. The goal is for each student to enter the One-on-One Tutorial having already received the feedback of several peer readers.

WENDY NELSON TOKUNAGA
Author

Wendy Nelson Tokunaga is the author of Midori by Moonlight, Love in Translation, Falling Uphill, His Wife and Daughters, and the self-published novel No Kidding, which received a Writer’s Digest award. She’s also written the nonfiction book Marriage in Translation: Foreign Wife, Japanese Husband and the short story collection Postcards from Tokyo. Her new novel, Brenda Barker’s Next Chapter, will be published in 2027. Tokunaga received an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco.

Textbooks for this course:

(Required) James Scott Bell, Revision and Self-Editing for Publication, 2nd Edition (ISBN 978-1599637068)