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OWC 306 E — Novel IV: Manuscript Preparedness

Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Liza Monroy
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: 1:30—2:30 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: 1:30—2:30 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jan 14—Mar 18
Unit(s): 2
Location: Online
 
Tuition: $1240
 
Refund Deadline: Jan 17
 
Instructor(s): Liza Monroy
 
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.

LIZA MONROY
Author

Liza Monroy is the author of the forthcoming novel The Distractions, the novel Mexican High, the memoir The Marriage Act, and the essay collection Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, O, Marie Claire, Longreads, Newsweek, Self, and Jezebel, among others, and they have been widely anthologized. She received an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia School of the Arts and has taught writing at Columbia and UC Santa Cruz.

Textbooks for this course:

(Recommended) Renni Brown & Dave King, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (ISBN 978-0060545697)
(Recommended) Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts (ISBN 978-1641293419)