Want to move from the bottom of the slush pile to must-read?
Take your novel, short story, memoir or flash fiction to the next level!
So you’ve finished your draft and now it’s time to edit and rewrite - but what to cut?
Beginner’s Guide Writing Workshops are excited to present this LIVE streaming workshop with award-winning writer/editor Lee Murray.
In this practical half-day session, Lee presents her tips and strategies for whipping your manuscript into shape and making your prose pop. Find out what to cut and why.
Participants are free to bring along a work in progress (and a red pen).
And you can join us online from anywhere!
Facilitators: Lee Murray, Presented by Kathryn Burnett
Participants will:
Learn how to rework earlier drafts into stronger new material.
Understand the hows and whys of the editing/rewriting process
Learn valuable and practical editing skills
Glean insights into the editing process from a pro.
Lee Murray is a multi-award-winning writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror (Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows) and a three-time Bram Stoker Award® nominee. Her works include the Taine McKenna military thrillers (Severed Press, Australia), and Kiwi supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra, co-written with Dan Rabarts (Raw Dog Screaming Press, USA), debut short fiction collection Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well, Australia), as well as several books for children and youth. She is proud to have edited fourteen speculative works, including award-winning titles Baby Teeth: Bite Sized Tales of Terror and At the Edge (with Dan Rabarts), Te Kōrero Ahi Kā (with Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton) and Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press, USA).
She is the co-founder of Young New Zealand Writers, a group established to provide development and publishing opportunity for youth writers, and the Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction Writers, and she is HWA Mentor of the Year for 2019. In February 2020, Lee was made an Honorary Literary Fellow in the New Zealand Society of Authors Waitangi Day Honours. Lee lives over the hill from Hobbiton in New Zealand’s sunny Bay of Plenty where she dreams up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock.
Read more at www.leemurray.info | Follow @leemurraywriter