Welcome to Fiction Boot Camp (Substantive Editing for Fiction 401).
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Fiction Boot Camp is taught by Karin Beery.
This course is four weeks long (plus weeks for intro and conclusion); it begins on August 24, 2020, and runs until September 28, 2020.
The forum for this course is via Google Groups, which is an online discussion board. You will be automatically added to the Google Group and receive posts via your email (the address that you used to register for this course). All communication will be held within this Google Group. You can email the Google Group from your inbox by using the email: fiction-boot-camp@googlegroups.com. You may also access the page via this direct URL: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fiction-boot-camp.
The instructor will post a topic (via the Google Group) every Monday for the duration of the course that correlates to each week’s lesson. During the week, you are encouraged to ask questions, make comments, and reply to other students’ questions and comments. The forum (Google Group) can be an amazing tool to get to know one another as fellow editors, encourage one another, share information, and submit homework assignments. The more active you are on the forum, the more this course benefits all participants.
Below are the lessons for the course. Please click on the links to view or download. The discussion in the forum will be based on each week’s lesson. Please only post regarding that week’s lesson.
August 24—Welcome, Introductions, Lesson 1
August 31—Lesson 2
September 7—Lesson 3
September 14—Lesson 4
September 21—Conclusion and Evaluation
September 28—Last day to turn in homework assignments
October 5—All homework assignments returned
October 12—Google Group closes; access to Course Page closes
These lessons are for your use only. They are copyrighted information. All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution, all or part, is prohibited.
Please note that your access to this course page will end two weeks after the conclusion of the course.
Feel free to contact us at any time if you have questions.