If you’re a beginning writer and would like to get your work out there and get some feedback, this is a golden opportunity! Check it out.
After this July’s release of my non-fiction ‘Tell Me (How to Write) a Story’, the next book I’m working on is going to be a collection of excerpts from novices, in first draft, which I’ll edit into first revision and last revision samples, coaching as we go through the excerpts.
I’m titling it ‘Revision for Beginners’ and I’m calling for submissions of first draft excerpts. I expect a publication date of mid 2014.
I’m looking for any 200 words from your Work In Progress.
I am NOT looking for wonderfully polished excerpts.
The goal is to have your excerpt help others learn the art of revision.
I’ll be selecting 20 excerpts, and I’ll be editing them to a first pass stage, and then onto a further round of edits.
Each round is accompanied with coaching info and the how & why the…
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Samuel Snoek-Brown 
This is awesome!!!
Steph, you should totally do this!
It is done. I seriously need to take a break from constant school and write some stuff. I haven’t written since… Christmas. This is bad. Very, very bad.
Excellent! EJ is cool — you’ll enjoy her feedback. 🙂
I’m hardly a beginner, but I may send him something to ‘make up the numbers’. After all, my third novel is totally stuck…