SEMINAR | Get Your Book Unstuck: How to Fall Back in Love with Your Manuscript
June 20 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Reconnect with the energy, spark, and joy that compelled you to tell this story in the first place — and discover the strategies to move your manuscript toward publication.
For Memoirist
You needed to tell this story. There was heat in it—urgency and the conviction that you have something important to say. But somewhere in the months or years of drafting and revising, that heat got harder to find. Now, sitting down with the manuscript feels like a chore, and the work that used to excite you feels like pulling teeth.
This is one of the most common and least talked-about challenges in long-form writing: not a craft problem, but a relationship problem. When revision starts to feel like spinning your wheels rather than making meaningful progress, resistance builds. Once that resistance takes hold, the deep, generative work a draft needs to evolve becomes nearly impossible.
This seminar will change that. We’ll explore how to reconnect with the heat that compelled you to write this story, how to treat revision like play again, and how to experiment with your material in fresh and exciting ways. You’ll leave the seminar with a renewed relationship to your manuscript and a concrete plan for what comes next.
In this interactive three-hour live seminar, you will:
- DISCOVER what’s still alive in your manuscript and use those moments as your entry point back into the work
- LEARN to treat revision as exploration rather than correction, so the process feels generative instead of draining
- EXPLORE concrete strategies for experimenting with structure, perspective, and form, and shake loose new possibilities
- RECONNECT with the heat that compelled you to tell this story and use that energy to move your draft into its next evolution
- LEAVE with renewed excitement about your manuscript and a concrete plan for what to work on next
This course is ideal for writers who…
- dread opening their manuscript instead of looking forward to it
- feel stuck in a cycle of revision that isn’t moving the work forward
- want to approach their manuscript differently but aren’t sure what that looks like
Closed captioning is available. ✔
Think you might miss class? No worries, replays will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔
ABOUT YOUR Instructor
A lively and insightful speaker who brings new energy to CRAFT TALKS writers, Katie Bannon is a writer, editor, and educator whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, ELLE Magazine, NPR, Newsweek, Narratively, and more. Her memoir manuscript, which charts her journey as a compulsive hair puller, was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, she holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Emerson College. She is a developmental editor who loves working with nonfiction writers to find the “story” behind the “situation” of their memoirs and essays. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two cats.
Student Testimonials
“Katie is the best writing instructor I have ever had. Her presentation was impeccable. She provided an abundance of ideas, details, examples, and information. In fact, the class was overflowing with information. I have nothing but praise for Katie and the class content.”
“Katie was an amazing instructor. She explained core concepts with clarity and ease, provided excellent examples and writing samples, and created a very supportive learning environment. The class truly exceeded my expectations!”
“Holy moly, this was a superb class. Instructor was well-prepared with lots of valuable and well-organized information and ideas. I have already begun applying some of the tools from class to revise—and what a difference it’s making!”
THE FINE PRINT
We understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers.
Before the class, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee.
Please keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins.
Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com
