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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Get Your Book Unstuck: How to Fall Back in Love with Your Manuscript
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\n\n\nFor Memoirist \n\n\n\nYou 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. \n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this interactive three-hour live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER what’s still alive in your manuscript and use those moments as your entry point back into the work\n\n\n\nLEARN to treat revision as exploration rather than correction\, so the process feels generative instead of draining\n\n\n\nEXPLORE concrete strategies for experimenting with structure\, perspective\, and form\, and shake loose new possibilities\n\n\n\nRECONNECT with the heat that compelled you to tell this story and use that energy to move your draft into its next evolution\n\n\n\nLEAVE with renewed excitement about your manuscript and a concrete plan for what to work on next\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\ndread opening their manuscript instead of looking forward to it\n\n\n\nfeel stuck in a cycle of revision that isn’t moving the work forward\n\n\n\nwant to approach their manuscript differently but aren’t sure what that looks like\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA 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.  \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“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!” \n\n\n\n“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!” \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe 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. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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