An intensive course designed to help you survive the next draft of your work-in-progress.
Over six evening workshops, join established editor, Laurel Cohn, as she guides you through a structural edit of your work-in-progress. Laurel takes participants through her five-step approach to structural editing, providing strategies and tools to facilitate the process, and exploring the challenging inner terrain that underlies critical engagement with your own work.
The course is designed with time between sessions to practice the concepts covered. Committing to the process will reward you with deeper insight into your manuscript and clarity about how to approach the next draft.
You will hone your writing and editing skillset through practical exercises, group discussions, critique sessions, and homework in the key areas listed below:
- An understanding of what structural editing entails.
- Specific tools for writers to undertake a structural edit of their own work following a step-by-step approach.
- Familiarisation with synopsis writing as a development tool.
- Strategies for chapter and scene outlines.
- An appreciation of the emotional ups and downs of manuscript development.
This course is best suited for intermediate writers who have completed at least one draft of their work-in-progress.
This is a 6-part online course with a focus on craft and sustainability; it will be hosted via Zoom.
Course dates
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5:30pm – 8:30pm, Tuesday 8 July 2025
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5:30pm – 8:30pm, Tuesday 22 July 2025
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5:30pm – 8:30pm, Tuesday 5 August 2025
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5:30pm – 8:30pm, Tuesday 19 August 2025
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5:30pm – 8:30pm, Tuesday 2 September 2025
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5:30pm – 8:30pm, Tuesday 16 September 2025
All times Brisbane time, AEST.
