Kirsten Bakis: Author in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Do you have part of a novel or story sitting in a drawer somewhere? Or would you like to? Sign up for my great four-session writing-and-revision workshop at Curious on Hudson! We'll workshop (constructively critique as a group) up to ten pages of your prose. Then we'll about the overall structure of your novel or story--whether you have one already drafted or you want to plan it out in this class. We'll do exercises designed to help you move it forward, you'll use techniques and strategies from the exercises to revise your pages, and then we'll workshop the revisions. It's so rewarding to take pages through revisions this way in a group, with people who have come to know and love your story there to cheer you on. To sign up, you DO have to have five to ten pages to give the class to critique. You DO NOT have to have any more than that, except for a dream that your pages will someday be a novel or story. Contact Curious on Hudson or send me an email for more info. Submissions must be sent to the class no later than Monday, October 6. Sign up today! http://curiousonhudson.com/class-details.php?id=308

New site up today: info about fiction writing classes I'm offering in Westchester, NY; and an essay on why it's hard to write: http://kirstenbakiswritingclasses.blogspot.com/

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