Self-Editing Your Manuscript: The Structural Edit

Name: Self-Editing Your Manuscript: The Structural Edit
Start: 2024-04-13T09:30:00+08:00
End: 2024-04-13T11:30:00+08:00
Location: Centre for Stories

Before you submit your manuscript, how do you make sure it’s the best it can be? Join Jess Gately as she teaches you how to assess elements of style, character, plot and pacing in your own novel by yourself.

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Apr 13, 9:30 am - 11:30 am

Centre for Stories

Before you submit your manuscript, how do you make sure it’s the best it can be? Join freelance editor Jess Gately and she teaches you how to assess elements of style, character, plot and pacing in your own novel by yourself, in this workshop designed to help you in the initial stages of self-editing.

This workshop is ideal for writers who already have at least a first draft of a full-length manuscript or short story completed, and are looking at progressing to the next stage of editing and pitching. However writers of all levels are welcome if interested in learning more about editing generally.

This workshop is part 1 of a 2-part course. It will be followed up by a second workshop from Jess Gately in May on copy-editing.

WHAT TO BRING & CATERING

A notebook and pen or note-taking device, a smartphone with access to the internet and social media apps, and either a short sample of one of your own writing/manuscript sample, or a sample from a favourite book.

You are welcome to bring your own breakfast or snacks. Tea and coffee are available for free. If you have any allergies, please let us know at info@centreforstories.com.

TICKETS

Starting at $15, tickets are Pay-What-You-Feel. Scroll down below to buy your ticket and secure your spot. There are also limited FREE FOR MOB tickets – available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers only.

Companion card holders are welcome, please contact us on (08) 9328 1443 or at info@centreforstories.com to organise this.

If you are experiencing financial hardship, you can contact us to arrange entry at no charge on (08) 9328 1443 or at info@centreforstories.com.

TRANSPORT AND ACCESSIBILITY

The closest car park is 6-8 Errichetti Pl, Wilson Parking. The central Perth Train Station is a 10-minute walk from Centre for Stories.

Centre for Stories is a wheelchair-accessible building. If you have other accessibility needs, please contact us at info@centreforstories.com.

PHOTOGRAPHY

By purchasing a ticket, you acknowledge you may be photographed at this event and said photos will be owned by Centre for Stories to use for our communications, marketing and reporting purposes. If you do not wish to be photographed, you must let us know at info@centreforstories.com prior to the event.

Jess Gately
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Jess Gately is a freelance publishing professional with a particular penchant for speculative fiction. She works as a structural editor and a tutor at Curtin University, is the President of Editors WA (a branch of the Institute of Professional Editors), sits on the Board for the Small Press Network of Australia, and has worked for Perth Festival as the Literature and Ideas Program Coordinator, Night Parrot Press as the Publishing Coordinator, and Fremantle Press as the Events and Projects Officer. She has been a judge for the Aurealis Awards since 2019 and her master's thesis explored the process of editing a work of speculative fiction that utilises fictional languages.

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