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Business 163: Fewer Rejections Part 2

• Prerequisite: Business 161
  
  
• Average Time Commitment per Week: 5-10 hours
  
  
• Time to Complete Course: 5 Weeks
  
  
• Difficulty (1-5) [1 = Beginner, 5=Advanced]: 5
  
  
• Maximum Class Size: 25
  
  
• Course Description: A way to handle your book-length work, providing valid reasons for agent/editor rejections, by an award-winning author, former editor and agent.
  
  This session of the course gives an in-depth look at middle and ending scenes and goes right through synopsis, cover letters and preparing your novel for submission to agents and editors.
  
  
• Method of Presentation/Instruction: The participants will read given chapters and do a variety of exercises, using their own works, in preparation for eventual submissions.
  
  
• Required Resources (texts, etc.): No More Rejections by Alice Orr

• Session B
  
  
  • Week 1: Taking Your Scene All the Way
  • Week 2: Sagging Middles
  • Week 3: Style
  • Week 4: Endings
  • Week 5: It’s Never Over
    

  
  
  

• Classroom A
• Classroom B

Course developed by: Dorice Nelson

Facilitated by: Dorice Nelson and Peer Group