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        The Pajama Seminars: Pushing Your Novel Across the Finish Line with Deb Olin Unferth

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        The Pajama Seminars: Pushing Your Novel Across the Finish Line with Deb Olin Unferth
        Instructor: Deb Olin Unferth
        Categories Creative Writing, Fiction, Online Classes, Single-Session Tags Novel, Pajama Seminars

        SOLD OUT! Bring your novel beyond a messy draft to completion.

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        You’ve got 300 pages of your novel. Maybe it’s your first draft, maybe it’s your second. You’ve got the vision, the characters, a plot, sort of. It’s got good parts, but some parts are rickety, and others are driving you crazy.

        In this two-hour online seminar, Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8) will talk in a small group about ways to bring your novel beyond a messy draft to completion. We’ll discuss different methods of organizing and outlining, how to solve that one unsolvable problem (no, it’s not a fatal flaw!), when to ditch a character and when to save them, how your one-sentence pitch can also help you write the darn story, and other ways to get your novel into shape and ready to send out. We’ll have time for questions, too. Come as you like! Deb will be wearing her PJs.

        This class can be taken as a standalone or as a part 2, following Rebecca Makkai’s “Get Your Dang Novel Going,” about pounding out that first draft.

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        Start Date

        March 24

        Day(s) of the Week

        Tuesday

        Location

        Zoom (online)

        Class Times

        7:00pm – 9:00pm

        Genre

        Novel

        Price

        $55

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        Deb Olin Unferth

        Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8 and the story collection Wait Till You See Me Dance. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, the New York Times, and McSweeney’s. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Texas in Austin, where she teaches for the Michener Center for Fiction and the New Writers Project.

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