Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

This skills-based module aims to equip you with the tools and strategies to edit and shape your work with a view to submitting for publication, self-publishing and/or entering competitions. You may also wish to revise and redraft your work for private use.   
  

Course Description

This skills-based module aims to equip you with the tools and strategies to edit and shape your work with a view to submitting for publication, self-publishing and/or entering competitions. You may also wish to revise and redraft your work for private use.   
  
The course will cover primarily fiction, as in short stories and novels as well as poetry. Some of the advice will also help with creative non-fiction, as in memoirs and autobiographical accounts.   
  
Students will learn how to effectively evaluate and assess areas of their own work which need attention, whether punctuation, grammar, look on the page, to more in depth editing decisions such as plot, character development and future destination of the work and its readership. Skills such as patience, adaptability, attention to detail and critical assessment will be considered and developed.