Are you ready to get your chapter into shape?
In this facilitated 10-week Book Chapter Shortcut, which runs from May 19 to July 21, you'll work alongside a cohort of authors to revise a messy draft into a solid, argument-driven book chapter. Through practical, manageable prompts, you'll learn how to plan structural revisions and implement them. And along the way, you'll develop writing and revision strategies that fit into your life—doable within your schedule, adapted to your writing habits, and responsive to your source material.
The core of the course will be our weekly 90-minute Zoom meetings, which will be held on Tuesdays from 1 to 2:30pm Eastern. I'll also offer one bonus (optional) coworking session per week at a time TBD by the group. And we'll have a discussion board and a library of video clips, plus I'll post recordings of the meetings, so you can easily catch up if you have to miss a session.
**Use the code EARLYBIRD through May 3 for a 15% discount!**
This course is designed for authors who have existing writing (notes, a dissertation chapter, conference papers, seminar papers) and need to revise that writing into a monograph chapter. It is NOT designed for authors who merely have an idea for a chapter but have not yet written material.
I can't guarantee that you'll have a finished draft by the end of the course, since a lot depends on how much time you have to spend on it outside of our weekly meetings. But we'll work in a way that will allow you to tackle the biggest issues first, and save the smaller ones for later—so even after the course is finished, you'll be able to keep working with the tools you've acquired. And because you'll have permanent access to the materials after the course is done, you can go back at any time and catch up or review.
"After feeling stuck, I learned to trust my initial idea/interest in my topic again by following the very actionable steps proposed by Katelyn and Allison. From the overall framing and research questions to troubleshooting points of tension/weaknesses in my argument and even considering what the project is NOT, Katelyn and Allison's workshop provided the guidance we all needed regardless of whether this was our first or second project or even third."
"This workshop was really helpful in giving a method to the madness (or least what's how working on a big project feels to me sometimes). The concrete exercises, step by step instructions, opportunities for feedback in the Friday writing hour, and the sense of community was all really inspiring. I felt like I was very in control of the process and my progress in ways that have fundamentally changed (for the better!) how I work."
"I have been talking so much to my colleagues about how the structure of this workshop and its content is so helpful—breaking down the work into smaller tasks and actionable steps that feel doable in the time span."
"I learned a system for revising a chapter that helped me observed my capacity or effectiveness through each step."
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