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Live Editing Masterclass

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Masterclass

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$19

Location: Online (gain access to Reedsy’s event space when you register)

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📚 Overview

Want to get your writing edited by a professional? During this Monday Masterclass, editor and book coach Jules Elmore will live edit viewer-submitted passages, while sharing insights on style, voice, and novel openings that you can apply to your own writing. 

Register for instructions on how to submit your passage for consideration. We will select four pieces to feature in the live edit, taking care to represent a diverse mix of genres and styles. If you just want to watch, there's no need to submit anything — just tune in!


Schedule

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15:00 - 16:00 EDT

Live Editing with Jules Elmore

In this live editing session, you will: 

  • Get practical, line-level strategies to strengthen your prose
  • Learn how to spot and avoid common mistakes and pitfalls
  • See what editors pay attention to when evaluating manuscripts
  • Develop strategies to revise and elevate your writing

Following the live editing session, you’ll have the chance to ask questions about writing, editing, and anything else you’d like to know during a live Q&A with Jules.


Speakers

Jules Elmore

Editor and Book Coach

Jules Elmore is the author of The Amateur American (Crown) and three other pseudonymous novels. He was a New York Times Fellow at New York University, where he served as a faculty writing instructor, and a creative writing lecturer at Tulane University, where he taught workshops in fiction and memoir. A passionate story coach, polyglot musician and jiu-jitsu practitioner, Jules’s own hero-journey is to help writers launch their dreams.

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