ONLINE Fiction Debug: Finding—and Fixing—the Most Common Writing Flaws
8 Weeks | Wednesdays | Begins January 21, 2026 |
9am-11am PT | 10am-12pm MT | 11am-1pm CT | 12pm-2pm ET | 1pm-3pm AT
Instructor: Sandra McIntyre
MEMBER PRICE: $320.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $425.00
Getting too many ‘error messages’ with your fiction or creative non-fiction writing? As an editor, I see the same bugs again and again. Team up with me and other brave writers to learn by example how to identify the most common writing flaws, like overwriting, problems with point of view, and dreary dialogue. Using at least one short writing sample from each participant, I’ll show you how I approach fixing flaws as a professional editor, whether it’s a quick grammatical correction or interrogation of a complex writing knot. Together, we’ll find root problems and brainstorm workarounds in the name of improvement in a before-and-after format. Get professional feedback on your writing, acquire more tools for self-editing, and improve your skill in critiquing the work of others in a fun and respectful environment.
This class is an interactive online workshop using Zoom.
Sandra McIntyre is not an engineer or a software developer so, admittedly, she can take this debugging metaphor only so far. She is a writer and book editor specializing in fiction, with more than twenty years of experience both in-house and freelance. Sandra brings knowledge, creativity, and honesty to her work with writers. Her short fiction has been published in Freq and Prairie Fire magazines and she is the editor of two anthologies of short fiction as well as more than two hundred and fifty books across genres, including many award-winning and best-selling titles. Learn more about her at: www.parlaymanuscript.com
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