8-Week: Eight Ways of Looking at a Manuscript

Taught by Lighthouse’s most tenured instructor, this class takes his experience reading and commenting on more than 10,000 manuscripts and translates it into eight important craft lenses through which to view your work. While all of the work he’s read at Lighthouse has been enjoyable and beautiful, he’s noticed the same issues cropping up in almost all work. In this workshop, we’ll look at one of those issues each week, using the lens of that issue to focus on your text. You’ll each submit a short selection of pages twice, which will receive written feedback from your peers and instructor through the lens of that week. Over the eight weeks, you’ll become an expert on authentic characters, language, lens, point of view, dramatization, intensity, progression, and personal vision.