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What did you like best about the class:

"I felt very comfortable.  You, as the teacher, made me feel easy about reading my stuff.  Thanks for that!  I learned a lot and took it home to use it every week.  Thanks!  :-) "  Caroline

"homework, on-the-spot exercises, lecture, real-world examples."

"Individual support & attention.  Opportunity to share with classmates & receive feedback."  Stephanie

"The casual  nature & hearing others' writing.  The way each week had a topic/focus.  The size, not too few, not too many (students).  Making us write little snippets in class."  Janet

"small size, interesting handouts (great!), teaching style."  Bren

"The teacher used various methods to explain the writing concepts that will remain memorable."  Deidre

"The great instructor & materials provided insights even the experienced writing class attendee learned from."  Jo

 I'm excited to announce that I'll be teaching a writing class, starting in January. 

"WRITING FICTION FOR CHILDREN"

$180 -- 6 week class

Thursdays, January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
YWCA of Greenville
700 Augusta Street
Greenville, SC  29605
864-373-6300

This class will focus on writing fiction for children:  short stories, picture books, chapter books, middle-grade novels, and YA novels. We will discuss characterization; point of view; dialogue; plot; scene and sequel; pace and proagression; chapter hooks and cliff hangers; revision; manuscript format; and the submission process.  You wil have a portfolio of writing exercises, class handouts, and a manuscript-in-progress.  Manuscripts will be critiqued in class.

Week 1:  Characterization
Week 2:  Point of view; dialogue
Week 3:  Plot
Week 4:  Scene and sequel; pace and progression; chapter hooks and cliff hangers
Week 5:  Revision and manuscript formatting
Week 6:  Submission process

Contact Pam Zollman at pam.zollman@gmail.com for more information.

Did some quick coding tonight and created a few more options for the news section of this page.  New posts can be added now with the correct time (and hopefully, username) attached to them.  In order to post, you currently have to be an Admin or Mod.  I'll work on fine tuning the permissions later, but this will have to do for now.  Editting should also allow for the original posted date to remain unchanged (previously, it would change to match the current date and time).  I also had to later the table to force dates for new posts to be inputed properly.  All and all, it works pretty well!  I hope to expand upon this to allow for blogs and such, but I think this is a pretty handly little piece of coding.  Next up, I'm going to work on the reply option as well as displaying news posts on their own page with their corresponding comments attached to it.  That might take a little bit of work, but I think overall, it shouldn't be too hard.

If this works out pretty well, I think I might start moving this over to the YWCA's site soon to help with keeping it better up to date.  We'll see, but I like where this is going.

edit: hmmm... noticed a weird formatting problem with this post.  I'll have to look into it.  That was solved easily enough.  I wish all my problems were like that!  The overall formating of the news reel still needs some looking at, but I'll get to it as soon as I can.