This is a follow up project for students who completed our Genre Fiction Story Development 4 project. In this project, we will guide you through the process of editing the story you created in the previous projects and bringing the manuscript to its fully-publishable finalized form.

Support for students will include:

• Weekly mentoring with a developmental editor
• Guidance in the mechanics of story-telling and plot development

Students will be involved in:

• Workshopping and developing the plot of a story from start to finish
• Taking into account the needs of popular or genre fiction in today's market
• Working within a defined and disciplined structure to plot the book
• Meeting weekly deadlines and attending weekly editor meetings remotely
• Doing a final edit or polish of the manuscript to bring it to publishable level
• By the end of the project, you will have created a full novel that is ready for readers to enjoy

This project will take place over eight weeks, during the course of which the student will deliver the following assets:

• A fully developed and cohesive novel that is ready for the market
• You will possess all the skills necessary to write commercial-grade fiction