Editing Horror (with James Gallagher)

$50.00

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$50 (Members: $45) | How to edit horror | webinar | Intermediate

Veteran horror editor James Gallagher leads this one-hour webinar for people interested in learning how to edit the horror genre. (This is a recorded version of the webinar, not a live version.)

The class covers the fundamentals:

  • What is horror?
  • Brief history of genre
  • Subgenres
  • Horror beats and tropes
  • Character: protagonist v. the monster
  • Setting
  • Controlling theme: From life to death to damnation
  • The unknown
  • Reader immersion
  • Editorial concerns for problematic tropes

Intermediate classes are intended for those with some developmental editing experience or who have taken the Beginning + Intermediate DE for Fiction classes or the self-paced DE 1 through 6 classes.

The class is entirely online and asynchronous (you don’t have to be in any particular place at any particular time to participate).