Editing Horror (with James Gallagher)
$50.00
Description
$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).