Difference between Advanced Magazine and Basics Courses

[jfields]

The advanced course is much more flexible and the instructor has a lot more room to alter the course to meet what YOU want to get out of it. But mostly virtually each thing you write is revised and sent again so that we can get it ready to actually mail to a market. Only ideas that hit a major publication roadblock aren't pursued to submission ready...like something about it (usually not the actual writing) puts it out of being magazine material -- often if it's just too edgy.

So ...as an instructor, in the advanced course, I'm trying to get every piece ready to mail to some market...and talking a ton about marketing. In the beginning course, I'm trying to get at least one piece ready to mail and talking a ton about the basics of children's writing.