Interested in Works-in-Progress with CD, fall 2019?

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* 1. Are you interested in taking Works-in-Progress with CD this fall?

Yes

Not sure

Maybe, but I don't know enough about it

Maybe, but not sure I can afford it

Maybe, but not sure I can commit the time needed

Maybe, not sure I'm qualified

No for this fall, but yes, someday

No for this fall, but yes, in the spring

Other (please specify)

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* 2. W-i-P with Crescent, as currently envisioned, is a 12-week, every-other-week writing group.It's intentionally small --- just 5 to 6 participants --- so each participant's work will get thoughtful, useful individual attention. It will include all the elements listed below.

Please rank them in importance to you.

a pre-class video and 20-page workbook by Crescent

12 sessions, including two one-hour full focus sessions, in which the group is focused solely on 25 to 50 pages of your written W-i-P (which you email to class members ahead of time), and three 30-minute short focus sessions, two of which take place after your full-focus sessions, so you have a chance to do revisions and get response. In short-sessions, you read aloud 10 to 15 minutes and the group responds for 12-20 minutes.

up to 75 pages of detailed line-edits and comments on your project, the one you have sent the class, from Crescent; sometimes other students also offer line edits.

occasional reading and writing assignments, sometimes personalized

interim deadlines, which give most accountability and motivation

12 10-minute videos on the weeks when W-i-P is not meeting; videos build on what came up in previous session

the growing of a collaborative community of cohorts, with whom you can interact outside of class on our private Facebook page, including after the sessions are over

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* 3. Is there some other element you'd like to see added to W-i-P?

Yes, see below

No, sounds comprehensive

Other (please specify)

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* 4. W-i-P is the first course Crescent will be teaching which requires an application and has entrance criteria. The next several questions will list those application criteria, and ask you about them. Here's the first:

1. You must already be at work on one of the following projects: a novel (adult or YA), memoir or creative non-fiction title, or play. (You might be at work on more than one project, but each member of the group chooses one and works on it).

Yes, I already am at work on my project.

No, I am not at work on it yet, but I plan to get started this summer.

No, I am not at work on it yet, but I plan to get started this summer so I can apply to W-i-P.

No, I'm still in the "thinking about it stage" - maybe I'll be ready by the spring 2020 W-i-P.

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Application query 2. You must submit at least 15 pages of a draft of your project with your application.

Great! This is exactly what I want in a W-i-P course!

I'll do it, but I'm scared. Will I be judged if it's not very good yet?

No. Too scary for me now. I'm not ready.

I haven't decided on which project I want to pursue yet.

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Application query 3. You must be both able and committed to giving and receiving thoughtful criticism, response that is both tough (on the work, in places where you see it needs help) and tender (on the person doing the work).

Yes

I would like to, but I don't know how. If you teach me, yes.

In the past, people have said I'm a wuss, but I'd give it my best shot.

In the past, people have said I'm too critical, but I'd give it my best shot.

In the past, people have said I'm too thin-skinned, but I'd give it my best shot.

In the past, people have said I'm don't listen, but I'd give it my best shot.

Well, doing this, and getting better at it is exactly why I'd like to be part of W-i-P

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Application query 4. You must be prepared to allow 1 to 2 hours a week outside of session to read the work of others in the group before their focus session (explained below), plus, of course, time to work on bettering your own work after receiving response.

Yes, I'm prepared, and looking forward to it.

Nope, much as I'd love to, I just can't commit that much time.

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* 8. The tuition for W-i-P will be $1950 ($181 per session-hour, not counting the videos on alternate weeks, CD's line-edit time, and CD's class development and materials time). This is...

More than fair. I am willing and able to pay in full now. Can't wait to jump in.

Fair. I am willing and able to pay in full now.

Fair or more than fair, but I'd have to do it in installments.

Fair, but more than I can wrap my finances around paying.

Not enough - underpriced, considering what else is out there.

Too much - overpriced, considering what else is out there.

Other (please specify)

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* 9. Given what I have learned in the course of this survey, I am

Ready to send in my application: please send it to me.

Interested and intrigued, but need to think about it more

Definitely not for me; I'll go it on my own, thanks.

I would like to do it someday, but I can't now; I don't feel far enough along

I would like to do it someday, but I can't now; it's beyond my budget, even with installments

I would like to do it someday, but I can't now; I just have too much going on to commit the time

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* 10. Whether or not you plan to join W-i-P, please rank what genres you are most interested in, with 1 being the genre of your current project?

Memoir

Novel (autobiographical fiction)

Novel (other; includes thrillers, speculative fiction, historical, mystery, etc)

Play or screenplay

Young-adult or Middle-Grade Novel

Creative Non-fiction

How-to or Self-Help

Genre-Bending