@JettaFrame It's an 8 week class, two more to go but so far so good. I have been working a lot on editing Hummingbird and that is what I've been submitting. It's a class of experienced and novice writers. My first two submissions, most all of them couldn't get past the phonetic writing, i.e. all'm or walkin' and bout etc. So I left the dialect in but removed the phonetic writing in my third submission. It was the chapter where Mercy meets Picks (which I have edited a lot since you last read it) and received high praise from everybody.
I hate tooting my own horn but it really was a surreal moment. The the guy running it (he's a best selling author, SiFi) the comments he made and even reading a couple of passages and saying clearly you are a talented writer and it's amazing how my work becomes so much better by simply removing the phonetic writing, as it's clear enough in my stye she has the Southern dialect.
Around the room it went with all good things to say and passages being read. It's an experience I wont forget because the previous submission was near the opposite.
One retired pastor said he wished he could write like that. Another 60 yr old guy gave me a fist bump after class. It was just a weird moment for me.
Ok sorry I'm done tooting my horn just need to tell somebody.
How Jetta?