For students with at least 150 pages of a novel, this advanced course focuses on elements of technique and vision necessary for a work to be considered complete. Participants receive intensive instructor and peer critiques of manuscript chapters and their relation to the overall work, including a review as needed of the effective use of voice, tone, mood, imagery, and metaphor. One of the major goals of this course is to give students all the self-editing skills they need to polish and revise their entire novel--within and beyond the course itself.