CLASS OF 2001

I learned more about writing in six weeks at Odyssey than I have struggling on my own over the last ten years.

Odyssey is a six-week writer’s boot camp. Military boot camp was easier, but Odyssey was an amazing experience that has pulled me from the writing plateau I was on. Now, I am climbing the mountain again.

Odyssey is the best workshop I have ever attended. It has made me a faster, better, and more confident writer. Being so intimate with all the great guest writers has turned the tentative “I hope to be published someday” statement into “I will be published.”

At Odyssey you’ll meet some great people and learn a great many things. Just don’t count on a great deal of sleep.

Odyssey is essential for increasing your awareness of common writing mistakes that drive editors crazy, mistakes that can sink your chances of publications, no matter how great your ideas, characters, or plots are.

Odyssey is a wonderful experience that involves endless reading, sleepless nights, bleeding on every page you write. I’m so glad I came. Jeanne has provided us with the tools to hone our skills and shown us the amount and quality of work necessary to be successful in the highly competitive field. Odyssey has exceeded all my expectations.

Odyssey has taken years off my development as a writer. Every aspect of crafting fiction was covered with so much depth that I feel much closer to that elusive first publication credit. My writing has improved dramatically, to say the least!

Be prepared for an informative, intense experience that’s guaranteed to improve your writing. Jeanne Cavelos is a great teacher who obviously loves what she does! You can’t help catching her enthusiasm.

Odyssey is six weeks of personal chaos: the ecstasy of finally having your story click, the angst of your story’s weaknesses pinpointed, the longing for home, and the desire that the experience will never end.

You’ll work hard, play hard, and see a tremendous increase in your writing and self-editing skills. What you learn from your fellow students alone is worth the tuition. Add in Jeanne Cavelos’s thought-provoking lectures and six guest lecturers and you’ll take away years of learning through experience.

If you want to know how Ulysses felt, I mean really felt, take this workshop.

Odyssey will kick your ass, and you’ll love every minute of it.

Networking, networking, networking. Getting an insight on what agents are looking for from the two agents that came to class was extremely valuable information. The value of meeting so many authors, hearing their experiences, getting a story critiqued by them, and working with them in class goes far beyond the price of admission.