"Stop waiting for the world to nudge you along." Award-winning novelist Nicole Bokat learned this basic writing lesson through years of painstaking experience, and now she shares it with her new online novel revision class.

"No agent, editor, or publisher will come knocking at your door. You need to develop a self-imposed discipline that becomes a lifelong habit, so that you write regardless of your mood, lack of inspiration, or any of the obstacles that life inevitably will put in your way."

Novel Writing: Revision with Nicole Bokat begins February 26.

-Amanda Barrett