Build your toolkit of revision strategies so you can polish your writing BEFORE showing it to an editor or agent!
In this hands-on, active learning workshop, you will learn some of the various ways writers reshape, rethink, and “re-vision” their pieces. We’ll learn about and try out deep cutting, shifting style or point of view, switching up or mixing genres, and more! By the end of class, you’ll have a variety of revision techniques to try out so that you can choose the approach (or approaches) that will inspire you to take your writing forward.
Live video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it).
In this workshop you’ll learn:
- Revision strategies that published writers use
- Reverse outlining of your work
- Close reading for line-editing and copy-editing
- Deep cutting
- Re-imagining your work to flesh it out
Time requirements
- None
Materials
- Please bring an original text (any prose genre of fiction or creative nonfiction) to work with.
Who should take this workshop?
- This workshop is designed for any writer of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) who wants to expand their knowledge of editing strategies to become their own best self-editor.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
