We often hear writers talk about how revision is the key to writing well, but we don’t often get concrete strategies for how to do it. Yet there are indeed several non-abstract steps you can take to make your writing better through revision. In this class, we will go over 20+ strategies writers can use to revise their stories, and we will put some of these into practice on the spot. We will also use exercises and mini-workshops/discussions to get an idea how to proceed on revising a longer story. Students should bring copies of the first two pages of an unfinished story with them to class.
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Inprint Intensive Workshops, Writers Workshops,
FICTION REVISION 2016-306
About the instructor
MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of the novels The Hundred-Year Flood and I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying. His other books include a collection of essays, Different Racisms, and a novella, The Last Repatriate. He has written for NPR, The New York Times, Salon, The Toast, Glimmer Train, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He is the fiction editor at The Good Men Project and online fiction editor at Gulf Coast. He received an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction, and the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing, and is currently a PhD candidate in the UH Creative Writing Program.
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