October 08, 2017
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision/revising teaching, specifically of the latest post on process. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
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Recently I saw a question posed on Facebook about what people do to discourage students from submitting incomplete drafts to workshop. I started to write a long response, but then realized the ...
October 02, 2017
Erin Adair Hodges
Self-Portrait as Banshee
The then-boyfriend driving my car back from Vegas
hits an elk outside of Gallup, twilight bruising the cliffs,
and we spin around just once before the ditch opens
to take us, “Superfreak” the soundtrack to the splintering,
and a twang in white socks stops to perform his human
duties, saying he saw us clip the buck’s ass but ...
September 25, 2017
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision. There are more revision prompts (not specific to flash fiction) here and in previous posts. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
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Why don't we talk more about process in the writing workshop? Why are we so focused on product?
I suspect that one reason, beyond "it's always been done ...
September 07, 2017
It's the start of the semester, and I thought it would be helpful to have all of the revision prompts so far in one place. I had to put this together for my own teaching materials, so here it is. 41 revision prompts and counting!
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Make a list of all the decisions your protagonist makes, every single one. Now change the order of the decisions your protagonist makes so that they follow a causal change. ...
