September 23, 2016
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision, specifically this one, this one, and this one. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
In my last post I wrote about how "Revision Notes" helped me teach craft as cultural, since it allowed the workshop to get a better sense of the individual context for the decisions the author was making in ...
September 12, 2016
I was at the Slice Conference this weekend and sat in on a novel structure workshop run by Ted Thompson, author of The Land of Steady Habits. Thompson had read people's synopses, but of course not the full manuscripts, and the workshop was only an hour long. He ran it more like a quick presentation of long and short lines of tension and then a lengthy Q&A. At the end Thompson gave students a prompt they could complete ...
September 04, 2016
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision, specifically this one and this one. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
Last week I wrote about revision versus drafting and the idea of teaching writing as teaching revision—that is, teaching students how to make more conscious decisions as they go back and revise their (more) ...
August 26, 2016
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision, specifically this one. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
One of the things I've instituted in my courses because of other posts on this blog has been Revision Notes (sometimes I call them Writing Notes). My students record their writing/revision decisions continuously as they ...
