Continued from https://pleiadesmag.com/teaching-revision-even-more-revision-prompts/, here are some final revision prompts for 2019. Add them to the prompts here: https://pleiadesmag.com/teaching-revision-all-of-the-revision-prompts-so-far/ – I’m teaching revision...
From time to time, I have been asked to give craft book recommendations, especially by and/or for writers of color. Having read ~50 craft books in researching my own book, here are ten volumes that I have found useful in thinking about craft, all written by non-white...
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. This is the final post. The first post is here. - Structure: the organization of meaning A word...
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here. – Pacing: modulation of breath When I first started writing, pacing...
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here. – Setting: awareness of the world Though it has somehow become common to...
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. WHAT IS CRAFT AND WHAT DOES IT DO, PART 3 - 24. Craft is an idea of craft. Which is to say both that craft is an idea and that craft is how ideas get presented as if they are not craft. 25. One can master various aspects of craft but...
Today we have a guest post from writer and teacher Michael Noll, who is the author of a new craft book: The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction. Check it out for your classrooms and yourselves. It's from the great Austin indie press, A Strange Object, and is...
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.]. - In the spirit of teaching the writing...
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! 1. Make a list of all the decisions...