All posts in "necessary fiction"

Teaching Revision Part 2

Jan 22, 2016

This is a continuation of last week's post about teaching revision... -- After we've talked about the outside story's first and finished draft and done a number of macro things to think about how we look at a story as a whole, I move my revision class into thinking...

Teaching Revision

Jan 13, 2016

Over the weekend, I taught a one-day class on revision. I've been offering the class for years, but a few things have happened recently that have made me rethink parts of the course. First, I had to revise my novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, for the last time before it...