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...
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...
Syllabus time--who's got them? Send them to us at m [dot] Salesses [at gmail etc] and we'll post some more if we get them. In the meantime, here's my syllabus for a fiction workshop this semester. Not perfect, but we're getting somewhere--in 19 pages... --...
This is a continuation of our posts on teaching revision. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. I'm teaching my revision-only course again this Spring, and though there is some repetition from the...
I took over editing the Pleiades blog at the beginning of this year, and I've been proud to be associated with a magazine that foregrounds context in a year when mainstream journalism has largely abandoned any responsibility to the historical and cultural forces that...
This is the latest in a series of posts on revision. It’s actually a rethinking of Antonya Nelson's great post about teaching creative writing by walking her students through how she writes a story (link is in the essay below). Matt Weinkam revises Nelson's revision...
This is the latest in a series of posts on revision. It's a revision exercise meant to inspire a return to loving your novel. Rebecca Meacham responded to my post on 22 revision prompts. Her previous post (another revision exercise) in the series is here. As always,...
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision, most recently 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 been thinking about is how grading can improve the...
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"...