More revision prompts to add to https://pleiadesmag.com/teaching-revision-all-of-the-revision-prompts-so-far/ - I'm teaching revision again, this time for a senior thesis workshop, in which students are workshopping novels, plays, TV and webisode scripts, whatever...
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. – Vulnerability: the real author’s stakes in the implied author I...
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. - Believability: the differences and similarities between various...
This is the latest post in our creative writing pedagogy series. If you'd like to contribute, as always you can contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.] --Matt Salesses, Web Editor - As a student I was lucky enough to largely avoid page limits on workshop...
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...
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...
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...
This is the final post in this series, continuing on the Part 1 post, Part 2 post, and Part 3 post of “‘Pure Craft’ Is a Lie.” * * * So the time has come to try to put forth some ways to approach these deficits in the workshop. I have a few ideas, but I'm sure I'm...