Writing Is Revising: How to Become a Better Editor is a 4-week online class in which participants will learn and practice different skills, tips, tricks, and perspectives on the process of revising—which isn’t just about commas and grammar rules you learned (and promptly forgot) way back when. Making revisions is its own type of creative process and it’s where the realwriting happens. Anyone can write, but the key to being a successful writer, is being a great editor of your own work. Whether publication is your main goal, or perhaps it’s just figuring out how to best convey what goes on inside your head, editing is what separates piles of word vomit from well-polished (and published!) tidy lines of words.

On the first day of class, students will submit to the instructor an essay they wrote and have been struggling with in terms of doing revisions. Over the course of the next four weeks, that essay will be revised by the instructor and other workshop participants every week so that the author can see how to edit different aspects of the essay. Through this, participants will gain knowledge of how to revise any piece of writing, will be able to identify and fix problem areas in their own work, and how to give and receive helpful feedback.

This class includes a 30-minute phone consultation.