Class Description
Editing and revising your own work can feel daunting, but it’s often the most important step in bringing your novel to its full potential. In this class, we’ll break the revision process into manageable steps and explore a variety of techniques to help you refine your manuscript, strengthen your narrative, and deepen your characters. You’ll learn strategies for identifying structural issues, tightening prose, clarifying voice, and resolving plot inconsistencies, so you can approach your manuscript with confidence and purpose.
Through discussion and guided exercises, you’ll develop a toolkit of practical revision strategies that work for your writing style and goals. We’ll also cover how to set achievable revision goals, track changes effectively, and maintain momentum on a long-term project.
This class is suitable for writers in any genre of fiction who have a complete or nearly complete manuscript and are looking to prepare it for eventual submission for publication. By the end of the session, you’ll leave with concrete steps, a clearer sense of your next revision moves, and resources to support you in completing a polished, submission-ready novel.
Writing Roadmap: We've created a simple, goal-based writing roadmap to help you find the perfect GrubStreet course for your writing needs.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
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This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.