The Essentials of Fiction Revision

The Essentials of Fiction Revision: How to Self-Edit Your Story Without Cutting Corners

This course is designed to guide you through the self-editing process, from the time you write “the end” until the day you’re ready to share your novel. You'll still need feedback from others. But your story will be stronger when you put in the work.

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Course curriculum

1. Who I Am
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2. What You’ll Learn in This Course
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1. Writing “The End”
2. Returning with Fresh Eyes
3. Choose Your First Fixes
1. Answer the W’s
2. Identify, Create, and Describe
3. Outline Your Revision Plan
4. Individualized Feedback: Part 1
1. Identify Your Structure
2. Check Your Plot Points
3. Match the Plot with the Theme
1. Analyze Each Character
2. Consider the Dialogue
1. Get Creative with Setting Inspiration
2. Cut or Build the Setting
3. Consider the Senses
4. Clarify the Timeline
1. Showing vs. Telling
2. Balance the Details
1. Check Your Mini-Stories
2. Balance Action, Interiority, and Exposition
3. Ground Scenes in Emotion and Setting
4. Do a First-Page Read-Through
1. Read Out Loud
2. Be Ruthless with the Purposeless
3. Diversify Sentence Structure
4. Individualized Feedback: Part 2
1. Critique Partners
2. Beta Readers
3. Professional Editors and Literary Agents
4. Readers

About this course

$197.00
32 lessons
1.5 hours of video content

Learn to revise well so you can tell your stories as only you can do.

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The Essentials of Fiction Revision: How to Self-Edit Your Story Without Cutting Corners

Course curriculum

Introduction

From the First Draft to the First Read-Through

Making Your Revision Plan

Focus Area #1: Plot Development

Focus Area #2: Characters/Dialogue

Focus Area #3: Setting/Timeline

Focus Area #4: Description

Focus Area #5: Scenes/Transitions

Focus Area #6: Copyediting

Sharing Your Story with Others

About this course

Learn to revise well so you can tell your stories as only you can do.