Revising Tips
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Revising Tips
  • Try cutting the beginning off
  • Try writing it in a different tense, point of view, or angle
  • Choose a point in the writing and free write a re-write
  • Break more with white space, paragraphs, or chapters
  • Explode a moment or shrink a century
  • Draw out character or plot plan or a scene
From after THE END: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision by Barry Lane
 

 
Last Updated
11/01/03

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