Read, Revise, Repeat: A Fiction Writer’s Self-Editing Toolbox

This hands-on workshop is designed for writers who are ready to develop a keen editorial eye for their work. Participants will be provided with practical tools and techniques to transform their drafts into polished pieces of writing.

Key Learning Objectives

This workshop will help writers

• edit in layers, making multiple focused passes
• create tools like reverse outlines and character bibles
• tighten prose by cutting wordiness, redundancy, passive voice, and crutch phrases
• make dialogue purposeful and natural
• strengthen core mechanics
• clean up the narrative point of view, and
• utilize modern editing tools

Participants will be provided with time to put some of these techniques into practice to polish a short excerpt of their work.

Please note that this is a WCYR Members’ Only Workshop. Please visit the events page to sign up.