REVISION
1. What is the power of revision?
a. How does revision help at the sentence level?
b. How does revision help at the larger, macro level? Describe this kind of revision.
2. Take a piece of your own writing and make a plan for micro and macro revision.
3. Start revising some sentences, some words, and some structure. (You are not obligated to keep these changes, as this is an exercise.)
4. Share your revisions with another member of the community.
· 1st draft, wear the WRITER’S glasses.
· Take a cooling off period.
· 2nd draft, wear the READER’S glasses.
o Read your sentences aloud to feel them in your mouth and hear them in your ears.
o Pay attention to inexact words, clunky phrases, even structure.
o Consider information the reader needs, where the reader is confused, ideas you know, but haven’t communicated to the reader.
· What else can you think of to revise?
· Revising Prose:
o Make lines more poetic
o Eliminate s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d rhymes that don’t quite fit.
o Craft sentences that are fun to read
· Revising Poetry:
o Eliminate s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d rhymes that don’t quite fit.
o Eliminate l-o-n-g lines that don’t seem to fit the rhythm of the poem.
o Change a few words to see if the new word makes a difference to the beauty of the poem, the sounds, or the meaning.
o Find words that have the denotation and connotation that doubles their power and impact.
· How is the revision changing the piece?
Pick a piece of writing, polished or rough and make a plan to revise it. (at the word, sentence, and even structural level.)
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Begin revising your piece. Then share what you've done.
A Good Line
1. Find a good sentence or line of poetry.
2. Copy it into your notebook.
3. Explain what you like about it.
4. Imitate it (but with a different subject)
5. How might you incorporate such writing into your own work?
6. Share it with someone.
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