revision

Re(re)vision: Laurie Frankel on Throwing Away Half Her Book While Writing It

The Author of “Family Family” Listens to Angel and Demon Alike As She Revises

 
By Laurie Frankel  January 24, 2024
Craft and Criticism

Brando Skyhorse on the Fantastic Art of Revision

By Brando Skyhorse  August 18, 2023
Darlings

Ruth Madievsky on Burying Her Darlings in a Cemetery of Bangers

By Ruth Madievsky  July 10, 2023
On Craft

Revise, Revise! Anna Badkhen on the Joys of Revision

By Anna Badkhen  June 5, 2023
Language

Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books

By Theo Downes-Le Guin  March 13, 2023
Write-minded

Peter Ho Davies on the Art of Revision

By Write-minded   January 30, 2023
Revision

Accidental Craft: On Discovering the Right Way (For Me) to Revise

By Sorayya Khan  November 7, 2022
TK TK TK

In Praise of TK: Why the Handy Shorthand Has a Surprising Emotional Hold on Me

By Sophie Vershbow  September 29, 2022
The Common

Shubha Sunder on Writing from a Place of Nostalgia for Home

By The Common  March 28, 2022
Thresholds

Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision

By Thresholds   February 9, 2022
First Draft

Peter Ho Davies on Why We Fear Revision (and How to Get Over It)

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 3, 2022
Creativity

Shocked Into Dreaming: Why Puppets Inspire My Creativity and Spark My Curiosity

By Elizabeth Weiss  December 1, 2021
Revision

A Survivor’s Guide to the Long, Slow, Infuriating Process of Revision

By Peter Ho Davies  November 2, 2021
Revision

Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

By Maggie Smith  July 27, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Walter Mosley on Learning to Love Rewriting

By Walter Mosley  June 11, 2021
The Craft of Writing

John McPhee on Wrestling with a First Draft

By John McPhee  May 21, 2021
Diaries

How John Steinbeck’s Diaries Helped Me Write My Debut Novel

By Stacey Swann  May 4, 2021
Artists in Conversation

Francine Prose and Doon Arbus Talk Museums, Revision, and the Objects That Give Our Lives Meaning

By Literary Hub  November 20, 2020
Publishing

Why I Paid Tenfold to Buy Back the Rights for Two of My Books

By Kiese Laymon  November 10, 2020
WMFA

Susan Choi: ‘Have a Very Large Storage System for All That Garbage’

By WMFA   October 14, 2020
Workshop

Lessons From a Nightmarish Writing Workshop

By Nina Schuyler  January 10, 2020
Writing Recommendations

Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits

By Lydia Davis  November 12, 2019
Writing Reflections

Writing Through Extreme Grief Helped Me Become Myself Again

By Margaret Renkl  July 19, 2019
Craft and Criticism

Learning to Love
the Worst Commute in America

By Devin Murphy  April 4, 2019
Conversations

Patrick DeWitt on the Surreal Joy (and Terror) of Seeing Your Novel Onscreen

By Tatum Dooley  September 26, 2018
Excerpts

How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

By Melissa Stephenson  July 26, 2018
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