Description
Revision is an ongoing, creative, and necessary part of shaping your fiction and nonfiction drafts into polished, submission-ready manuscripts. The Institute developed Revision Power to help guide writers with the revision process and make self-editing a systematic part of your writing life—not an extra step you impose on yourself.
The tools and strategies provided in this program help you tackle common revision areas including:
- Openings that feel slow or flat
- Stories or articles that are close—but not quite working
- Dialogue that drags instead of moving the scene forward
- Uncertainty about when to “show” and when to “tell”
- Pieces that are too big for the word count limits of children’s literature
- Nonfiction that reads like a list of facts instead of a compelling narrative
- Sentences that miss the mark or aren’t easy to follow
- Drafts that don’t seem to fit anywhere in the current market
What’s included:
Revision Power is a self-led program consisting of 10 workshops with 101 mini lessons— available as downloadable PDFs—covering revision strategies for fiction and nonfiction.
Within each workshop you’ll have access to exercises, checklists, and examples to help you apply the concepts to your own writing.
You’ll also get essential resources like our Children’s Publishing Genre Guide, Magazine Issue Analysis Tool, and three exclusive eBooks to help you submit your work with confidence:
- Magazine Markets for Children’s Writers
- Book Markets for Children’s Writers
- Revision Power
Revision Power is online based. Once you’ve completed your purchase, you’ll receive an email providing your personal Student Center account credentials including username and temporary password.
Looking for feedback on your manuscripts? Submit your work through our Critique Service and receive an in-depth analysis of your writing from one of our Institute instructors.
