Fall Craft Intensive: Jemimah Wei
Workshops
$75.00
Description
Editor's Note
Reading Into Revision with Jemimah Wei
Saturday, November 22
9 AM – 12 PM PST/ 12 PM – 3 PM EST
Online
READING INTO REVISION; or, how to read your own and others’ work and in doing so galvanize your editing spirit and generate new writing.
“For many writers, the trance of writing is far more agreeable than the sustained glare of an edit. But while we write into a void, we edit into a universe, no matter how ravaged it may be.”
— Susan Bell
If you’ve just finished a draft of a novel or story and are unsure where to go next, or if you’re close to finishing a first draft and looking for ways to propel your draft forward to completion, turning your eye towards the strategies that scaffold the editing process can be immensely helpful.
At the heart of editing is a rigorous and expansive reading practice. Meticulous, attentive reading is invaluable in developing not only the skills needed to edit oneself, but in fortifying your own writing spirit even when narrative solutions aren’t immediately apparent. Together, we’ll read published stories, identify and analyze narrative patterns and techniques most relevant to your own work, isolate and break down macro story elements, and embark upon craft exercises for revising your own draft alone and with others.
This class is designed for writers interested in breaking new ground with their existing first drafts or generating new work through analyzing narrative. The goal is to learn to be a better reader of other works-in-progress, which will serve you in finding writing partners and community, and to be a better reader of your own work through developing a steady, pragmatic editing eye.
Note: Although this is not a workshop, it’ll be helpful if you come with a story you want to revise.
Scholarship
The scholarship for this intensive has already been awarded.
BIO: Jemimah Wei is the author of THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER, a Good Morning America Book Club pick, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, and an Indie Next pick. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honoree, William Van Dyke Short Story Prize winner, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and Felipe P. De Alba Fellow at Columbia University. A recipient of awards and fellowships from Singapore’s National Arts Council, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Writers in Paradise, Jemimah’s writing has appeared in Joyland, Guernica, and Narrative, amongst others. Say hi at @jemmawei on socials, or jemmawei.com.