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Spring 2020: Mastering Revision

July 19, 2020 – August 23, 2020 Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to noon. (6 sessions) Zoom  925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205 Instructor: Kristina Tate Meets   online Instructor: Kristina Tate For writers at all

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July 19, 2020 – August 23, 2020
Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to noon. (6 sessions)
925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205
Instructor: Kristina Tate
Meets   online
Instructor: Kristina Tate
For writers at all levels

Revision is one of the most challenging parts of the writing process. How do we dig deeper and color in the edges to make our writing more evocative? How do we use the senses to make it come to life? What would happen if we approached the same material from a different point of view (third person as opposed to first-person say)? In this four-week class, we will take an editor’s perspective on polishing our work.
The class will be structured as a mini-workshop and we will devote most of our time to peer reading and critique with an emphasis on elements of developmental editing as well as line editing. We will focus on refinement of style, structure, and content. Sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, we will sharpen our tools for revision. Strong editorial feedback will be shared to help each writer shape and strengthen the material. Additional light reading will be assigned for class discussion but mostly we will concentrate on personal work.

Kristina Tate is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. She has lived in Arizona, San Francisco, South Lake Tahoe, New York City, Australia and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in Narratively, Guernica, BOMB and others. She is currently working on a memoir and a novel.