This seminar meets in person at WriterHouse on Sunday, Nov. 16, from 1-3 PM.
Description:
Writers often hear about “the revision process” as if it’s a singular thing. It’s not. Revising your work entails several processes and sub-processes, from the “30,000 feet” view to macro strategies to micro-editing. If all you’re doing is going over it “from the top” again and again, a manuscript may need up to fifty revisions before it’s ready for submission. In this workshop you’ll learn a more strategic approach that can save you months of work and result in a better book. You’ll learn what those strategies are and begin to put them into practice with your own work, with hands-on guidance from the instructor every step of the way. Participants should bring to the workshop their own work-in-progress (whether rough draft or completed manuscript), either hard copy or electronic version, and arrive ready to revise.
About the Instructor:
David Hicks, PhD is an award-winning professor/Creative Writing Director at the nationally ranked Wilkes University MFA graduate program and the author of two novels–White Plains (Bower House Books, 2018) and The Gospel According to Danny (Vine Leaves Press, 2025)–along with an autobiographical children’s book, The Magic Ticket (Fulcrum Books, 2024), all of which were revised using the strategies taught in this workshop. An experienced developmental editor and mentor, David has helped over eighty writers to be published for the first time.
David will give an author talk and reading from his latest novel, The Gospel According to Danny, at 2nd Act Books in Charlottesville on Sunday, Nov. 16 from 4-5 PM.
