Ready to Revise? "A Month of Self-Editing Your Essays" Starts This Week!

This July, our prompts-based class will help you develop a full suite of tools to polish and perfect your first-person writing.

So, you’ve written an essay draft — or maybe even a lot of drafts — now what? Does the idea of revision and editing strike fear in your creative heart? That’s natural, but it doesn’t have to be that way. This July is the time to develop the skills and inspiration to push forwards on self-editing your drafts.

Narratively Chief Submissions Reader Amy Barnes’ popular “30 Days, 30 Essay Prompts” class has given hundreds of writers a full month of inspiration and generative ideas. Now her new month-long course, “31 Days, 31 Revision Prompts: A Month of Self-Editing Your Essays,” uses a similar format to guide you in self-editing and polishing your drafts, whether you wrote them last week or years ago.

This self-guided course is designed to help you tighten, strengthen, expand and contract your own essays or memoir. The course will help you add depth and background, make your narration shine, be more active with your word choices — in short, take what you’ve already written and prepare it for potential publication.

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