Great River Writes: Kill Your Darlings, Resurrect Your Manuscript

Join us for this special Great River Writes workshop focused on the editing process. 

Once you've spent a month (or eleven years) reaching the end of your manuscript, it's time to get to work. Many scientists conclude that 88.3 percent of a professional writer's time is devoted to the art of revision. One crucial aspect of revision, editing, can give your manuscript the makeover it needs to transform it into a publishable form. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss seven key editing strategies that will help you inject your language with life, ruthlessly kill the dead spots, and create beginnings that will arrest your readers' attention. We'll share examples, offer a live real-time editing demonstration, discuss ways to create strong beginnings, and see where our conversations take us. Participants are invited to bring the first page of a work in progress. 

About Great River Writes

Great River Writes is a partnership between the La Crosse Public Library, Women Writers Ink,  the Winona Public Library, the River Arts Alliance, the UW-La Crosse English Department, the La Crosse Area Writer's Group, and National Novel Writing Month.

Great River Writes announces the 2nd annual writing series to inspire writers of all levels. In conjunction with National Novel Writing Month, public libraries and literary organizations in La Crosse and Winona will host writing workshops and author chats every Saturday, October 27 through December 9. Community write-ins, craft talks, and expert tips support both published and yet-to-be-published writers of novels, poems, short stories, and more.