How to Complete a Professional Self-Edit

Revise like an editor & up your submissions game with our November workshop

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Hey there, word-shufflers.

How’d you like to see inside the brain of a lit mag editor and find out exactly what they’re looking for in a story?

PLUS get step-by-step guidance on how to revise and redraft your work to tick all those boxes?

Learn how to shift your submissions from “in progress” to “acceptance” with our latest workshop, Evaluate Your Work Like an Editor — starting 5 November.

Workshop Overview

Join Steve Chang, fiction editor at Okay Donkey, for a four-part masterclass in how to objectively analyse and revise your writing like a pro.

In this workshop, Steve will share what editors wish writers knew about crafting, revising, and submitting — with detailed breakdowns of stories that have been taken through the revision process and author Q&As about what, why, and how they did it.

Through interactive lessons on narrative structure, characterisation and craft, you’ll get professional insights into how an editor thinks. And, by the end of November, you’ll have a toolbox of new editorial methods to apply to your work!

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Takeaways

• What editors want to see in a submission (and ways to develop a piece with potential)

• How to understand the type of story you’re writing — and how best to tell it

• Different methods of driving and shaping your narrative in dynamic ways

• How to deliver an impactful ending (and make sure your story earns it)

• Why it’s so important for readers to care about your characters, and how to uncover your protagonist’s agenda, goals and needs

Our first Editing Workshop drops on 5 November, so join us in peeking behind the Submittable curtain and develop a host of practical techniques to transform your stories and submissions!

Upgrade to receive the full editing workshop and enjoy a brand new lesson every Wednesday.

Meet Your Instructor

Steve Chang is a MacDowell Fellow and fiction editor at Okay Donkey. His writing has been published in Epiphany, Guernica, North American Review, The Southampton Review etc. and supported by Loghaven, MASS MoCA, Ragdale and a bunch of other stuff that would hook you up too if you’d apply. Want tips on how? Chat with him at Lit Match Collective, a writers community led by editors.