2015 Willamette Writers Conference

You wrote a draft that you once labeled "final." Now you have it back, either with a rejection slip or your own inspired verdict that it needs further work. This moment is at once a crossroads and a crisis, one you need to negotiate with the realization that who you are as a writer, combined with the standards and practices you applied to that draft, are what got you into this fine mess in the first place. 
Successful revision is as much an elevation of skills and the refining of story elements as it is a response to feedback and, too often, guessing at what should change. This workshop seeks to take the guesswork out of the story fixing proposition by turning crisis into opportunity, empowered by a higher understanding of what may have gone wrong, dancing with the availability of better narrative execution arising from it.