“Critiquing and Revision” with Kat Bodrie

Critiquing and revising are complementary skills: the better we are at critiquing others’ work, the better we are at critiquing — and revising — our own. If writing a first draft is writer-centered, critiquing and revising are reader-centered, the stages when we consider how our work lands with an audience. But how often do we spin our wheels? How often do we struggle to determine what changes to make, or disregard good feedback? And how many of us obsess with getting our first drafts “perfect”? In this workshop, we’ll discuss techniques for critiquing, whether in a group, with a partner, or solo, and we’ll approach revision as a time for play, invention, and discernment — a way to stretch ourselves as writers, disregard our pride and insecurities, and use others’ feedback to hone our craft and better accomplish our intentions for our work.