3 Questions With Jennifer Gennari about Getting Organized Before You Start to WriteApril 14, 2024 | 3 Questions With, Novels, RevisionJennifer Gennari joined Highlights Foundation Social Media Manager Cat Galeano on Instagram Live to talk about ...By: Jennifer Gennari
3 Questions With Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen About Revising Your Picture BookJanuary 17, 2024 | 3 Questions With, Asian American Voices, Picture Books, RevisionFaculty member Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen joined Cat Galeano on Instagram Live to talk about her course Revise to ...By: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Your Book’s First Editor Is You: Is It Too Soon for Line Editing?February 28, 2023 | For Beginners, Novels, Revision, The Highlights Foundation ExperienceI'm Not Finished With My Draft Yet. Is It Too Early for Line Editing? We all come to the Highlights Foundation in ...By: Jennifer Gennari
The Sticky Note Approach to RevisionJanuary 19, 2023 | Muslim Storytellers, Novels, RevisionI hate revision. I’m just going to put that out there as the author of a book that went through sixteen full ...By: Intisar Khanani
5 Reasons to Revise Your WorkSeptember 16, 2022 | Novels, RevisionWe asked editor Emma D. Dryden, the leader of Filling the Writer's Toolbox: A Picture Book and Novel Retreat, to ...By: Emma D. Dryden
How to Revise Poetry: 20 Questions to AskJuly 14, 2022 | Poetry, RevisionA Poem's Object is to Explode the Moment When I think about what I want to achieve in a poem, many things come to ...By: Irene Latham
Top 5 Reasons to Make a Style Guide for Your NovelJanuary 20, 2022 | Novels, RevisionAt my first newspaper job, I was handed the AP Stylebook and told to study it. It was amazing to realize that ...By: Jennifer Gennari
Learning to Love Line EditingJuly 30, 2021 | Novels, RevisionYour book's first editor is YOU You’ve finished a manuscript! Celebrate your accomplishment, and get ready to ...By: Jennifer Gennari
Using a Revision Grid to Break A Story Down Into ElementsMay 30, 2019 | Novels, Picture Books, RevisionThanks to Harold Underdown for this blog post! Harold is co-faculty with Eileen Robinson for our Revision Retreat ...By: Harold Underdown
As Simple As Possible: Three Ways To Tighten Your ProseAugust 26, 2018 | LGBTQIA+ Voices, Novels, RevisionAs someone who writes a lot of middle grade material that is meant to be fast-reading and narratively compact, I ...By: Chris Tebbetts
Who, What, Where, and Usually Why: Revising ScenesAugust 23, 2018 | Novels, RevisionThank you to Sage Blackwood for this blog post! When I draft and revise my novels, I divide them into scenes. A ...
Top 10 Reasons You Need to Revise Your ManuscriptJune 13, 2018 | Nonfiction, Novels, Picture Books, RevisionWhy revise your manuscript? Good writers get their manuscript right the first time, don't they? Not in our ...By: Eileen RobinsonHarold Underdown