Revisionary
Participants in Lit!Commons get access to all 10 teaching artists. Eliot West leads the Revisionary pathway, which aims guide you toward a more productive and robust revision process.
Eliot creates weekly on-demand content that can fit into your busy schedule and follows up with live sessions as well as peer conversation in our shared community.
In this pathway, you'll find activities and lessons like:
Lit!Commons Subscribers Gain Access to All 10 Teaching Artists. The Revisionary path is led by Eliot West.
Eliot West (eliotwesteditorial.com) is an independent editor specializing in romance and fantasy fiction, including interactive fiction. Their work is informed by a background in literary studies and deep interests in conscious language, gender diversity, human sexuality, consent, and trauma and healing.
Whether editing, teaching, presenting at a conference, or working with a writer one-on-one, Eliot aims to support creators in realizing their particular visions and growing in their craft—and to advocate for readers through a commitment to inclusive language and storytelling.
Eliot has spent their life both studying and celebrating how genres, stories, and sentences work. They hold a PhD in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a focus on literary theory and the novel … but their real education has been in reading queer romance, working with students, and getting their hands dirty in manuscripts as stories grow into themselves.
This curriculum will build over time. You get access to it all!
What to Expect from The Revisionary
Welcome from Eliot - The Revisionary
Shared Values and Rules
what if you were to revise...a city park?
challenge: imagining different levels of revision for a specific draft
Finding Distance: The Revision Mindset
challenge: moving toward a revision mindset
make it longer
challenge: make it & then make it longer
make it shorter: trimming and tightening drafts
challenge: cut, cut, cut!
steering toward the good stuff
reflection: beauty in your world
challenge: what's beautiful? what's working?
