WLT Saturday Craft Seminar: “The Art of Revision” with Peter Ho Davies

A few times a year, the WLT hosts Saturday Craft Seminars featuring a presentation and conversation with an author who has recently released a book on the craft of writing. Everyone who buys a ticket will receive a copy of the book and access to the live event on Zoom (see below for full details).

In December, join us for a virtual presentation and conversation featuring Peter Ho Davies, author of The Art of Revision: The Last Word. 

About the event:

Perhaps the single most common question for any writer about revision is: How do you know when you’re done?

It’s a question that betrays our impatience and uncertainty about the process, but at its nagging, gnawing heart it’s a question that reveals our secret horror of revision as some infinite Sisyphean task. That’s a uniquely unsettling dread for writers. Our stories and novels, after all, are supposed to end, and yet revision – the story of a story, of how a story comes to be written – can appear endless. But the operative word here is “appear.” Revision, at root, is about vision, about seeing and re-seeing. There is a light at the end of that long revisionary tunnel if only we can see it.

This talk, taken from Peter Ho Davies’ THE ART OF REVISION, will chart one winding, personal journey through that tunnel – via memoir and fiction – towards that distant glimmer of light. The subsequent conversation and Q&A will address tips and techniques to help us all along the way.