Crafting Revision in Fiction

Dr. Ryan Thorpe, Yuli Ming Endowed Professor of Writing at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Global College, directs its academic writing program and writing center. Author of Teaching Second Language Creative Writing (2021) and three fantasy novels (2023), he is currently developing the Writing Through Revision textbook series for Anthem Press.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes on Organization; Key Vocabulary; Key Genre Conventions; Basics of Drafting; Developing Ideas into a Draft; Prompts; Introduction to Revision; Revising Out: Writing Beyond the Edges; Student Draft; Learning to Revise Out; Revising for Fiction: Making the Unbelievable Believable; Revising According to Genre: Fiction; Revising Inward: Fiction’s Sentences and Paragraphs; Student Text; Sentence-Level Revision Strategies in Fiction; Text to Practice On; Advice for Development; Common Grammar Errors; Glossary; About the Author;