Let’s start with your current thoughts on revision. Take a few minutes to write about the questions below, and then read “Hawks and Dachshunds.”
Prep: Answer the following prompts in your notebook.
View: What is your working definition of revision? (Don’t look anything up at this point; just jot down your current understanding.)
Process: What is your revising process? What do you do, and how do you go about doing it?
Expectation: Imagine looking at several drafts of a manuscript by an experienced writer (kind of a time-lapse view of revision). What would you expect to see? How would this compare to a view of several drafts of one of your manuscripts?
Goals: What do you hope to learn over the course of this regimen?
Read: “Hawks and Dachshunds”
In what ways did this essay confirm your views of revision?
In what ways did this essay challenge your views of revision?