Liven Up Your Lines: Revision for Language Nerds with Mathangi Subramanian— Starts March 1

Nerd out about your revision process with these practical, hands-on techniques you can immediately apply to your work in progress.

Have you ever stared at your manuscript and thought, "What the @#$% do I do now?" End your revision woes with this four week class! We'll learn how to improve our work at the line level by exploring things like syntax, word choice, and sensory detail. We'll also talk about how to balance showing and telling, and how to get our work out there into the world. Especially useful for folks working on book-length projects.

What you will learn

• - Distinguishing between scene and exposition

• Generating and using sensory details

• Using syntax to create emotion / vary sentence structure

• Identifying and generating poetic devices

• Identifying and generating a word collection

Workshop takeaways

Students will leave the course with a set of revision techniques they can implement immediately. They'll also leave with a better ability to analyze a piece of their writing and decide what types of revisions they'll need. Finally, they'll gain more control over their craft by generating examples of each of these.

Meeting Dates

Saturday, March 1

Saturday, March 8

Saturday, March 15

Saturday, March 22

Additional info

If you can't attend this class live, it will be recorded! Students will receive a recording the day after the class, and it will be available for 30 days.

About the Instructor

Mathangi Subramanian, Ed.D. is a neurodiverse South Asian American writer and educator who uses she / they pronouns. Her novel A People's History of Heaven was long listed for the PEN / Faulkner and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her middle grade book Dear Mrs. Naidu won the South Asia Book Award, and her picture book A Butterfly Smile was inducted into the Nobel Museum by economics laureate Dr. Esther Duflo. A Fulbright Fellow and a trained educator, she holds a doctorate in education from Columbia Teachers College. She currently lives with her husband, kid, and a couple of gerbils who are surprisingly supportive of her creative life.