Workshops for Writers - February 1: Revising Toward Exactness

Join the St. Louis Writers Guild from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST on Saturday, February 1, 2025, for a free workshop with editor and writing coach Kim Lozano on manuscript revision.

Our presenter, Kim Lozano, will join us LIVE, in person for this FREE workshop. We will gather at The Lodge Des Peres, 1050 Des Peres Rd., St. Louis, MO, 63131 for the presentation, or you may attend the meeting online. To do so, follow the event link from the St. Louis Writers Guild website.

We all hope readers will think our books and stories are “well-written,” but how do we go about making sure they are? One of the ways we develop our preferences and tastes (a feel for good writing) is to make small changes to our manuscript—many of them, over and over again. Through careful attention to the way in which we’ve conveyed our ideas, we begin to see what belongs and what doesn’t. What’s boring or inferior and what might be better. In this workshop we’ll discuss how the writing in our books and even shorter works can go from blurry to sharp and what common problems to look for.

Kim Lozano is a developmental editor and writing coach. Through classes, editing, and one-to-one coaching, Kim helps writers improve their skills and get their fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry ready for publication. Her own work has been published in The Iowa Review, North American Review, American Life in Poetry, CRAFT, and many other places. Kim offers resources for writers at kimlozano.com. You can subscribe to her popular [Kim’s Notes] to receive craft instruction, revision tips, calls for submissions, and all sorts of writing-related goodness.