The Editor's Eye: A structured approach to revising your novel, from structure to prose

Your first draft is done — now what? This workshop walks through a helpful editing sequence that stops revision from feeling overwhelming. We'll cover shifting from writer to editor mode, how to read your own manuscript with real distance, and the questions to ask of every chapter. Along the way: gripping openings, perky middles, satisfying endings, and why "you wrote it well" doesn't always mean "it belongs in the book." 

Ideal for anyone holding a finished draft and wondering where to start the edits.

This workshop is included with WestWord memberships. Join here or just book separately and come along.

Replay sent if you can’t make it live.

Workshop Host: Amanda Saint is the author of two novels, As If I Were A River (2016) and Remember Tomorrow (2019) and a novella-in-flash, Pressure Drop (2024). Her short stories, flash and micro fictions have been widely published in journals and anthologies, and placed and listed in many international prizes, including the Mslexia Flash Fiction Prize and the Fish Flash Fiction Prize, nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023, and selected for Top in Fiction four times in 2024. Amanda founded Retreat West, providing an online writing community, competitions and courses in 2012. From 2018-2023 Retreat West published 24 books and was named Most Innovative Publisher at the 2020 Saboteur Awards (shortlisted 2019). In 2022, she launched the WestWord literary magazine and in 2023, founded The Mindful Writer, where she combines mindfulness practice with creative writing to help writers connect more deeply to their craft, their world and everyone and everything they share it with.