Story #12: Revise a Story

Story #12: Your job is to revise a story you have already written, expanding it substantially, so a 1-pager becomes 6 pages long, a 3-pager becomes 12 pages long, ballpark. My recommendations on how to start: If it is a story with one scene, plot it out so it has 5 scenes. If it has one location, give it one or more additional locations. If it has just one character, come up with an antagonist for that character to play off of. Class time till the end of the term will be spent critiquing these expanded stories. If you are ready to have yours workshopped, bring it in today. If not, aim for next week or the week after. This will be the “big” story that you will take away from this workshop, so do it right, revise it well, put your all into it.