To avoid impulse buying, just walk away…

You’ve probably heard this strategy to avoid impulse buying: walk away from the beautiful, enticing, shiny book/shoes/gadget/tool/cookware/game for a while. When you come back with fresh eyes, you’ll be able to make a more rational decision about whether to buy it. This tactic may or may not help control your purchases, but it’s certainly a tried-and-true method to become a better writer. Getting some distance and returning with fresh eyes is a crucial stage in the writing process: the revision stage.

Revision—re vision—means to re-see or look again at a piece of writing. Already in the word revision we have a sense of the timeline involved. You’ve already looked at something once (while making it), now it’s time to look at it again.

This module will offer strategies and activities to refresh your vision as you consider how take your rough draft from basic to brilliant.