Name: Edit Your Work
Start: 2025-11-28T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-28T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Theatre Royal

Novelist William Sutton shares tips, pitfalls and secrets of the dark arts of editing. We also poke, prod and evaluate a text, suggesting edits from structural through copy edit to proofreading.
"The workshop at the NTR was incredible – it really spurred me on."
"Inspired by the session, I edited 30,000 words --and it was a pleasure, not a chore."
“I’ve found the input on editing particularly useful because it gave objective criteria to cut through the sprawling first draft."
Edit your Work
Tackle this crucial part of the writing process. Pick up specifics tips on how to improve dialogue, layout, structure, character. Bring a section of your writing and discover how seriously writers take editing.
1st rule of Editing Club: don’t trust spellcheck.
Appropriate for committed writers, all ages, writing fiction, drama, short story or non-fiction.
“Such a supportive group.”
“Great session again today, thank you.”
Since Portsmouth Bookfest 2021’s sold-out Take Your Novel Further and Write Your Novel courses, a group of writers local and farflung have met regularly online to edit their work, reshaping, pruning, prodding, developing early drafts towards publishable standard, in preparation for submitting to agents or publishers.