Workshop: ‘So You’ve Written a First Draft: Now What?’

Eastport Arts Center will present ‘So You’ve Written a First Draft: Now What?’, a workshop about the revision process with author Catherine J.S. Lee on June 17, 1-4 pm. Lee will guide participants in the process of editing their stories, personal essays and creative nonfiction to make them shine. “Do you feel that writing a first draft is a fun and exciting process of discovery, but revising that draft is mostly drudgery?” asks Catherine of potential students. “Do you suspect that your draft, be it the first or the tenth, could be better but you’re not sure what to do to help it reach its full potential? If you have a work-in-progress and want to learn some strategies and techniques for editing and polishing it, join me for a workshop on what Ernest Hemingway once called ‘getting the words right.’”

Workshop fee is $20; a sliding fee scale (pay what…