When I am writing, I write what my heart is telling me to. I tend to become attached to the work, and at times do not want to revise it. Workshop has forced me to be okay with revising the work to make it better.
I usually just write and don't have a form to my writing which poses at times problems when I revise.
I really have learned a lot about revision through the process of workshop, and to cut the fat and reform works to something more. It is a useful tool to edit, even within essay papers for other classes.
It is important to learn revision, because it’s to help make it better, and not to tear apart a work. I felt that as a middle school student, but now as a college student, I understand the process. I am grateful for the process as well. It has truly helped my works.
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I felt the same way when the class first started. However, I find that it is helpful to put aside a poem for at least a few days, and then go back to revise. When I first write a poem I can never see what needs revising or what I can change. After a period of time when I go back to the poem, everything stands out so clearly and I find myself making multiple changes.
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