Radical+Revision


 * Radical Revision Possibilities**:

Change the point of view > see Change the chronological order of events Give the piece a new ending or beginning Change the tone or voice of the narrator > child within Completely alter the genre Alter the focus (may be done while altering the genre)
 * Be a different person, change characteristics
 * Pick a different narrator
 * Write the story as many times as you have characters, catching only what they
 * focus on the beginning, middle or end only
 * 1234 becomes 3241
 * you can practice this on someone else's writing
 * make the timid shy kid into the bold brash hero
 * change the voice of the 20 something heroine to be the voice of the emotional
 * poem to essay
 * essay to newspaper article
 * newspaper article to one-act play
 * short story to poem
 * Write it to show something radically different than what it originally showed. Your essay about your father’s endearing eccentricity becomes the tale of his neglect.