Targeted Revisions: Making The Big Work Small - With Justin Maxwell

In this online workshop, participants will use two modified exercises from The Playwright's Toolbox (details below) that are designed to dis-assemble the complex and often overwhelming process of revision into small, manageable components. The event will start with a discussion about targeted revision, what it is, how it works, and the problems it solves. Then we'll discuss some of the targets that participants can point at in their own writing.

Although useful, participants do not have to have a completed play script or a script-in-progress for the workshop. The process can be and has been adapted for other types of creative writing. The techniques can be applied to any genre.

Facilitator's Bio:
Justin Maxwell is a full professor, teaching playwriting in the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans and this year’s judge for the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. His playwriting book The Playwright’s Toolbox was recently published by Applause Books. Currently, he’s adapting the Tennessee Williams novel Moise and the World of Reason. His play An Outopia for Pigeons is out from Original Works Publishing, and Your Lithopedion is out from Next Stage Press. His prose appears in numerous journals, including Theatre/Practice, Contemporary Theatre Review, American Theatre Magazine, and others. He is a former Co-Chair of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid-America Theatre Conference.

The Playwright's Toolbox is available through Amazon and other online retailers. The workshop does NOT require purchase of a copy, although Justin may use material from it. Amongst the 56 playwrights who contributed exercises to the book is WWT member Erik Abbott.