Many writers recommend putting a manuscript in a drawer for some period of time between drafting and revising. This is great advice but what can a writer do who doesn't have that luxury? Bring your rough draft (any genre) and we will briefly explore some techniques to get you in touch with your revising self. The part of you who can stand-in for your ideal imagined reader. To shift your mind from the wildly creative to the place where you have empathy for the reader's needs.

Amy Beth Sisson is struggling to emerge, toad-like, from the mud in a small town outside of Philly. Her poetry has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, The Night Heron Barks, and Ran Off With the Star Bassoon. Her fiction has appeared in The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia, Enchanted Conversation, and Sweet Tree Review. In fall of 2021, she started an MFA in Poetry at Rutgers Camden.

Wednesdays On the Stoop is a series of free writing programming by Zoom every Wednesday from 4 pm - 5 pm. From accountability co-writing to generative prompts to discussions of exciting forms and authors of all genres, these sessions are designed to be a constant structure--every Wednesday at 4 you can count on Blue Stoop to plug you into your writing energy with an informal and supportive session.