It’s now time to work on the parts of your story that need improvement. This is called revising. To make your story clear and complete, you might need to revise it several times. Remember, no one ever writes a perfect draft!

Revising is your chance to improve your first draft by adding, substituting, deleting, and moving ideas and words around. Once you begin revising, you may need to revise the story two or three times before your ideas completely take shape. Don’t worry about “small stuff” like spelling and punctuation though. Those things will be checked and corrected later in the editing stage.

Wait a few days before revising your draft. You will look at it with a fresh eye and new ideas if you do.