revision prompts
24 prompts tagged revision, drawn from 2 categories. All free to copy, and all editable once they are in your own library.
- Turn this into spaced-repetition cardsMaterial you need to retain long-term rather than just understand once.Long🧠 Learning & explaining
- Scan this poem and mark where the metre breaksA line reads wrong aloud and you can't tell whether it's the metre.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Find a word that means X and fits the metreThe right word is one syllable too long and you've been staring at it.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Diagnose the line that isn't landingOne line is dead and you know which one but not why.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Critique this poem with no praise at allWhen you want an honest read and not a compliment sandwich.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Alternative line breaks for the same stanzaThe words are right but the lineation feels arbitrary.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Find the clichés I've stopped noticingA read-through for stale images before you send a poem anywhere.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Cut this poem to half its lengthYou suspect the poem is buried inside a longer draft.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Break this form on purpose, in one placeA formal poem feels too neat and you want a deliberate fracture.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Sound pass: alliteration, assonance, mouthfeelA late-stage read purely for how the poem sounds aloud.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Read this back to me for rhythmYou've lost your ear on a draft you've read fifty times.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Tell me what this poem is actually aboutWhen the draft is circling something you haven't admitted yet.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Turn this prose into verse without flattening itA journal entry or note has a poem in it somewhere.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Rewrite this in a different registerTesting whether a poem's tone is a choice or a default.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Check which ambiguities are workingWhen you're not sure whether a line is rich or just unclear.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Stop the poem tying itself into a bowThe last two lines explain the poem instead of ending it.Long🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- A stronger verb hereThe line is doing nothing and the verb is why.Short🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Cut this poem in halfYou suspect a shorter poem is buried in the draft.Short🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Where does a reader stumble?You have read the draft fifty times and lost your ear.Short🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Six rewrites of the line that is not landingOne line is dead, you know which one, and you want options rather than a verdict.Medium🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Three ways to break this stanzaThe words are right and the lineation feels arbitrary.Medium🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Does this ending earn itself?The last few lines might be explaining the poem instead of ending it.Medium🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Sound pass on this draftA late read purely for how the poem behaves in the mouth.Medium🪶 Poetry & wordplay
- Find the poem inside this proseA journal entry or a note has something in it worth keeping.Medium🪶 Poetry & wordplay
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