Guides
Practical guides for revising your writing
These guides are about the craft of revision: deciding what to change, changing it without damaging what already worked, and keeping the writing recognisably yours. They are useful whether or not you use Writva.
Controlled editing
How to make a targeted change to a draft — and how to check that the change actually improved it.
Book writing
Longer projects have different problems: deciding what a book is for, getting scattered material into an order, and revising something too big to hold in your head.
A template you can use straight away
Not a guide — a framework to fill in, complete on the page.
- Nonfiction Book Outline TemplateA fill-in framework for planning a nonfiction book, whole on the page.
Where these guides apply in Writva
If you want to see how the ideas above work in practice, these pages describe the product side.
- Improve a DraftThe workflow for revising something you have already written.
- For AuthorsLong-form drafting, revision, versions, and manuscript review.