Edit Like a Pro — Bonus Self-Paced Course

About the course

Course Fee

0

Course Length

Self-Paced

Weekly Study

60–75 mins

Course summary

No required books are needed for this course.

You will need one draft to work on. This can be a short story, essay, chapter, scene, or extract.

Optional reference points will be added inside the course modules where useful. The focus of this course is practical editing, not a reading list.

How you will learn

Edit Like a Pro is a self-paced course built around practical revision work. You will move through short lessons, checklists, and exercises designed to help you diagnose a draft, strengthen structure, improve pacing, sharpen sentences, and prepare cleaner work for readers or submission.

  • Work at your own pace.
  • Use one draft as your main working piece.
  • Apply each lesson directly to your own writing.
  • Build a clearer revision process you can use again.

Edit Like a Pro is a self-paced Litro Masterclass for writers who want to revise a draft with more control.

Work with one short story, essay, chapter, scene, or extract and move through five practical editing steps: diagnosis, structure, cutting and rebuilding, line editing, and final polish.

Start with Step 1 — Diagnose the Draft.

The Tutor

Litro Tutors

Litro Tutors represents the editorial teaching team behind Litro Masterclasses.

Our courses are built from Litro Magazine’s experience publishing short fiction, essays, interviews, and literary nonfiction, and from our work supporting writers through editorial feedback, masterclasses, and submission-focused development.

Edit Like a Pro is a practical self-paced course designed to help writers diagnose a draft, revise with purpose, sharpen the line-level work, and prepare cleaner writing for readers, editors, or submission.

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