Okay, you have the shape of your story down on the page, you know it’s time to revise, maybe you’ve even gotten some feedback already from peer readers. What next? Now it’s time to read through your draft and take notes, asking yourself questions about plot, character, setting and theme as […]
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Hi there, welcome back to 101 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Wrote My First Book! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, but I’m back in the saddle now, and ready to move on to the revision stage of writing. Just a quick recap before I dive in: We’re […]
One of my biggest issues with rewriting has been a tendency to want to change everything in order to solve the problems with the draft, rather than changing the specific thing that is wrong with it in the most simple, direct manner possible. I believe the colloquial term for this is “throwing […]
By now you’re probably tired of hearing me talk about planning, but assessing a rewrite is a lot more effective if you have a plan. I say effective rather than “easy” because it’s still a lot of hard work. If you are working off a plan, once you have a […]
For some writers, a first draft is like a block clay, a pile of words ready to be punched into shape. For others, it is like a nearly finished sculpture, needing only a bit of fine-tuning and polishing. And then there are a spectrum of drafts in between these two […]
This is what I’m facing in Book II edits right now. So. Many. Stickies. The good news is most of it is small stuff, quick and easy to fix. This is actually the compiled feedback from three different readers and some of my own notes. Which brings me to the […]