Kitty’s post sent me to my bookshelf looking for books on revision. The one I searched for had some good information. The one I found was even better.           ”Getting the Words Right: How to Revise, Edit and Rewrite,” by Theodore A. Rees Cheney is an [...]

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This week I received some feedback on my thought-I-was-so-close-to-being-finished WIP. The feedback pointed out a problem that I knew was there but I was hoping wouldn’t matter. Grrr. Lesson here? Listen to your gut. In this case, I had made certain choices because I was trying to keep my manuscript in the realm of middle-grade [...]

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I told you I own two books on revision, so I thought I’d share some of the insights I’ve gleaned. The first book is Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction by David Michael Kaplan. One of the things David says about revision is that it’s a re-envisioning of your story. That re-envisioning [...]

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