Say goodbye to NaNoWriMo 2011 and my obsessive edit of my first 50 pages. My kids in the Young Writers Program both made their word count goals. One with a day to spare, and the other staying up a little past bedtime to wrap it up. It is surprising how much one can write in [...]

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          Two weeks ago, Kitty began a series of posts detailing how to do a structural edit. She suggested we pretend to write a reader’s review. I’d like to add my voice to this suggestion. Write yourself a review or revision letter.           Read through your work, [...]

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We generally spend January talking about revision at Routines for Writers. After all the holidays are over, it seems like a good time to take another look at what you wrote during National Novel Writing Month and figure out what to do next. But I’m starting the next stage of revisions on my superhero novel [...]

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