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  • Started by Phyllis Smith
    .... As we are now in the 1st quarter of 2021, what are your writing goals for 2021? My goals consist of working on the revision of my memoir manuscript. I am rethinking it and revisioning it at this time. Also, I a...
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  • ...d of trying to plan ahead for inspirations I don't yet know about. One revision techniques I've used to suppo...rocess is to revise one thing at a time... for example, I might do one revision just working on one character...
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    ...recently been introduced to this forum by a memoir coach, Marion Roach Smith. I've taken several of her classes and now am in the final stages of revision. My odyssey has been long, bu...
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  • ...during NaNoWriMo in November 2015. It took this long for me to dig it back up and begin revising. However, now I realize the entire book needs a revision before I even begin writing....

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  • the difference in each revision is huge! Then again, I love revising...I feel like I'm polishing a gem!
  • ...which I stated the effect before the cause. A book that has helped me a lot before I had the resources to hire an editor was James Scott Bell's Revision and Self Editing for Publicat...
  • ...with NaNoWriMo...well, I wrote the first draft and am now on my second revision. I'm reading "The Editor's Eye" by Stacy Ennis and trying to write my revision based on the information she...

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