...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...
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...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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...nd move things off that list that don’t satisfy the love. I can enjoy many ordinary tasks when I approach them with love, and the harder ones-the revision process I am in-I can pad wit...
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Diana, This is wonderful advice. It's exactly what I have been trying to do with my first memoir, which is in it's second major revision/rewrite. At first it was difficult, but I found...
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Thank you for sharing your stories. Sometimes it just a matter of timing, knowing when you are ready to tackle yet another revision, or as Frances said, waiting until you've learned enough to tell this special story.
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..."late start." I hope to self-publish my first novel in the next few months. Another one is finished (YA), and a third is going into it's second revision. What great fun!
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...hat I revised almost 40 times until there was no more constructive criticism. The UCLA workshop only met once a week, and it took a week for each revision of that one chapter---no wond...
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...ew weeks or month to get some distance from it before revising. During revisions, the story might grow or shr...ucture, spelling, etc. is more important. Leave the headaches for the revision process, that is arguably for...
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