Are You Leading with Your Weakest Link?
No matter how crucial a scene may be to your plot, if it makes you go “ick”, don’t lead with it. It seems obvious to me after it was pointed out, but at the time of writing and revising a particular story, it made sense to start at the “beginning”, even though I always found […]
Revisions
I’m in the revision phase of my middle grade fantasy novel. I love this part. Revision is layering. It’s the search for symbolism and metaphor and meaning. It’s digging into the richness of what I’ve written and discovering that my planning and outlining paid off when I allowed the writing of the first draft to […]
Revise Your Novel in One Week
There is now a “lite” version of the “How to Revise Your Novel” Workshop available for only $5. This is a complete revision programme; not a teaser. It was created by an author who was offered an opportunity to submit her novel to fit an unexpected open slot in a publisher’s line-up… with the catch […]
Novel Revision
I’m now doing a Novel Revision course in parallel to the Writing Career Course. While the Writing Career course is helping in places, the novel I need to fix is completed so this makes much more sense. The other novel (now that I have been able to see how to convert this into the first […]