The first week of How To Revise Your Novel has revealed a lot about the manuscripts under revision.
The great thing about the worksheets, for me, is that when I first started revising the current WIP, back in July, I had an instinct/feeling for what wasn’t right and went about correcting it. But with the worksheets I’ve gone from the level of instinct to conscious awareness – I’m documenting the WHYS on the page which means I’m thinking in logical terms, and seeing those words on the page is creating little AHA! moments. I now understand why something isn’t working, as well as being able to identify (through instinct/feeling) WHEN it isn’t working.
Drop by here and see the early results of the systematic hunt for failures–and successes–in novels under revision.
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