Thanks so much for being one of the 260,000 downloads if you’ve given us a listen! Please share it and subscribe if you can. Please rate and like us if you are feeling kind, because it matters somehow. to all of you who keep listening to our weirdness on the DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE podcast and our new LOVING THE STRANGE podcast. JUST CLICK ON THIS LINK AND FIND OUT HOW WE CAN INTERACT MORE. MAYBE TAKE A COURSE, CHILL ON SOCIAL MEDIA, BUY ART OR A BOOK, OR LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST? HEY! DO YOU WANT TO SPEND MORE TIME TOGETHER? We revise like the awesome beasts we are, trying to make the best possible stories. Because this, my friends, is what writers do. Then do it and feel totally boss and sexy throughout the whole thing. Checklists are sexy.Īnd you know what’s even sexier? An author checking things off their checklist. Now you have a document that will give you a roadmap to figuring out how to fix everything. Now figure out the global problems and the smaller problems.If they don’t serve a purpose? You need to cut them. You don’t need all those scenes you wrote, I bet. Yep! I said my stepdad’s favorite phrase. Do they do what they do for a reason? Write it down. Check to see if your characters make sense.Does it feel satisfying? Are all the questions answered?

Check to see if your ending makes sense.

Check to see if your beginning makes sense.

Write down where your attention drifts.Write down those problems with your image system (or lack of one).Write down those problems with your plot or with your character.You don’t want to be doing things about sentence structure and semicolon nitpicking here. As you read create a new document and put down all the problems that you notice.Here are the sub-steps of that second big step. I know! I know! It’s a beloved baby as adorable as Yoda or a puppy, but let me tell you, it will probably still have problems. You want to read your story carefully and look for problems. So, the read-through is a really big second step (or first step). What’s the first step? It’s putting it aside for a while and ghosting it like a bad friend at a party. Well, a read-through is actually also an important second step in revising your novel. They get a cool feel of it and the characters and the plot. It’s when the whole cast sits down and reads the script. Theater people know all about read-throughs. This week, I’m posting a bit about revision! Yay! I also talked about it with my student-writers in The Writing Course of Awesome.

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