Writing the story is only the first step. Once we finish the rough draft, we need to go over the piece and revise what we’ve written. This is where we find, and fix, mistakes. This is where we correct grammar,…
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The Editing Skill Set
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Balancing Time
When you write something, you must edit your text. NaNoWriMo is all about writing. Forget the self-editing until you finish the first or rough draft done. Then you can revise what you wrote. Established authors say to let the work…
Line-by-Line Revision
I hate revising. I need revision, but I abhor the job. No one ever wrote anything that didn’t need at least a little editing. My process is to read the work first and flag any problems I find while reading.…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Revising More Than One Piece
Sometimes you need to finish revising one piece while starting revision on another. It’s easy to get confused between pieces. There are tricks to use to do so with relative ease. I use a project management app called Project Studio.…
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Posted in Writing Techniques
Remove the Padding
And now a word about padding. That’s what I call adding words to make up a word count. It happens a lot. Sometimes it happens without you being aware of what you are doing. For example, in that first sentence,…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Self Criticism
You need to know when you are giving yourself constructive criticism, the words that make your project the best it can be and when you are just running yourself and you work down. That’s the tricky thing. You are your…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction
Revision
Today, I am going to talk about revising our work. Ernest Hemingway said, “The first draft of anything is shit.” He was right. While writing a first draft, the only goal is to get the story out and written down…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
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