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Basics of Writing, part IX: How to Revise a Manuscript or Story
It’s been a few weeks since my last “Basics” post, and with Ed’s post on Saturday about responding to rejections and working on rewrites, I thought that a post on revisions might be in order. In recent...
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Beth Bernobich: The Revision Monster
The moment you finish your first draft, you are filled with delight. (And often, exhaustion.) But let’s focus on the delight. You did it! You finished this most amazing and wonderful novel and you hope...
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Quick-Tip Tuesday: Revisiting the Past, and Finding Out We Sucked
I owe an apology to all of you. Seriously. To every person I have critiqued at a Live Action Slush, to every student whose manuscript I’ve marked up, to every aspiring writer I’ve advised with arrogant...
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Plot Stitching and Seam Rippers
I made it through Home Ec without doing myself bodily harm. Considering that the girl at the table next to me ran the needle of her electric Singer sewing machine right through her finger (and broke...
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Quick-Tip Tuesday: Cutting Out the Filler
We’ve recently learned that our younger daughter is gluten-intolerant. (Yes, this is relevant. I promise. Bear with me.) And in discovering this, we have learned we can’t always assume we know what’s...
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Quick-Tip Tuesday: Learning From Inexperience
Not so long ago, I posted here about revising my early work. I’m preparing for the re-release of my first series, the LonTobyn Chronicle (more on that later) and so have been editing the books: cutting...
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Quick-Tip Tuesday: Self-Editing Redux
As I’ve mentioned here plenty of times in the past couple of months, I’m in the process of editing my first series, the LonTobyn Chronicle. The Author’s Edit of Children of Amarid, the first volume,...
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Quick-Tip Tuesday: Fixing a Broken Manuscript
Confession time: There are times when I will find myself ignoring advice that I have given here on Magical Words, or in other teaching situations. For whatever reason — convenience, time, laziness, the...
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