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My Mental Marathon: Revising a novel in < 1 year!
http://mymentalmarathon.blogspot.com
The goal: to successfully revise my 400 page novel in under a year. The challenge: to successfully revise my 400 page novel in under a year! As fellow-writers know, this is no easy feat! I plan to share all my struggles, disappointments, and hopefully occasional triumphs, in order to help make YOUR revision process a little less daunting.
- Added on: Sep 8th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: CJMB
- Listed in: Fiction How-To
- Tags: motivation period piece unpublished author the jazz age revising a novel 1920s new york
Recent Posts
Are you using ALL your senses?
I remember a passage in Elizabeth Lyon's Manuscript Makeover which said that writers often only focus on the sense of sight in their first drafts, and that all the other senses have to be worked into subsequent drafts. Isn't that odd? I mean, that ...
Feedback: Friend or Foe?
I've been getting so much fantastic feedback on my last two posts (which can be found here and here.) I now know I have a ton of rewriting ahead of me on Chapter 1, but this is not a bad thing. I actually find it quite inspiring when people tell me...
Holding my breath and jumping off the high-dive ...
That's how I feel about what I'm about to do. I just sent out the first third (possibly fourth) of my untitled WIP to my trusted Brilliant Editors (or Beta Editors ... whatever their official title, they're the "BE"s I'm always referring to). But I...
Cyber Beta Readers Rule!
Without further ado, here's the second part of Chapter 1 of my untitled WIP. (May I suggest that you read, if you haven't already, the first half, so as to get some context.) I've decided to save my analyses of the art of critiquing for the next po...
Blog-to-Blog: What we all can learn from Amy March ...
Take a look at this wonderfully provocative post from Megan Rebekah Blogs. So what's your initial reaction? When I read that "Tweet" about metaphorically burning one's manuscript, I instinctively cringed, as I think any writer who has slaved for mon...
Walk the Walk!
So my husband and I came down to the city for our annual gorge-fest with loved ones, and to spend the weekend. Aside from hanging out with friends, catching a show and eating all the wonderfully exotic foods that are so lacking upstate, another thi...
