Question Number Six
“What do I do if someone tells me I need to make major changes to my book, characters, plot, setting…the whole thing?”
Well, it depends who is telling you. If it’s your agent or editor, then most of the time you suck it up and make the changes.
If the suggestion comes from someone in [...]
Revisions, and revisions, and revisions
Creep in this draft of mine from day to day
Till the last syllable and final spell-check’s done.
Now all my manuscripts sit like weighted tools
Upon my dusty desk. Out, out, brief respite!
Editing’s like shooting shadows, a task unending
That eats your life and spits the bones upon the page
And then returns for more. [...]
After a day of revisions on my manuscript TSOF, I’ve discovered three things:
How easy it is to drag loose ends from one incarnation to another.
How great it is when someone who knows the business takes a look at your writing and points out where a dozen army tanks could rumble three abreast through a plot [...]
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