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Revision Week: Greg’s Q&A

These are some of the answers I came up with for my friend Kate Messner, who is writing a book on revision for students, using input and examples from different authors with different methods of work. I’d been thinking a … Continue reading

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Revision Week: Targeting Word Count

Welcome to our week-long discussion about revision! You’ll hear from several of us on the topic. I’ll start off by discussing revision for word count. Continue reading

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Revision scorecard: FWQ

I thought PJ’s’s post about her revisions for THE EMERALD TABLET was so interesting, I was inspired to take a similar look at THE FARWALKER’S QUEST. It’s been one of my more extensive revisions, and I can see common themes in … Continue reading

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More Roundtable Discussion: Revisions

It wouldn’t quite fit in our last post, so here’s another viewpoint about revisions from Jo Whittemore, author of ESCAPE FROM ARYLON and other books in her trilogy, The Silverskin Legacy: The most challenging editorial changes are still ongoing for … Continue reading

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Roundtable Discussion: Tough work ahead?

As writers everywhere work on their first drafts for NaNoWriMo, The Spectacle looks ahead — to revisions. In this roundtable, we asked Spectacle bloggers to talk about their most challenging editorial revisions. Kari Anne Holt, author of MIKE STELLAR: NERVES … Continue reading

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