A Master Plan for Revising Your Novel
How to tackle the unthinkable in seven discrete steps
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4 min readMar 31, 2020
Revision is hard, messy, and long. Yet it is vital to your book’s success: “The only kind of writing is rewriting,” as Hemingway said. Yet what exactly does rewriting look like? First what it does not look like — fixing punctuation and tightening up sentences. When you revise, you must be prepared to disembowel…
