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The Hippocratic Oath for Revisions

by Rebecca | Jan 18, 2012 | mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, nerdiness, overly long posts, revising, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, talking about writing, the classics

This week I’m returning to a sh!tty first draft from a long hiatus. It’s been so long and the draft is so raw that I don’t know whether to call this an extension of drafting, rewriting, or revising. It’ll probably be all three. I get nervous...

Revision Trick: Synopsize Me

by Rebecca | Nov 8, 2011 | mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, pacing, revising, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, talking about writing, WIP

I know, I know. Synopses are devilish. But hear me out on this one. I always start revisions by reading through my WIP, fighting the urge to make line edits the whole time. (If I let myself start making edits, I would never get through the read. So if something is...
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