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...
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...
by Rebecca | Mar 3, 2011 | revising, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, talking about writing, unintended barf connotations, why so many tags for such a short and insubstantial post?, WIP
I adopted a nifty, new (to me) process while revising my WIP: chunking.chunking • \chung’ king\ v. 1 the processing of splitting an overwhelming MS into “chunks,” or parts, in order to revise the whole by parts.I didn’t set out to chunk my MS...
