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WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK?

• Intermediate to Advanced Writers If you are getting those nice rejection letters, but can't quite break through to a contract, this is the book for you.
• Anyone who wants to deepen Plot, Character, Voice, Setting, or Language Take your story to new depths with exercises in this book.
• Not recommended for Beginning Writers:. Read other how-to-write books first. When you have a strong background in writing, come back to this one to polish your skills.

Award-winning author and writing teacher Darcy Pattison provides novelists with innovative, in-depth revision techniques they need to morph their novel into stronger, richer, deeper stories, including:

• Learn to see and understand your story's overall structure for yourself
• How to turn a phrase so that readers are hooked
• Techniques for enriching scenes and developing deeper stories
• Understand both micro-pacing and macro-pacing
• Turns theory into practical skills
• Spark in-depth discussions in your critique group

Foreword by Newbery Honor medalist Kirby Larson discusses her revision experience after attending Pattison's novel revision retreat.