Compress Novel

4 Ways to Slim Down Your Novel
After reading over the first section of the novel that I’ve just revised, I realize that I want to cut some of it. It’s not bad the way it is, but cutting 10-20% will help.

Re-Envision

10 Ways to Start the Process of Re-Envisioning
How do you start revisions? You’ve got a great draft, and it’s pretty settled in your mind that this is how the story happens. BUT, readers aren’t thrilled with it. Editors and agents pass it by with a nice personal letter. Great, you think. There’s something here, but [...]

Joni Sensel

Guest blogger, Joni Sensel writes about cutting her story so much that two books became one. I read an ARC of this new book and loved it — the novel revisions worked!
Why Cut Out Important Parts of a Novel?

Originally I thought my new middle-grade adventure, THE FARWALKER’S QUEST, would be two books of a trilogy, [...]

Revise the Picture Book Text

This entry is part 15 of 31 in the series 30 DAYS TO A STRONGER PICTURE BOOK
It’s time to spend a lot of time doing revising of the picture book text.
Does it Hang Together
Does the story hang together. In such a short story, you can’t mention anything extraneous, at all. If you mention [...]