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Picking up the threads of a story is difficult after a holiday. Here’s four suggestions for making it easier: Read. Read through a couple
While we were traveling last week, I didn’t get any new scenes revised, but I did do some line editing. 3 Line Editing Strategies When I line edit, I’m trying to balance three things: Smooth, easy to read. First, I want the text to be smooth and easy to read. I try to read aloud [...]
Simplify Your Picture Book Story I’m currently revising a picture book and my major goal is to simplify the story. Why simplify the story? At 1200 words, the picture book text is way too long. I needed to cut it about in half. Why? Sue Edwards has just been reading 50 picture books in a [...]
Introduced first in 2007, authors debuting children’s books have formed a cooperative effort to market their novels. Last year, I featured many of the stories of how the 2k8 Novels Were Revised. This is part of the ongoing stories from the Class of 2k9 authors and how they went about revising their novels. by Deborah [...]
I seem to be thinking a lot about critiques these days, probably because I’m getting critiques from a couple different sources. The Strengths and Weaknesses of a Critiquers In critique groups, I find that writers/readers have different styles of critiquing. Grammar Witches: This person always finds the punctuation, spelling, and grammar mistakes; I’m grateful for [...]
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