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 ❦ Revising Novelist's Notebook
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Like  •  Comment  •  1 Day 19 Hours ago
loving reading this <3
Like  •  Comment  •  Jan 6, 2012 at 6:54pm EST
Thank you I am working on the revision! hard work.
Like  •  Jan 6, 2012 at 7:03pm EST
at 43,433 words and I hope I don't get stuck again and finish! That is all I want. To get to 50,000 by the 30th!
Like  •  Comment  •  Nov 28, 2011 at 1:46am EST
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An epilogue?

Maybe pick a random stranger and summarize your story from their POV.
2 Like  •  Nov 29, 2011 at 11:28am EST
power! great idea!Thanks
Like  •  Nov 29, 2011 at 6:34pm EST
12/6 Just a last update I finished the 50k and am very proud of what I did. Now comes the hard part revision. I really like the first 30k but I ran out of plot so made up back story and some things to add in, at the wonderful suggestion of others on this board. It helped me flesh out characters and will be added in at the right time. Jan is my date to really work on this book. I just hope it is a good plot. I have had good response from the couple who have read the first part of the rough draft.
2 Like  •  Dec 6, 2011 at 1:36pm EST
Reviewing can be difficult. Some pieces are meant for a certain typw of reader. When read by others and the point is missed or the vision didn't apear along with the reading, the writer is offended. I think from now on if I just don't get the purpose of what is wrtten I will just close it and move on. Wasting a review on a piece that is so far into the outer concepts isn't worth reading it.
Like  •  Comment  •  Sep 24, 2011 at 8:21pm EDT
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Goal/motivation/conflict and resolution. Dixon wrote a fantastic book on how all great stories have these in the whole and in each chapter. I write with these in mind so that there is order in the story. Some goal's are harder to find so when I do, it sometimes surprises the writer who says I wasn't aware that was what I wrote. It helps to focus on making a good story.
Like  •  Sep 25, 2011 at 7:55pm EDT
I often put conditions in my reviews such as "if this was aimed at kindergarteners, it might work, but if it's aimed at adults, I think you should use capitalization and punctuation properly." You know, give them an out Wink
Like  •  Sep 26, 2011 at 8:19pm EDT
I totally agree.
Like  •  Sep 27, 2011 at 10:06am EDT
Write a new update...
Like  •  Comment  •  Sep 14, 2011 at 10:05am EDT
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