Via Mandy Schoen: A post about The Five Stages of Revision. It’s something that we don’t always talk about much, but revising, especially revising when you thought you were all done, can be tough! To say it with a lyric, give yourself time, love, and tenderness. Time to get some distance and get over the soul part of writing and back to the business part. Love: love for your story, and love for making it the best it possibly can be. And, finally, tenderness–do what you need to do to make it easier. Take a bath. Eat some chocolate. Dance to loud music. Then grin about how lucky you are and revise that puppy!
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Revision Can Give You Grief
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When Fingers Fly
I saw this link on Twitter and I thought it was good enough to share again. Biographile.com is hosting something called “Good Prose Month,” and that includes a fantastic post on some very common writing errors. These sorts of lists are wonderful to check on now and then; while I thought I would catch most of the usage mistakes that are highlighted in the post I linked, there were a couple that gave me pause. Would I catch them all, or would my eye slide right over some? I don’t know–and that’s why, when this post publishes automatically, I’ll have to visit the link and see!
I’ve thought about starting a list of my own. My tip of the day:
Lightning: a flash in the storm
Lightening: something that makes things lighter
Happy writing!
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