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Are you a writer whose mind is a whirlwind of creativity and distraction? Writing While Distracted, is a writing podcast that helps you transform your scattered thoughts into literary brilliance. For writers of all kinds, but particularly those dealing with distraction and mental health issues, the podcast features positive advice, author interviews, and writing tips to help you find your story’s beginning, and use your strengths to get to the end of your novel. Here creativity thrives in the midst of chaos.
Mastering Revision: Genre, Continuity, and Research
Writing While Distracted
26 minutes
1 year ago
Mastering Revision: Genre, Continuity, and Research
Welcome to another episode of Writing While Distracted, the podcast that guides you from scattered thoughts to literary brilliance. Hosted by Brenda Murphy, your NeuroSpicy writing coach, this episode delves into the intertwined elements of genre conventions, continuity, and research in the revision process.
Brenda begins by demystifying genre conventions, explaining how they serve as helpful guidelines rather than constraints. She encourages blending genres to create unique stories while maintaining key elements that meet reader expectations.
The discussion then moves to story continuity, emphasizing the importance of keeping characters, settings, and events consistent. Brenda shares practical tools like Milanote and Scrivener, as well as the value of attentive beta readers, to help neurodivergent writers maintain continuity in their manuscripts.
Finally, Brenda tackles the challenge of research, offering strategies to balance in-depth exploration with focused writing time. She advises separating research from writing sessions to avoid derailment and maintain productivity.
This episode is packed with actionable tips and insights to help neurodivergent writers harness their unique strengths while navigating common challenges. Tune in to transform your creative process and keep your writing journey on track.
Until next time, keep writing, keep wandering, and embrace the distractions that fuel your creativity.
Show notes Genre Conventions, Continuity, and Research
Free resources for writers:
https://brendalmurphy.com/resources-for-writers/
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My podcast about revisions and editing: Mastering Revisions: Turning Rough Drafts into Polished Gems https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-xhk2p-167fa2b
Sandra Gerth’s fantastic book Show Don’t Tell: https://www.amazon.com/Show-Dont-Tell-descriptions-characters-ebook/dp/B01LXFJ0AC/
MIlianote
https://milanote.com
Scrivener
https://www.literatureandlatte.com
Revisions and Editing Steps
To recap the process, I use to get my rough as hell draft to a finished product to send to an editor, publisher, or out on submission is:
Round1: Revisions: structure, pacing, character arcs, genre conventions, continuity, and attending to items that require research.
Round 2: Language: word choice, refining prose, pacing, dialogue, scene descriptions, character descriptions, continuity. *At this point I send it to my beta readers.
Round 3: Proofing: Suggestions from Beta readers, grammar, spelling, punctuation, copy edits, line edits formatting for submission or publication. Copy edits, line edits.
Round 4: Final proofing read through before submission or publishing.
Writing While Distracted
Are you a writer whose mind is a whirlwind of creativity and distraction? Writing While Distracted, is a writing podcast that helps you transform your scattered thoughts into literary brilliance. For writers of all kinds, but particularly those dealing with distraction and mental health issues, the podcast features positive advice, author interviews, and writing tips to help you find your story’s beginning, and use your strengths to get to the end of your novel. Here creativity thrives in the midst of chaos.
