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.
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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 the Revision Process: Transforming Your First Draft into a Masterpiece
Writing While Distracted
23 minutes
1 year ago
Mastering the Revision Process: Transforming Your First Draft into a Masterpiece
Welcome to Writing While Distracted, the podcast that helps you transform your scattered thoughts into literary brilliance. I'm your host, Brenda Murphy, your NeuroSpicy writing coach. In this episode, we dive deep into the first part of the revision and editing process after completing your rough draft.
We'll discuss the importance of creating a reverse outline to get a clear view of your story's structure, ensuring your novel has a coherent beginning, middle, and end. Learn how to identify missing scenes, combine scenes for better pacing, and ensure your character development aligns with your plot.
Discover techniques to maintain reader engagement through effective storytelling, character arcs, and plot development. Whether you're a pantser or work from a loose outline, this episode offers invaluable tips for refining your manuscript and making your story compelling and readable.
Join us as we explore the intricacies of the revision process and help you shape your wobbly first draft into a polished novel. Stay tuned, stay inspired, and keep writing!
Show notes WWD Season Two Episode Two
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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/
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.
