This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). I must have been psychic when I said I was going to give my story one more read through after this workshop … Continue reading
This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). Today I am looking for grammatical errors. I am to correct any faulty parallelisms, fix any comma splices, be consistent with serial … Continue reading
This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). Today’s subject is internalization—those sentences and paragraphs of conversation inside the POV’s head. I am to look at judgment and reactions, unnecessary filtering, … Continue reading
This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). It’s time to see if my characters sound as good as they look. Do they sound like real people and have their … Continue reading
This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). Today’s lesson is to make sure my descriptions and stage directions are serving the story and not getting in its way. I … Continue reading
This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). Today I am going to identify and eliminate unnecessary infodumps, i.e., too much information in one place. I mentioned in an earlier … Continue reading
This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). Today’s assignment is all about making sure there is enough conflict and tension throughout the book to keep … Continue reading
This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). Today’s assignment is to tackle any weak or missing goals and make sure the character motivations are clear, logical and … Continue reading
This is the continued saga of my foray into Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop (blog.janicehardy.com). Today I was asked to look at each scene in my story and decide if it contained goals, conflict, … Continue reading
In my previous post I announced that I was going to follow Janice Hardy’s Revise Your Novel in 31 Days at-home workshop. (blog.janicehardy.com) Today’s assignment was to make notes, with no actual revisions, to discover places I may want or … Continue reading