Tag: revision
Writing Lessons from the Garden
Posted by Paula Munier | Sep 16, 2020
Publishing Proverbs You Should Know
Posted by Paula Munier | Jul 6, 2020
Writing Book #2: A Post-Mortem
Posted by Paula Munier | Apr 29, 2019
Revising Your Attitude about Revision
by Our Special Guest | Aug 31, 2018 | Craft, Young Adult
Revision is more than changing “happy” to “glad,” or correcting a few comma splices. It can require tearing your novel apart, finding a new focus, and rewriting from scratch. If the book is important enough to you, as Mariko Tatsumoto’s was to her, you’ll put in the necessary work to take your novel from okay to important.
Read MorePolish Your Prose: Write a Tapestry (Not a Quilt)
by Paula Munier | Jul 27, 2018 | Craft
If good writing were a textile art, it would be a tapestry. A tapestry of character, dialogue, action, narrative, inner monologue, theme, setting, voice—all the elements of fiction woven together artfully into polished prose. Your goal: Writing a tapestry.
Read MoreHow Many Words in a Novel: The Perfect Word Count for Your Debut Pitch
by Paula Munier | May 7, 2018 | Craft
The first thing agents and editors often ask writers about their work is: How long is it? Answer that question wrong, and you mark yourself an amateur. Here’s how to answer the right way—and fix your story with Paula’s How-to-Cut Formula if it’s too long.
Read MoreRevision: An Agent’s Bird’s Eye View
by Paula Munier | Apr 20, 2018 | Craft
What to do when your editor gives you revision notes you hate? A literary agent tells all.
Read MoreThe Top 5 Ways to Impress an Agent
by Paula Munier | Sep 6, 2017 | Publishing
The dos and don’ts of impressing agents, as told by an agent.
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