Welcome to Twitter Treasure Thursday! Yes, I’m fully aware it’s been a few months since the last one. Sorry! Just blame my manuscript and crazy life. 😉
Anyway, to kick off 2015’s Twitter Treasure Thursday features, I found an article from one of my favorite resources: Writer’s Digest. While skimming their Twitter feed, I came upon an article all about revising. Since I’m about to jump into the fourth revision of my manuscript, I decided to check it out.
As expected, the article offered up some great tips courtesy of playwright and author, Monica Trasandes. I actually chuckled at one point because Trasandes uses the same trick I do when chopping out beloved sentences and paragraphs….When you read it, you’ll get it. And I strongly encourage you to read it since Transandes provides such excellent advice!
6 Keys to Revising Your Fiction
4) Be tough, others certainly will be
Assume every editor or producer you ever meet, within five minutes of shaking your hand will be thinking of ways to say no to you. Why? Saying yes will require that they convince others of the work’s merits—editors if it’s prose or financiers if it’s a play or a film. That will mean a lot of work on their part—probably unpaid.
Assume every editor is looking for a reason to say no. Don’t give it to them.
A teacher of mine, at Emerson, Pam Painter, would write DB on manuscripts, which stood for “do better.” She was saying, ‘this really isn’t the best you can do, is it?’ You have to be willing to ask that of every sentence you write.
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This is an excellent article. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Very interesting post. Thanks, for sharing!
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#5 on that lis is great! I’m going to use it from now on. Love the idea.
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Yes! That’s the one I chuckled at because I use the very same method (my document is called “Cut Out”). It’s so much easier to chop/revise things when you know they’re not being banished to oblivion, haha.
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