A Review of Experience Writing 2021 This fall has been intense: jumping out of bed every day to explore new photography ideas and write a poem. I know exactly what I’ve been doing since October first, but what was I up to last January? I’m glad I took a look because I don’t want thisContinue reading “2021 Review & Planning for the New Year”
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Revising a short story: the penultimate pass
Now that I have revised at the story level and the scene level, it is time to dig into those paragraphs, sentences and words. A fun and useful tool to use at this point is the word cloud. I put my text into Word It Out and created this: The program has some great tools.Continue reading “Revising a short story: the penultimate pass”
Revising at the Scene Level
In my last post on revising a short story, I mentioned the many things a scene needs to do: have a goal have a conflict have an action that leads to a new goal character development world building reveal new information provide sensory information have a grabber or payoff For my revision, I assigned eachContinue reading “Revising at the Scene Level”
Revising a short story: working through discouragement
Because I’m focusing on revision this year, I want to bring you along as I attempt to revise my work and improve my revision process. Hopefully, we can all improve together. I found a call for submissions that I think one of my stories will fit perfectly, so I’m starting with it. For once, IContinue reading “Revising a short story: working through discouragement”
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