Jacob M. Appel is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine, where he is Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry. He is also the author of four literary novels, nine short story collections, anContinue reading “Vision and Revision: a guest post by Jacob M. Appel”
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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 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”
Welcome to Experience Writing 2021
Attempt at Focus This year has one main writing focus and that is revision. I will be revising my novels one after the other. I will be revising my short stories and my poems. I will find ways to stay motivated during revision. I will explore revision tools, workbooks and worksheets and find what worksContinue reading “Welcome to Experience Writing 2021”
#WriterinMotion Week Two: revision plan
For once, I overwrote. I have a story that needs to be told in less than half as many words, so I thought I’d spend a little time and create a plan for this first revision. This Week’s Revision Plan First steps: print out the story read aloud highlight best lines/parts cross out parts IContinue reading “#WriterinMotion Week Two: revision plan”
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