by kobowritinglife | Jun 18, 2018 | The Craft of Writing
By Rachael Herron The following is an excerpt from Fast-Draft Your Memoir: Write Your Life Story in 45 Hours, featured here with the author’s permission. Revision “Now, we talk about revision,” I say, writing REVISION on the whiteboard in red dry-erase letters....
by kobowritinglife | Oct 19, 2017 | Self-Publishing, The Craft of Writing, Tips
By Lisa M. Lilly You’ve finished a first draft of your novel. Now what? If you’re like most writers (including me), your draft includes points that require more research, scenes that trail off, plot holes, or all of the above. Addressing every issue at once is...
by kobowritinglife | Dec 11, 2015 | Self-Publishing, The Craft of Writing, Tips
by Chris Mandeville Knife, scissors, chisel, scalpel, jackhammer—I bet you were expecting a plethora of these types of implements in a post about “tools for revision.” After all, revision is all about cutting, honing, tearing apart and re-crafting your words, right?...