Lesson 5 As the plot turns, so turns your story. Pantser or Planner, HOW you choose to write the story MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. Fine tune the plot in the second draft, the revision. The first draft is to get the story down on paper. It’s the revisioning that matters. This is where you take that… Continue reading As the Plot Turns: Re-Visioning Your Story
Category: Writing
Do Your Characters Play Well With Others?
Do your characters play well with others? While writing the first draft you can allow your characters to ‘’take over’ your story, but not so in revision.
Reviewing 2011: Measuring Success
As I read year-end reviews in the various online magazines and news sites that I follow, I realized that I have never done a year-end review of my own goals for the previous year. How can that be? I am an over-analyzer of epic proportions. I analyze things for my day job, for every major… Continue reading Reviewing 2011: Measuring Success
Are Your Character’s Goals Golden?
The second installment
in Lynette M. Burrows’s “Re-vision Your Story,” discusses how to make your character’s goals golden.
Re-Visioning Your Story
Revision is probably the single most difficult thing a writer must do. Lynette M. Burrows calls it re-visioning and shares six lessons on how to re-vision your story.