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Revising Writing
Novelist Holly Lisle offers a three-part method for completing a writing project faster in One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle. 
She suggests taking your "shitty" first draft (printed out--don't try this on screen because no amount of Wite-Out will remove all the markups you'll make) and subjecting it to discovery, scene checks, and then revising the electronic version. The process also requires a notebook, pens, and space enough for three piles of your ms. and the open notebook all together. Lisle notes:
She suggests taking your "shitty" first draft (printed out--don't try this on screen because no amount of Wite-Out will remove all the markups you'll make) and subjecting it to discovery, scene checks, and then revising the electronic version. The process also requires a notebook, pens, and space enough for three piles of your ms. and the open notebook all together. Lisle notes:Does one-pass revision sound like a huge amount of work? It is. Does it sound frustrating? It can be. It can also be exciting, and a lot of fun, and you can walk away from it with some very good books. Itls the only revision method I use. Using this method, I can revise a 125,000 word novel in about two weeks. I've never done more than one pre- submission revision, and usually only one, and never more than two, post-editor revisions. My post-editing revisions are usually light.[Tectags: writing revision] Listen to this article
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 9:19 AM
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I'm glad it's just a suggestion. :) The problem with this sort of thing for me, aside from the fact that I'm a rolling reviser, is that the more notes and scribbling I do, the more confused I get and the more things I miss or lose or.... Guess you get the picture. The best, ie worst, is when I can't read my own handwriting.
And because I revise as I go, and often delete scores of pages (80 pages, twice for my WIR), my "first" draft isn't really shitty. It needs polishing, but the big kinks have been worked out.
Will the thing sell? I don't know, but I can't imagine revising any differently. My discovery process is part of the writing. :)
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