A while back, there was a bit of a stir around a study at New York University about how publicizing goals made people less likely to do the work to achieve the goal. Among others responding to the study, Erin had some good points about different people reacting differently in the same situation, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘revising’
on goals, and the sabotaging thereof
Posted in goals and planning, writing, tagged goals, planning, revising, writing on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
on the other hand
Posted in novels, writing, tagged Not Forgetting, revising, writing on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Outlines don’t work for me for planning and writing a novel. But on the other hand, I have found revision outlines to be an extremely useful tool under some circumstances. I’m looking at Nicky (Not Forgetting) now, thinking in terms of emotions and thoughts as Alex suggested, and things look like they might [...]
getting through the mental block
Posted in writing, tagged Overamped, revising on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Experiment: I’ve made an appointment with myself to tackle the difficult part of Joey’s chapter one. I signed up for the edit marathon at Forward Motion, and starting Monday morning I’ll tackle the edit.
I’ve not had good luck with trying to impose outside deadlines or schedules on myself, but maybe I’ll [...]
distance versus laziness
Posted in writing, tagged revising, writing on June 17, 2009 | 7 Comments »
When you’re editing, how do you (I mean you personally, not abstract advice you’ve read in writing books) tell when you need to step away from it for a while and when you’re just procrastinating?
when is a novel done?
Posted in agents and marketing, writing, tagged agents, revising, writing on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I had a lengthy post about SF versus literary fiction half-ready to go, but I revised my intention so I could point out two recent posts Nathan Bransford has had about revising novels:
First, a very useful revision checklist.
And yesterday, an interesting discussion about how to tell when your novel is done?
I suspect [...]
