http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/novel/manuscript-revision-step-2/ Managing a full time engineering career while being a part time writer, musician, and outdoorsman. Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:49:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/novel/manuscript-revision-step-2/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Richard Perkins Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:44:09 +0000 http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/?p=429#comment-245 Stephanie - The character list is a great start, especially if your list includes a short snippet about where the story takes each character. If you haven't thought about your themes consciously yet, it might help to do that. Then again, it might not: everyone revises differently and what works for one author won't necessarily work for another. The other discovery activities (micro-summary and jacket blurb) are less helpful during revision than they are when you start querying agents and publishers. If, like me, you consider yourself more of a story teller than a salesman, promoting your own work will be a challenge. Formulating compelling sound-bytes as part of your revision process will pay big dividends when you're trying to snag a busy editor's attention. Cheers Stephanie – The character list is a great start, especially if your list includes a short snippet about where the story takes each character.
If you haven’t thought about your themes consciously yet, it might help to do that. Then again, it might not: everyone revises differently and what works for one author won’t necessarily work for another.
The other discovery activities (micro-summary and jacket blurb) are less helpful during revision than they are when you start querying agents and publishers. If, like me, you consider yourself more of a story teller than a salesman, promoting your own work will be a challenge. Formulating compelling sound-bytes as part of your revision process will pay big dividends when you’re trying to snag a busy editor’s attention.
Cheers

]]> http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/novel/manuscript-revision-step-2/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Stephanie Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:00:56 +0000 http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/?p=429#comment-244 I usually write up a character list as I get going and that's usually what my book is all about, characters. I'm not sure what this would do for me, but since I'm between a major rewrite and good polishing, this might be worth thinking about. I usually write up a character list as I get going and that’s usually what my book is all about, characters. I’m not sure what this would do for me, but since I’m between a major rewrite and good polishing, this might be worth thinking about.

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