Revision

[sarillia]

Hey all! It's been a while.

I am revising a novel for the first time (and it only took me 7 years and 15 first drafts to get here!) and I'm actually feeling pretty good about it so far, but I've been getting curious about how other people go about the revision process.

Comments

[siofrabunnies]

I like revising when I get stuck. Go back and read the previous chapter/paragraph to tidy things up, and I often get a bead on where to go next.

If I'm just catching mistakes, I work backwards, end to beginning, so I don't just breeze through. It helps to curb that thing where I know that it's supposed to say, so I miss what it actually says.

[sarillia]

I've heard that advice about working backwards before and may try it. But I'm not there yet. I've got a lot of large structural changes to make before I start worrying about tightening up the language.