Inside the Writing Life: Snippets From The Revision Front

I did hope for a ‘milestone’ post today, but am not quite there, so instead will share a “moment of eye-roll” from the revision front.

Doorstop, or revision manuscript?

Very often, revision involves big ticket decisions like “Does the narrative need this section at all, in order to ‘work’?” or “Is this part written in the right character’s point-of-view?” and “have I gotten all the action in the right, let alone the best (as per Coleridge’s observation on poetry) order.”

By ‘right’, of course, I...