Writing Quirks: The Plot Wall

I used to revise in an unorganized manner that wasted a lot of my time. I didn't plan what I was doing before I revised, just scrolled back to the beginning of the manuscript and started reading through it again. Sometimes I had ideas about things I wanted to add, chapters I wanted to cut, characters who needed to change, and sometimes I didn't.

When I got a revision request for my third novel that stumped me in some very big ways, I was almost ready to give up. That's when I started making ou...