Comments on: Step 1 of Editing a Novel

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:05:54 +0000

I’m loving what I’m reading about layering. Sounds much less overwhelming than trying to look for everything all at once.

Emily, I honestly never thought of trying that before! Really cool idea. Have you tried it? What sorts of things did it help you find?

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:46:20 +0000

I would actually try writing out excerpts by hand - you might find the flow too be totally different than the typed version. It's worth a shot. The medium is in the message, right? Emily’s last blog post..Gender roles

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:16:08 +0000

Alexa, thanks! I’ll check those out right now…

By: Alexa

Alexa — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:58:28 +0000

I found this post quite helpful and went for option 5, which seems to be working.

http://lianabrooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/editing.html

And this post on layering is helpful too.

http://theinnocentflower.blogspot.com/2009/03/working-in-layers.html

Good Luck

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