Saturday, January 10, 2009

and i thought i was the one doing the revising (part one of two)

Writing a book is like taking a perfect class on how to write a book. ... Your unwritten book is a genius of a teacher. —Heather Sellers, Chapter after Chapter

January is the anniversary of many wonderful things (happy early birthday, Dad!), but among others, it is the birth-month of my book. In January 2006 I had a scrap of thought, a question, a fragment. Three years later, it’s a novel of more than 210,000 words. (Whew!)

I was thinking about that the other day, about this twisty-turny path of revision that I’ve been on for, oh, a while now. And I remembered some important conversations I’ve had this past year that helped point—or shove—me on my way…

Here it is, then. My homage to the painless process of revision.

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Posted by Jenn Langefeld on 01/10 at 01:12 PM
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