Writer's Wednesday: Revisions/Re-Visions
Yes, my friends, it's that time again! Revisions! Notes and outlines and corrections and lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Whenever and wherever I have the chance to work on it. Okay, those are old photos, but you get the idea. Today's discussion: where am I in the process, and how is it going? Way back last fall, just before I began drafting Seffi Wardwell #3 ( Edited Out ), I took a squint at #2. My initial reaction was that I'd done an amazing job with the first draft (not something I usually think). My second reaction was that if I thought it was all in such good shape, I needed a second opinion. I don't usually care to have anyone read a story until I've revised it a couple of times, but I needed advice, so Ellen Jacobson kindly agreed to read the MS of Washed Up With the Tide . Thanks to Ellen's insightful comments, I am now in the process of my usual level of revision and re-vision. Between her comments and my own realizations as I began reading aga