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Tag: revision

Killing your darlings

April 22, 2012 A. B. Westrick 2 Comments

It’s kill my darlings time. Major revisions a-comin’. Seasoned writers talk easily about it—the need to delete descriptions, characters and…

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Filed under: A Beautiful Mind, arc, craft, pace, process, revision, Ron Howard, story, structure, writing

The structure of a novel

February 23, 2012 A. B. Westrick 2 Comments

In the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Poets & Writers magazine, John Stazinski (page 29) bemoans the tendency of MFA programs…

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Filed under: arc, books, craft, critique, Grub Street, john green, kathi appelt, Looking for alaska, manuscript, MFA, novel, plot, Poets & Writers, revision, story, structure, Uma Krishnaswami, VCFA, writing

Non-linear writing

August 1, 2011 A. B. Westrick 2 Comments

While I was drafting this post, my son peered over my shoulder, and said, “Mom, TL:DR: too long; didn’t read.”…

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Filed under: craft, process, revision, VCFA, writing

Bringing in the back-story

May 8, 2011 A. B. Westrick Leave a comment

For a few years, I’ve had the privilege of serving as a primary-level reader/judge for James River Writers’ Best Unpublished…

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Filed under: back-story, character, contest, hook, manuscript, protagonist, revision, structure, writing

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Podcast: Working Title on the 85K Writing Challenge, where I confess that I’ve stopped beating myself up over my process. It is what it is. March 20, 2019

Podcast: Working Title on the 85K Writing Challenge, where I talk about setting priorities in my writing life. February 20, 2019

Podcast: Working Title on the 85K Writing Challenge, where I ramble about my writing process, including how I conquer writer’s block. January 23, 2019

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