Review: A competent short book on systematic novel revisions
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2013
I liked this book for a variety of reasons.It described a systematic process for revising, treating the big issues first (plot/story structure), the middle size issues next (scenes, GMC, etc), and finally, the polishing last (sentences, grammar, spelling, etc).This process helps you to stop wasting time on cleaning up whole scenes that you're going to cut anyway. I thought it was a well organized process that focused you on the right issues at the right time.All the normal technical issues were good: Kindle formatting, table of contents, font, paragraph styles, grammar, spelling, sentence structure.The whole book had the ring of competence to me. I recommend it to all fiction writers.