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Ten in Ten: Layered Revision

01.24.2012 - Be The First To Comment

There are two types of revisers: the reluctant and the thrilled. Maybe it’s the former-school-newspaper-copyeditor in me, or the short drafter in me, but I love revision. At last! Drafting is done (ha) and I can make the damn thing a bit better, or at least I hope. But revision

wwlmad (what would louisa may alcott do?)

12.18.2009 - 3 Comments Click here to read/write comments

Publishing a book is a saga, though I’d never presume to think it’s as exciting as the lives of the women writers I’m writing about (how very meta). I just received a very incisive and encouraging revision letter from my editor at HarperCollins and as I go through the manuscript,

in the vortex

11.12.2009 - Be The First To Comment

There are many explanations for my seeming neglect of this blog, but for the time being I will merely point to the deadline looming up before me like the most ferocious of Louisa May Alcott’s vortices. I’ll be back in late November…until then, hear Louy’s words about what I’ve been