I came across an article on revising a completed manuscript that looks well thought out and presented by author, Holly Lisle. I have not read any of her books but after reading her autobiography, I think I will purchase one. She mainly writes fantasy novels and even though I love watching movies with a fantasy theme, it’s not my favorite genre to read. But her bio painted a picture of a unique individual with a unique perspective on life and living that it intrigued me enough to want to read one of her books.
The article, One-Pass Manuscript Revision is worth a read. I found another writer who tried Lisle’s revision process, Kathleen Bolton who wrote about doing Lisle’s method of revision and has now sent her manuscript to her agent - her first completed manuscript!
Holly Lisle’s Website, though not very pretty, is worth exploring as is Writer Unboxed. Both have a lot of information on the writing craft.
Gloria, I too checked out Holly’s One-Pass article which I plan to use when I am finished with the first draft of the novel I am currently working on for NaNo 2006. Having also been intrigued with other articles and information links I discovered through Holly’s website has also lead me to join a writing community which I think is quite remarkable; I think perhaps I may write a little about that experience in a post of my own. The name of the group community though is Forward Motion for Writers and it was founded by Holly Lisle.
For anyone interested in reading Holly’s novels on-line, two of them are available through the Baen Free Library @ http://www.baen.com/library/ along with many other novels; available to be read by anyone at no cost. The Baen Free Library is definitely worth checking out also, the main page explains how and why all of the novels found here are available for free to anyone interested in reading them.
Thanks for the information, Ruth. I am going to add Forward Motion to my resource directory and if you do write a post about it, I will add a link to your post under the Forward Motion link in the directory. I’ll check out the library also when I have some free time.
One- Pass Manuscript Revision may sound brutal at first but it certainly gets the job done. Oh and doesn’t it feel good when you know you have ruthlessly weeded out all the little things that were nigling you about your saga.
Thanks for the great resource.