Writing Excuses 10.47: Q&A on Revision
And now for your questions about revision. Or rather, questions from the WXR attendees, who were aboard the Independence of the Seas with us (the answers to these questions are secreted away in the audio file...): * During revision, when do you think it's acceptable to throw the whole thing out? * How do you fit the whole structure in your head? * What do you find you most often need to add? * What do you do when your revisions have made things worse? * How do you avoid over-writing during the revision process? * When revising, how many passes do you make, and what order are they in? * Do you take the sounds of words into account when writing and revising? This episode was engineered aboard The Independence of the Seas by Bert Grimm, and mastered in a concrete bunker somewhere in the midwest by Alex Jackson.