Questions 492: Clean Copy Mindset
Subscribe Here! Ian asks: Do you have any tips on developing a “clean copy” mindset? Resources Mentioned: Hadrian’s Flight by J. Daniel Sawyer
Question 421: Revisionism
Subscribe Here! Kelson asks, “What advice can you give for a first time reviser?”
Questions 279: Save the Darlings!!!
Subscribe Here! Chris asks: “If storytelling is a gut instinct, should we still kill our darlings?” Resources mentioned: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Republic by Plato The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn by Piers Anthony Very Bad Deaths by Spider Robinson …
Questions 200: What Happens When Your Story Doesn’t Work?
Subscribe Here! Ed asks: “What happens when your story doesn’t work?”
Questions 185: Do Not Rewrite? Are You Crazy!?
Subscribe Here! Dan Dan The Art Man asks: “I’m really struggling with Heinlein’s Third Rule. How can you NOT rewrite and still turn out good stories? Can we fix stories before we abandon them?” Books discussed: The Republic by Plato
Questions 91: Revising Old Books–Whether, When, and How
Subscribe Here! JR asks: “What do you do when you find a plot error after it’s released?”
Questions 57: Interpreting Feedback From Betas
Subscribe Here! JR asks: “How do I figure out what advice to listen to where my beta readers are concerned?”