Revision

Maybe you wrote a novel in 30 days. Maybe it's a hot mess and now you're wondering how to edit it—or even if you want to edit it.

Perhaps if you look at it as an evolving adventure that is destined to go through many rewrites, becoming better and better each time before it's published, you might see that editing is a magical part of the journey.

Your novel is your baby; talk to it, ask it what it wants and needs in order to grow, to evolve, to be the best story it can be. Help your manuscript birth itself into a bestseller by giving it lots of loving care and attention.

Survived NaNo

Made it through another NaNo... :)

Ended up writing two novels this year. Well, truth be told, I only actually wrote one.

My magical word fairy wrote her own novel—it's a novella because she's a little fairy and it was a bit difficult for her to jump all over the keyboard to write the words... :) But she was on a novel quest and was bound and determined to write her own novel.

And the good news is I didn't get stuck in 1971 in my time travel novel.

Both books need a serious amount of editing, so it's going to be a while before they see the light of day, but I had a blast doing NaNo and now I'm going to give my fingers a well-deserved rest.

True to form, another idea for a nonfiction book for writers was born during NaNo.

It's got something to do with writing a 50,000-word novel in thirty days... :)