A Novel Ending
Writing a novel is hard. Revising a novel can be an even bigger challenge. But don't fret! We have your back. Join us, authors Joanna Mercer and Kat Abbott, as we chat about the highs, lows, and trickeries of taking your first draft to a final, polished manuscript. We hope each episode gives you more tools, inspiration, and motivation to tackle your own revisions. If you love learning about the craft of writing, then this podcast is for you!
A Novel Ending
Revising To Cut Or Increase Your Word Count
Are you the kind of writer who drafts a lot of words, or the kind who drafts short? Particularly with debut novels, agents match genres to preferred word counts in order to gauge if a story is underedited or sparse. These expectations can be a great guideline for any author, helping point us in the right direction for revisions. If you’re staring at a bloated manuscript, or are struggling to beef up that word count, join us in this episode where we explore both big picture ways to cut and add words, as well as share tips on how to do this on a sentence level.
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