Good Advice For Any Writer Or Those Aspiring To Write.

Good advice for any writer or those aspiring to write.

How do you start a second draft? I just finished my first one and I'm having a hard time getting in there to start changing things because it just seems like a lot to sift through

Print out your book on paper.

Then find time when you won’t be disturbed, and read it. With a pen, or a pencil. And anything you don’t like as a reader, make a note in the margin, or change it on the page.

Look particularly for things that you were hoping would be better. Mark them in the margin too. 

And then work out what you need to do on the second draft. Basically, anything you didn’t like as a reader you get to fix as a writer.

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7 years ago

I would really like to own all of these as well.

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6 years ago

Beautiful

Yinka Shonibare’s Art Installation, The American Library, In The Downtown Branch Of The Cleveland Public
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Yinka Shonibare’s art installation, The American Library, in the downtown branch of the Cleveland Public Library. 

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6 years ago

Wow, this artist's work is studio ghibli level amazing. The use of simplistic forms to portray a highly detailed narrative; it really does "paint a picture" (story) in my mind. What a world they have created.

Ikegami Yoriyuki
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Ikegami Yoriyuki

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3 years ago

Beautiful! I want it.

Fables From Aesop By James Reeves, 1961. Illustrated By Maurice Wilson
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7 years ago

One of my favorite movies

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4 years ago
Saw This On Facebook. Reposting For The PSA.

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3 years ago

🌈The more you know!

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

6 years ago

Good information to know for story tellers.

The Land Of Fairy, Where Nobody Gets Old And Godly And Grave, Where Nobody Gets Old And Crafty And Wise,
The Land Of Fairy, Where Nobody Gets Old And Godly And Grave, Where Nobody Gets Old And Crafty And Wise,
The Land Of Fairy, Where Nobody Gets Old And Godly And Grave, Where Nobody Gets Old And Crafty And Wise,
The Land Of Fairy, Where Nobody Gets Old And Godly And Grave, Where Nobody Gets Old And Crafty And Wise,
The Land Of Fairy, Where Nobody Gets Old And Godly And Grave, Where Nobody Gets Old And Crafty And Wise,
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the land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

6 years ago

True.. true..

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3 years ago
Just A Little Lichen Lad Saying Hello...

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-Just Me [In my 30s going on eternity] (A Random Rambling Wordy Nerd and an appreciator of all forms of artistic expression) Being Me- Art, Books, Fantasy, Folklore, Literature, and the Natural World are my Jam.

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