wordswimmer

If you want your words to sing on the page you need to keep harmonizing,  keep testing different notes, trying different combinations of ...

How do you know when you're finished revising your manuscript? After the second or third pass, it's easy to believe that you're ...

For my current project I’m re-reading the opening lines again and again, and revising, then re -revising. With each draft I go a little fur...

Sometimes I think revising one’s work is all about letting go. Like when you fly a kite and the wind pulls the string...

If you read only one book about the writing process this year, I hope you'll consider John McPhee's Draft No. 4: On the Writing Proc...

I started a new project in February, and I found myself surprised -- the way I'm always surprised when an idea pops into my head -- that...

How do you learn to dive deep to revise your work? Not just change a comma here, a period there, or correct for grammar, but go really deep ...