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...

I'm revising lightly as I go through the manuscript again, but it's not easy to face the truth of what's on paper.  I put this o...

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

Over the course of a lifetime—from the time as children when a parent or adult begins reading books aloud to us to the time when we can...

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...