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Questions for Stephen Project Work Time: Revising, Rewriting, Building Better Stories Revising Checklists Galore IRON OUT THE BIG ISSUES FIRST! What's the point in spending hours refining things at the sentence level if you still have some major story level (plot, character) issues! You'll end up deleting things that you've spent a lot of time on, and while that's not inherently bad, it does get a little frustrating... "Need to know how well your writing, editing and revisions are going? Here’s a variety of checklists to help you evaluate where you are in the writing process." I've selected a couple of the ones below that I think are most helpful for our purposes. But, if you'd like to look around yourself, I highly encourage you to do that by clicking the link above. Mild: Revision Checklist for Novelist - Wow. This is a great checklist. Even though it's geared towards a novel, it still hits a lot of the major elements that we've been talking about the last 2 weeks. Medium: 10 Checkpoints for a Scene - The scene is the basic unit in writing. Your stories are most likely built around a few key scenes. Use this checklist and its big, open-ended questions to think about how well you are constructing your scene(s). Spicy: Style: Checklist for Fiction Writers - Crawford Killian is a Canadian novelist and professor. Use this checklist for improving your writing style once you've already hammered out the basics of your story (basics = character's desire, results, responses; specific details used consistently throughout the story)
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