Jul. 5th, 2024

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Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell

A personal discussion of how he writes and revises. He warns it may not be applicable generally -- and I note he tends to start at the beginning, which may not be so useful for people whose ideas are different times in the story. Some useful notes. I note that much of what he says about first drafts can be usefully applied to outlines. On the other hand, the passage about removing your logic, so the readers can instead make up their own motives for elliptic comments and the like -- well, check your genre; my experience with beta readers is that they complain about logic not being fully put in.

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