Pruning Shears #IWSG

I’m digging into the revision process now, wielding my shears with abandon as I rip out words and lines and paragraphs to let new light into the living, growing core of my story.What’s surprising me is how much fun it is.

What Readers Can’t Do

Yesterday I said that when readers tell us something is wrong in what we write, then by definition something is wrong and we have to listen. However,  not   everything readers say about our writing is true. How do we tell the difference?

What Readers Can Do

Now that I’ve got some people actually reading my words, I’m thinking about what readers can do for writers (besides buying our books, of course!). Back in grad school I took a course on professional writing. This is the first of two posts on what I learned about how to use readers’ advice.