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DTW Q&A 008

How do you revise?

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Julie Falatko
Dec 08, 2022
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Kara asks:

What are your revision techniques? Do they differ across genres?

Well, I’ll tell you how I revise and leave it up to you to decide whether or not it’s a technique.

I start longhand. I freewrite about what I want the story to be, ideas I have, and start writing whatever comes to me. It’s a mess, both visually and draft-wise.

At some point I have…

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