Since November 2009Author Blog: How Sarah Webb's Books Get Edited…
Posted on Saturday, June 27th, 2009 by LeahSarah Webb has written a blog post telling us exactly how her novels go through the writing and editing process. It’s a very interesting read and shows us just how long the editing process is.
Here’s what happens to my novels in a nutshell (the non fiction books are a little different):
1/Finish first draft - now I don’t rewrite much as I go along - so it’s a messy first draft and needs a lot of work.
2/ Print out the whole thing - I can’t edit on screen - I need to scribble - and read through the whole thing - A4 pad by my side, to write on and insert extra scribbled pages into the manuscript as necessary.
I delete scenes/chapters that don’t work, plotlines that go nowhere, delete a lot of descriptive passages and rewrite them in a sentence or two. Work on making each character stronger.
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Wendy Walker, whose debut novel Four Wives was released last year, has her 2nd novel out in September called Social Lives. The cover looks great and I really like it. The synopsis for Social Lives reads:
