Holly Lisle. How To Revise Your Novel: Get the Book You Want From the Book You Wrote, by Holly Lisle

The thing no one tells you is that revising a novel is MUCH more difficult than writing it in the first place.  However, this is something you discover on your own the first time you try it.

Most writer start revising on word one of page one, working through the book one line at a time…and therein lies the reason they don't get a revision that makes the book better.

They're starting with Cosmetic Surgery Revision…but their patient---their story---is in dire need of Trauma Triage and Major Surgery.  They're trying to fix compound fractures, a flail chest, a ripped artery and a blocked airway by doing a nose job…and they can't figure out why their story isn't getting any better.

Before you even touch the manuscript with a pen, you have to figure out what your target is; you have to discover what promises you made to the reader (not just the ones you KNOW you made, but all the ones you made accidentally, and all the ones that EVERY novel must fulfill); you have to diagnose your scenes to see where they hold together and where they fall apart;  you have to differentiate between your primary plot, your secondary plots, and any NotPlots you've committed…and much, much more.

The reason even professional novelists languish for months or years in revision hell is because they don't know how to do these things.

After more than 33 first-draft revisions on more than thirty novels, many done to deadlines as tight as one week, I've learned.  And I can show you exactly how to take your first-draft book apart and turn it into the story you had in mind before you wrote the first word---no matter how wrecked your manuscript is.

The course is 22 weeks long, and sells for five monthly payments of $49.95. (Course value: $249.75)

One Savvy Authors winner will receive a full scholarship to this course.

EVERY write who signs up for the Revise Your Novel priority notification list will receive a copy of my e-book, "The 101 Worst Things That Go Wrong In First Draft."
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Holly Lisle has been writing with intent to publish for twenty-five years, and has been working as a full-time professional novelist since November of 1992, when she invited friends over, burned her nursing uniforms in her back yard, and set off on the wild adventure that has enriched and consumed her life ever since.  Holly has published more than thirty novels in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, paranormal suspense, romantic suspense, and YA with Baen, Time-Warner, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Penguin-Putnam, Tor, and more, has more than a million books in print, and has novels published around the world and translated into many languages.

For the last few years, along with continuing to write fiction, she's made time in her writing schedule for creating courses on writing, publishing, and revision, and her How To Think Sideways and How To Revise Your Novel courses receive rave reviews from students, and fill promptly whenever she opens the doors to accept new students.