First Readers, Revising, & Publication
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who not only won NaNoWriMo but who made ANY progress this month. I finished with 32,000 new words, and I’m really proud of that progress! New words are always better than no words at all. 😉
To wrap up NaNoWriMo and to help all of you forge onward with your new manuscripts, I wanted to share all the posts I’ve ever written about revising a novel, finding a literary agent, and getting traditionally published.
Revising Your Novel
- The Basics of My Revising Process
- Tackling Revisions (printable PDF version)
- Lesson 1: what the heck did you write? (printable PDF version)
- Lesson 2: Let’s get organized (printable PDF version)
- Lesson 3: Dreaming the Perfect Book (printable PDF version)
- Evaluating the Book you Wrote:
- Imagining the Perfect Book:
- Lesson 4: Planning the Attack (printable PDF version)
- Lesson 5: Writing in your changes (printable PDF version)
- Lesson 6: Typing in and Feeling Good (printable PDF version)
- Revisions Don’t Have to Suck
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First Readers
- First Readers and Critique Partners
- Pushing Your Writing to the Next Level, part 2
- The Importance of Beta Readers
- Critique Groups and Critique Partners
- Finding a Crit Group or Beta Reader
- 6 Tips for a Successful Con
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How to Get Published
- How to Get Traditionally Published, part 1
- How to Get Traditionally Published, part 2
- How to Get Traditionally Published, part 3
- Selling a Book on Proposal
- Edit Letters in Traditional Publishing
- Editorial Letters and Line Edits in Traditional Publishing
- Copyedits in Traditional Publishing
- Cover Creation in Traditional Publishing
- Predicting Publishing Trends
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Finding Literary Agents
- Researching Literary Agents
- The Parts of a Good Query (How I Got My Agent, part 1)
- Researching Agents and Preparing to Query (How I Got My Agent, part 2)
- On Query Submissions (How I Got My Agent, part 3)
- Dealing with The Calls (How I Got My Agent, part 4)
- How to write a 1-page synopsis
- What to do when an agent requests your manuscript
- How to handle multiple offers of representation
- Patience While Querying Agents
December 5, 2014 @ 1:43 am
After having successfully completed my first NaNoWriMo event my newborn baby, my darling, needs some serious revision. Other than changing the entire novel from third person to first person I was trying to figure out what comes next. This post is actually what comes next. Thank you very much for this and all of the other posts that you have written as they have been a wealth of information.
December 7, 2014 @ 11:19 pm
Thanks so much for the comment, Donald! And best of luck getting your baby all ready for the publishing world! 😀
November 13, 2015 @ 2:18 am
Actually a year late on this, but this is such an awesome post for me, especially since I’m taking part in NaNoWriMo this year and am in need of major revisions! Thanks for the info, Sooz!