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Tackling the Big Rewrites
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Tackling the Big Rewrites

POV changes, tense changes—should you edit what you have or start over?

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Susan Dennard
Mar 09, 2023
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A screen shot of Susan's edits on Screechers in track changes--lots of deletions and adds!
Here’s a screen shot of the latest tense change to Screechers…

Hilariously, I wrote + scheduled this post two weeks ago…and then three days later, I started making more enormous edits to Screechers. So it would be remiss not to mention my own Big Rewrites with that book that are currently going on.

As I explained a few days ago in this discussion post, I’m planning to share my actual revisions step by step as I go along. So make sure you’re a paid subscriber if you want to see that.

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Now, onto the question and my answer! Please remember I wrote all of this a few days before starting another big Screechers rewrite!

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