Your Next Draft

Alice Sudlow
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Your Next Draft

Your Next Draft is the fiction writer's guide to developmental editing. What do you do after your first draft? How do you flesh out flat characters, fill in plot holes, and hook your readers from the first page to the last? What does editing a novel even mean? Developmental editor and book coach Alice Sudlow answers all these questions and more. Each week, she shares the editing strategies she's using with her one-on-one clients so you can put them to use in your own novel. Tune in for tips, tools, and step-by-step guides for the novel editing process.

  1. 8月27日

    How to Edit Your Novel When Disaster Strikes

    Your book is important. But sometimes, worthy interruptions will delay it for a while.For the last few months, this podcast feed has been quiet. It went dark with no notice in mid-June.I didn’t mean to disappear on you. In fact, I didn’t plan to pause the podcast at all.But a family emergency struck, and all my best-laid plans for summer 2024 changed in a matter of hours.This summer, I learned what it takes to edit when your world is in crisis.Happily, for me and my family, the crisis is over...

    17 分钟

  2. 6月18日

    How Taylor Jenkins Reid Crafts an Exceptional Opening Scene

    Your reader experiences your story one scene at a time. Make every scene un-put-down-able.Great stories are made of great scenes.Sure, your novel has a clever plot with twists and turns from the first page to the last. But the way your readers will experience that plot is . . .. . . one scene at a time.Which means if you want your readers to fall in love with your novel, you need to captivate them with scenes they can’t put down.How do you do it?I’ll show you in this episode. I’m analyzing a ...

    30 分钟

  3. 6月4日

    2 “Showing” and "Telling" Ways to Convey Time Passing in Your Novel

    Show and tell your readers why time matters to your characters.Time matters.When you look up and it’s dark outside, time matters to you.When your characters look around and summer is turning into fall, time matters to them.When your readers are reading a novel and they can’t figure out how time is passing? Well, time matters to them, too—mostly because they’re confused.In this episode, I’m sharing two ways to make time matter to your readers the way it matters to your characters.That is, how ...

    17 分钟

  4. 5月21日

    3 “Telling” Ways to Convey Time Passing in Your Novel

    Don’t lose your readers. Just tell them what time it is.The passage of time seems intuitive. It just happens, right? (Like, whether you want it to or not. Time and tide wait for no man, etc.)Here’s the thing, though. If you don’t tell your readers that time is passing in your novel . . .. . . they won’t know.It seems wild, I know. It feels like time passing should be obvious. But I promise you, it’s not.Luckily, conveying the passage of time to your readers is simple (and it doesn’t take a lo...

    28 分钟

  5. 5月7日

    Why You Must Show Time Passing in Your Novel

    This is often overlooked, but it’s essential for great stories.How do you make time pass?Well, when you’re living your regular life in the real world, you don’t have to do anything.Time is constantly passing, no matter what you do. And when a timer goes off, or you look outside and see the sun’s gone down, or you feel your stomach growl with hunger, you notice time has passed.You hardly have to think about it. It’s just happening, all around you, all the time.In your novel, though—well, there...

    16 分钟

  6. 4月23日

    When Should You Practice, and When Should You Publish?

    Write your best stories—and know when to let go and publish them.In order to write great books, you first have to learn how to write great books.But when it comes to writing, there’s always something more to learn.So how do you know when to practice your writing skills—and more importantly, when to publish the stories you’re creating?That’s what I’m talking about in this episode.In it, you’ll learn:2 benefits and 1 danger of spending focused time learning new writing skillsThe joy—and risk!—o...

    18 分钟

  7. 4月9日

    You Can't Skip Learning How to Write a Novel. Here's Why

    Before you can master writing great stories, you have to learn to craft great stories. When I was fifteen, I got my learner’s permit and began learning how to drive a car.This made me very unhappy.See, I wanted to know how to drive a car. I didn’t want to learn to drive a car.Knowing how to drive a car was fun, freeing, and exciting. Learning to drive a car was dangerous, tedious, dangerous, difficult, and also dangerous.Writers, I find, feel the same way about writing great books.Writers wan...

    21 分钟

  8. 3月26日

    4 Tips for Your First Time Working With an Editor

    Because working with an editor should be delightful, not scary.Let's be honest. When you start working with an editor for the first time, it can feel a little scary.You’re sharing your manuscript, the project you’ve worked so hard on, with a stranger on the internet. You’re inviting another person into a process that up until now has been entirely solo.And you’re entering an industry of professionals that’s probably entirely new to you. What should you expect? And what’s expected of you?In th...

    20 分钟
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Your Next Draft is the fiction writer's guide to developmental editing. What do you do after your first draft? How do you flesh out flat characters, fill in plot holes, and hook your readers from the first page to the last? What does editing a novel even mean? Developmental editor and book coach Alice Sudlow answers all these questions and more. Each week, she shares the editing strategies she's using with her one-on-one clients so you can put them to use in your own novel. Tune in for tips, tools, and step-by-step guides for the novel editing process.

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  • 创作者
    Alice Sudlow
  • 活跃年份
    2022年 - 2024年
  • 单集
    75
  • 分级
    儿童适宜
  • 版权
    © 2024 Your Next Draft
  • 节目网站
    Your Next Draft

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