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These are some things I learned from a class on revision by Kate Messner.
This is the last advice for writer's post that I will be doing for awhile. I can do more, but I mostly only have miscellaneous advice, not whole classes. REVISION, revising your story Tips:
This information I learned from a writer's class by Barbara Rosenstock. (Most of these notes are copied from the class, but I added a little to explain it better.)
This author had an acronym, ARMS, Adding, Removing, Moving, Substituting to describe what revision is like. Add sentences or words, remove what you don't need, move things around to make more sense, and substitute words. Take a weak word and replace it with a strong word.
You don't have to do this to every sentence, especially if you are writing a long story, but change the generic, boring sentences. (She was pretty. It was hot. etc.)
Weak verbs: am, is, come, do, does, put, leave, left, know. Weak adjectives (descriptive words): hot, cold, slow. These are boring! Strong adjectives: moody, careless, vast, cranky, swift. (These are just examples.) Describe your nouns (person, place or thing). |
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