Step 1: Revise Your Novel with Me! ➡️ Monthly Guide to Developmental Edits for Neurodivergents
Even if you've never fully revised a book before, or if you just hate the way you've been doing it so far, you are welcome here 😁Find options that work for you.
Remember when I said this on my site index page…
🧰I’m building a developmental editing tool for your book:
I’m developing a master template and beginners’ course on how to track your progress in revisions without losing your mind. You know that feeling when you’ve just finished a book and don’t know how you’re ever going to determine when it’s done? I got tired of asking this question, so I built a concrete framework to answer that question myself once and for all.
I’m making a big draft overview tool that works to identify when all the plot holes are patched, whether you’re neurodivergent, a plotter, or a pantser. Then you’ll know what your book needs the most so that you can ask beta readers more helpful questions moving forward. It allows you to work in any order you want without getting lost!
The course will be done when I’ve tested out every part of it thoroughly.
Here it is.
I’m ready to share this revisions guide with you now that my humorous science-fiction series The Intergalactizen’s Guide to Taming Earthlings is complete & published here on 🎊Substack🎉:
Now I’m going to apply this new method I created to do a developmental revision on another novel – one that I drafted years ago that’s been awaiting revisions, and you can follow along to revise your novel with me and watch me do this! (moments of screaming and new eurekas will be included)
This post is the first installment, now being released as once a month posts for paid subscribers. As it is planned now, it will finish in one year. I’ll give you the tool with a step-by-step of how to build one for your novel so you can revise right along with me 😁.
This tool:
Fits all genres and plot structures
Is FULLY customizable to fit your needs
Allows you to revise in any order and see multiple layers at a glance
Does not require any spreadsheets (If you really wanted to use spreadsheets with it though, then you’re free to do that).
Doesn’t require you to buy any software.
Step 1: The prep
What do you have on the pages?
One of the biggest problems I’ve had with various revisions courses in the past is that they didn’t take into consideration that we are all coming into this from very different places.
This will help you find your own way through it by giving you options. That means you’re welcome to try following these steps in order, but I will list alternative steps in each post that can help you accomplish the same thing in another way that might work better for you.
If you read a step and can’t do it, then don’t worry.
Just go on to the next one. It’s structured in a way to help you, even if you vary the order of the steps a bit.
Step 1: Is your WIP currently a wild brain dump of scenes/notes that doesn’t flow together?
If you answered yes, then stay here with this step.
If you answered no, (maybe you’d done some prior planning before writing your draft, etc.) then move on to the next step.
To follow along with building this Story Atlas for your book for the next year, sign up for a paid subscription (It’s the equivalent of buying me a $5 coffee break each month).