Revision is one of the most important and significant part of writing. We may spend hours to make the essay, or story. But spend many days to revise your essay or story. Revision, in technical terms is adding, cutting, and moving material from drafts.
Then take a minutes, and look back to your story. Ask yourself:
Does the story reveal spesific information/details?
Does the story achieve verisimilitude?
Is dialogue natural and real?
Is there any sentimentality?
Is the title unique?
Is the writer clear and exact?
Then don't forget to check the grammar, and spelling.
There are also many exersices that will help you to revise your story. I got it from my Fiction Writing class:
Then take a minutes, and look back to your story. Ask yourself:
Does the story reveal spesific information/details?
Does the story achieve verisimilitude?
Is dialogue natural and real?
Is there any sentimentality?
Is the title unique?
Is the writer clear and exact?
Then don't forget to check the grammar, and spelling.
There are also many exersices that will help you to revise your story. I got it from my Fiction Writing class:
- Write a dream or a nightmare that the main character had the day before or the day after the story takes place. It also helps you to know your character deeper.
- Take one sentence from your story, choose the one that is a statement. Change it to paragraph.\
- Take one paragraph from your story, and make it into one sentence.
- Write three new openings. Make it from a different moment. It actually really helps me. My last revision, I made three new openings. When I wrote the third one, somehow I love it than the one on my rough draft. So I took it.
Try and enjoy it! ;)
"Half of my life is an act of revision" -John Irving
Source:
The papers from my Fiction Writing class, and of course Google
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