The greatest challenge in rewriting your book is making a thousand small changes while staying true to your narrative voice. In this practical day-by-day guide to revising your manuscript, you will:
- End procrastination by breaking your work down into manageable tasks
- Learn the technical skills necessary to bring your prose to life
- Discover how to write compelling dialogue
- Solve narrative problems of structure, point of view and pacing
- Learn how to sell and market your book once it is completed
The material in this book was developed in Alan Watt's writing workshops to help writers who were getting bogged down by the myriad vagaries of the rewrite process. By setting goals and having clearly defined guideposts this process has helped many writers complete their work in a timely manner.
As the rewrite process involves moving between the left and right brain, this workbook is structured to approximate that experience.
- The first section, Preparation, contains an overview of the process and an in-depth discussion of story structure. It is followed by a series of left-brain Technical Matters.
- The second section is the 90-Day Rewrite workshop method divided into thirteen weeks that address key stages in the protagonist's journey. The weekly summaries provide an overview of the work to be covered that week, while the daily letters are focused on various aspects of the process and offer a single daily directive.
- The third section discusses what to do with your manuscript once you have completed your rewrite.
Hi, I'm Al. They call me the Writer Whisperer.I'm the L.A. Times bestselling author of the novels, Diamond Dogs and Days Are Gone, and the recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award, a Book Sense Pick, a New York Time's New and Noteworthy book pick, and winner of France's Prix Printemps for best foreign novel of the year. Along with the national bestseller, The 90-Day Novel(R), (Amazon's #1 book on writing for five months) the lab has published five other books on writing. I teach a process of marrying the wildness of your imagination to the rigor of structure, and my students span the range from first-time writers to best-selling authors and filmmakers who've won numerous accolades for their work including the Pulitzer Prize.I'm also the writer/director of the independent feature, Eddie, Kill the President (formerly Interior Night), which won four best feature awards at U.S. film festivals as well as The Boston Film Festival's Filmmaker Visionary Award. Oh, I also had a small part on Seinfeld back in the 90s when I had a thick lustrous head of chestnut hair. It's the Chinese gum episode. I'm the movie theater vendor who sells Kramer the vile hotdog.
