Find me at my blog WORD WELL

You can now find me at my blog, WORD WELL, where I will be posting about digging deep into the word well to write for the MG/YA reader. 

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5 Questions to Pose when Revising

1.) If you take the protagonist as he is in the final scene and drop him back into the first scene of the book, will he behave so differently that you wouldn’t even have a story?

2.) Did you force your protagonist out of his comfort zone at crucial moments?

3.) Has each obstacle pushed the plot and characters forward?

4.) Are the consequences of failure dire enough at each stage of the plot?

5.) Does each scene in each chapter contribute to its chapter’s overall goal, and does every chapter contribute to the character’s achievement of his story goal?

What questions do you ask yourself before revising?

-- Sandra Havriluk