Write Yourself Into a Pit (Then Dig Your Way Out Again)

Sometimes royally screwing with your plot is the only way to fix it…
5 Steps to Magically Whipping a Shitty First Draft into Shape

It’s a beautifully crafted literary masterpiece in your head, but miserable on paper. So how do you get from ‘pile of words’ to ‘book-shaped thing’ without going utterly and entirely insane through the redrafting process? Here’s a big fucking secret: editing isn’t just about making the words sound right or sticking a comma in the right […]