A 2 Z Blogging Challenge R is for...

 

Research:

Important at any stage of the novel writing process, but you can use this stage to go back over your research and make sure you have everything written down in your Writers Notebook, or on your bio’s for use when retyping your novel.

If there are any holes in your novel’s original research, such as places where you have put [NEED YOUR CHARACTERS PARENTS NAMES AND OCCUPATIONS HERE] (something that I have actually written in my first draft), or [WHERE THE HECK IS THIS HOUSE LOCATED?] is where you research further into these areas.

Review:

This is what you are doing right now, reviewing your novel for the next draft, preparing to write it up, and getting it ready to send out to beta readers to look over so that they can send it back to you with their comments.

Reading:

As writers and authors it is important that we read everything we can get our hands on, before we write the vomit draft, we should be reading what we can within our genre and seeing how others do it, when we are writing that vomit draft we can still read within our genre, or we can read books or sites on our research for our novel, and when we reach this stage, we can web search, or book search for everything we can lay our hands on that is even remotely connected to editing.

Now days there are video classes, and online courses in all areas of writing, a good many of these are out of our financial reach. If you are going to splurge, choose one that comes highly recommended, and will cover everything you need to know.

Record Cards:

Better known as Index Cards, are handy as you can use them in all areas of writing and editing, these can be used to jot down character names and occupations (a short and concise little bio), plot points, and scenes that can be stuck to or pinned to a wall or board to keep you in line with your writing.