Animating Your Work as You Go: Revising by Rereading and Rewriting
Want a living, breathing work of fiction? Writing is a recursive process. Two steps forward and one step back. Sometimes, it becomes one step forward and two steps back. When you have “finished” a chapter in a novel, it is tempting to press forward without returning to the previous work. Stop. Go back. Go back often over the work you have already written. As much as this process may feel frustrating when you want to move toward story conclusion and novel completion, it is nec
