Fiction Friday: I Drink Alone
By Leslie Lindsay Still working away on that novel of mine…here we are in 2nd draft re-writes. What’s the difference between re-writing and revising? How about editing? Is that all the same? Well, no. At least I don’t *think* so. Here are my own definitions: Revise. To my ear, this simply means tweaking the words you already have on paper (or screen). It may mean making a statement or description more clear. It may mean switching the order of the sentences…that’s a “new vision,” or a revise. Rewrite. This one sounds harder than revising, and it may be–just depends on where you’re at in the process. Here’s what I think this means…”you’ve got a great concept here, but it sucks like a vacuum. Save the general gist of this piece, but made it much more active by adding in dialogue, subtracting over-zealous amounts of backstory, and removing extra words like ‘had’ and ‘was.’ When I get a submission back with this type of advice, at first I groan and then I have fun because making the …