{"id":45570,"date":"2019-03-14T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T18:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45570"},"modified":"2019-03-13T23:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T03:49:25","slug":"how-to-fix-revision-rips-in-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/how-to-fix-revision-rips-in-your-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Revision Rips in Your Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the revision process, writers might realize that scenes or chapters must be cut in some places, and added in others. Editing a manuscript this way means tearing out pieces of the carefully crafted tapestry of your work.\u00a0In a post on the <em>Writers Helping Writers<\/em> blog, Jami Gold offers her advice on repairing those rends, so that your story remains a cohesive whole. &#8220;Every piece of the story is affected by what came before and likewise affects what comes after,&#8221; Gold writes. &#8220;Plot revelations and character epiphanies don\u2019t happen in a vacuum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before anything is changed, Gold advises writers to consider what&#8217;s important in a scene that needs to be removed and ensure those still-relevant plot points or character moments are incorporated elsewhere. For scenes to be added, she suggests carefully considering why this new scene is important and must be added.<\/p>\n<p>Gold also offers input on how to fit new scenes into a manuscript or repair holes left by deletions. She also provides a handy checklist of items to review once the immediate editing is completed, such as references to deleted scenes or foreshadowing that goes nowhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writershelpingwriters.net\/2019\/03\/story-threads-fixing-rips-in-our-story\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/AS1d9dT3yEs?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Javid Naderi<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/tapestry?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the revision process, writers might realize that scenes or chapters must be cut in some places, and added in others. Editing a manuscript this way means tearing out pieces of the carefully crafted tapestry of your work.\u00a0In a post on the Writers Helping Writers blog, Jami Gold offers her advice on repairing those rends, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,484],"tags":[452,487],"class_list":["post-45570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-craft-work","tag-craft","tag-story-structure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45633,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45570\/revisions\/45633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}