In a post on Lit Hub, Marcy Dermansky offers advice for revising your novel without making yourself crazy.
We’ve all been there: working on a novel that isn’t working, no matter how much feedback we get or how many revisions we’ve made. The fun is gone and we start to resent our work. The novel we’ve worked on for months – or years – gets put aside.
But that’s ok. “Writing, contrary to popular belief, should not be a form of suffering,” Dermansky says. “Writing can be a form of absolute play; you never know what you are going to write. Even if you have an outline, you still don’t know.”
Editing and revision are hard, but they should also be fun, she says. “While making a book better, new ideas keep coming in,” Dermansky writes.
