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Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction (edition 1997)

by David Michael Kaplan

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Kaplan teaches revision as a creative, open-minded re-imagining that leads to better fiction. He then traces the revision process in three of his own stories -- providing strategies to help readers improve their own work.
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Title:Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction
Authors:David Michael Kaplan
Info:Story Press Books (1997), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 226 pages
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I have read at least 4 or 5 books on editing and revising your written work and at least a dozen that also touch on the subject in some way and yet this is by far the best boon on revising and editing that I have found.

This book is well written, easy to follow and has an order to revising that actually makes sense to me. I've tried so many different things to get my novels going and even while reading them they made little to know sense and left me wondering "Why would you do it this way?". But this book, I never asked the question, not once.

Besides all that, the author gives easy to understand explanations to all his examples and all his examples are well written and done up and allow you to follow from first draft to final and at times from final to first. The stories are entertaining and everything in between stays up and running which allows this non-fiction book on "Revision" to remain just as readable as any fiction book out there. ( )
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