Every first Wednesday of the month, the IWSG (Insecure Writer’s Support Group) engages writers to share their fears, thoughts, progress, struggles, excitement, encouragement, or anything really, about their writing.

This amazing, supportive group of writers was founded by Alex J. Cavanaugh. Today, the co-hosts are Lee Lowery, Juneta Key, Yvonne Ventresca, and T. Powell Coltrin. Feel free to swing by their sites and see what they’re up to.

Revising and editing

I planned to title this blog “deep revision,” until I looked up what revising actually means and how it’s different from editing. Revising is about the content while editing is about sentence-level issues and typos. Basically, a deep revision would mean butchering your manuscript and rewriting parts of it. That might happen in the future if I were to find an agent/publisher, but it’s not exactly what I have been doing lately. I’ve been busy “editing.” Lots of it! Good thing I enjoy that part as much as the writing itself.

Book progress

When I sent my manuscript to beta readers last summer, my biggest request was how to cut the prose: “Which parts could be cut? What’s boring or doesn’t add to the overall story?”

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