How to revise your rough draft of a novel

How to write a novel, Part Two
Extracts from Jane Smiley's 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

This is the long-promised follow-on from How to finish the rough draft of a novel which I posted in July. Because once you've finished your rough draft of a novel: then what?

As I said in July: I always try to take so-called novel-writing advice with a huge pinch of salt. This does not stop me from being addicted to how-to books, brimming with novel-writing advice. Jane Smiley is more conducive than most. Here are some of her nuggets of wisdom in condensed and schematised form. Posted here for my own referencing convenience and, as a fringe benefit, for the interests of anybody else as well. :-) Plus some navel-gazingnesses of my own.

Headings in bold. Smiley in Roman. Me and my own mustard (as they say in German) in italics.

Note also that my italic thoughts at the moment are in part geared towards my long-unfinished Karl/Dom fic, begun in 2002 and re-read by me over the week-end. I'm trying to figure out whether Smiley's system can help me to finish this fic.

( How to revise your rough daft of a novel )

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