Keep reading for tips, methods and ideas about each of these stages, supplemented by reading from the Now Novel blog.ĭiscovery: Finding and investigating writing ideas This is the writing that puts the story you’ve labored over in the right hands. Isn’t the writing process over at this stage? Not at all – your query letters, story pitches, blurbs, review requests and other matter will be some of the most important material of the entire writing process. While revision entails making decisions about the content of your story, editing involves making decisions about the presentation of that content – how best to make the story more impactful and polished. The process of reviewing what you’ve written, deciding what to keep (and which ‘darlings’ to ‘kill’). Once you are comfortable to share your work-in-progress (WIP), you may share early drafts with a trusted friend, writing coach or critique circle for perspective and insight. Writing feedback and story development.Try different approaches and techniques to shake up your usual writing habits. Drafting may be fast or slow, depending on your preferred methods. You write narration, exposition, scenes, chapters (depending on your story’s format). Depending on whether you’re a ‘plotter’ or ‘pantser’ (more on this below), this may include outlining, brainstorming, freewriting, or other common prewriting techniques. The preparation to write before drafting begins. This is the investigative stage of finding the seed for a story with the most potential. Before you can draft, you need an idea, a premise. Yet these seven see a story from first idea to publication: Some writing schools and authors divide writing into four stages, some five. Writing process stages: 7 areas of practice
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