CONGRATULATIONS! YOU MADE IT!
We hope #ReVISIONweek provided much-needed light during a very dark time.
We have lots of fabulous prizes up for grabs.
Here’s what you need to do to enter to win.
- Be sure your name is in the comments on the sign-up post.
- Read through each post, and comment if you wish.
- Add your name and one #ReVISIONweek accomplishment you’d like to share in the comments on THIS post. (This is your way to enter to win a prize.)
That’s it! It’s as easy as 1…2…3.
We want to give you extra time to read the posts and revise so you have until Friday, October 27th to enter to win. Winners will be selected on Tuesday, October 31st.
Thanks for revising with us!
Feel. Write. Risk.
Lauren, Joana, Katie, Lynne, Michal, and Shannon (and our FABULOUS guest blogger, Stacia Deutsch!)
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Insight and Inspiration 
Thanks for another fun week of revising. I really tried to add more sensory details to my WIP and concentrate on setting.
Thank you all for doing this again! I wrote a manuscript in September, am gathering critiques and loving the suggestions from these posts as well as the personal feedback I’ve been getting to help strengthen my story! I’ve already implemented a few new ideas.
This really helped me focus on one story instead the of 14 I usually hop around with! The tips were so useful – thanks! I’ve got my revision sent out for peer and professional critiques.
Angel Gantnier. I completed five revisions on one manuscript.
Thanks for all the helpful tips. I went through my manuscript and replaced “blah” words with more specific nouns and jazzier verbs.
The manuscript I had been dreading revising because the set up wasn’t working because my goal wasn’t clear because I was dancing around the issue because I hadn’t yet realized I personally needed to deal with how hard it is to be a mom in New Jersey… you know that one? I revised it! Thank you to all you lovely ladies for the coaching that got me there. Katie’s advice to push the pain of revising kept me going. (Plus I rode that excitement through a rhyming revision and filling in the holes on a draft. Phew!)
WOW, Lauri! Congratulations! You pushed through the pain and came out in a fabulous place!
INSOMNIA COOKIES!!! Why do I have to live so far away! Good luck to everyone who wants the cyberprizes! But if you can go see Lauren and get cookies — a double prize!
Thanks for a great reVISION week! I focused on the details in one of my manuscripts to see if I could amp up the humor–catch phrases, quirky characteristics, and nervous “tells,” oh my!
Thank you all so much for a helpful week of tips and tricks! I put writing on hold for a while as life happened, but I dug out two flat manuscripts and fluffed them up. Appreciate all you do for the KidLit community!
Thank you Lauren, Joana, Katie, Lynne, Michal, and Shannon and Stacia! With your invaluable input in mind, I’ve revisited my work, focusing on goal posts, sensory details to enhance setting, specificity and the strategic placement of words. Thank you for your support and collaborative spirit.
So many helpful tips this week… it’s spurred me on to revise two manuscripts for voice, narrative structure, and language specificity. The best part though has been the daily motivation in my inbox!
Re-enVISIONing a manuscript & wrestling with the ending. In looking to include juicier language, I jotted down as many words as I could that relate to the MC’s species. Today, I intend to look at those narrative arc goal posts mentioned yesterday & see if I can score further progress on this WIP. Thank you all for these very helpful posts. I’ve bookmarked many of them for future reference!
Thanks for letting me join late! These posts are high quality and I benefitted greatly.
All of the posts this week were helpful. I took a manuscript I had been working on and switched up the dialogue a bit and tried to revise some of my verbs so they were more action focused and more fun! I made my character more memorable I think! Thank you! #ReVISIONweek Mary Beth Rice rmbrice6@gmail.com
Thank you so much for all the tips and advice from this week! It was my first #ReVISIONweek and it changed the way I approach and even think about my revisions. So many great, specific ideas that I’m already putting to use! My win is getting a manuscript ready enough to send to a critique partner. ☺️
Thank you for the ReVision week coordination! All of the posts and Zoom call were so helpful to give me a jump start on a PB revision. The narrative arc post was especially helpful, and I’ve made my dark moment a little darker to have a better pivot!
I made great progress with a difficult revision. Thanks for the great tips. The posts were just the push I needed to get the work done.
This week just reading each post was an accomplishment, but now I have great ways to focus my revisions next week. Because, you know, next week I’ll have more time.
Teresa Fales
Thanks for all the fun tips and advice this week. I just got home today and your book is in my giant stack of mail, yay!! Thank you! Looking forward to Second Star!
Thank you all! This week has been inspirational and motivational. I have been revising a few pieces for the last two months and this week has focused me. Once area where I spent time with was to really look at the emotional resonance in my manuscripts.
Mary Warth
Catherine Friess: After a slow start I had a really productive #ReVISIONweek. I ruthlessly edited a rhyming picture book and rewrote the ending. I just need to tweak it a little more then send it out to my critique group 🙂
Thank you for a great series of essays. I really appreciate the extra time to revise! I haven’t been able to do any writing this week due to a nasty cold, but I’ll check in again once I’ve been able to do so. I love revision week!
Well, revision just isn’t going to work for me this time. But I still loved all the posts, and I’ll try again next year! Thanks for another terrific event.
I’m so glad you were here even if revising didn’t happen. Showing up is 90% of the battle. Sending good vibes your way!
Thanks for a great week. I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished anything yet but I’ve got some great new tools to use.
Thank you to everyone! You’ve shared lots of tips for our personal toolboxes. I’ve stretched Revision Week to a little longer and by now I can see that you’ve created a whole trove of outstanding crafty habits for us to play with and own. So glad to have participated! Thank you again.
I especially took to heart the suggestion about using specific verbs to help the reader feel what the MC is experiencing. And since my ms is about SEL, it’s all the more reason to practice this skill. Thanks again for all of the support and encouragement!
This week has been so helpful as always! I found a new way to tackle a rhyming PB using the tip of writing it first in prose. I also tried to channel a favorite character to give it more pop. It’s nowhere near done but I have direction now of how to revise. Thank you all!
NATALIE LYNN TANNER: Once again a FABULOUS #reVISIONweek to get the wheels turning again—especially the wheels of MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for this MUCH-NEEDED PUSH!!! Each post TRULY INSPIRED me and has helped me look at my manuscripts with new eyes. I CAN’T WAIT to try ALL of your tips! This week I kept thinking about Joanna’s suggestion to TRULY look at each word to evoke the right feelings. I looked back at the #50PreciousWords stories I wrote to remind myself that I ACTUALLY CAN write WITHOUT using a BAZILLION words. Length is what I STRUGGLE with the most, and for picture books . . . well, you all know the word restraints. So, I looked at my #50PreciousWords stories (which were ACTUALLY LESS THAN 50 WORDS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!), and then turned to one of my lengthier manuscripts. Then I began to go line-by-line and word-by-word to see how I could evoke the same emotion and get my story across without overwhelming the text and the reader. I plan to do this with all of my stories in the future. I also wanted to mention that I REALLY NEEDED Lauren’s words of INSPIRATION to go back to the beginning, to remember WHY I started writing my story—to rediscover its heart. THANK YOU for ALL the INSPIRATION, LADIES, and for sharing your time, prizes, and AMAZING talents to MOTIVATE us and take our stories to the next level! And THANK YOU to my fellow #reVISIONweekers whose comments BOLSTERED me on, TOO!!! HAPPY WRITING—AND REVISING!!!
Thanks for another helpful ReVISION Week! It inspired me to pull out some older manuscripts I’ve been putting off revising.