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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

What I'm Working on This Week

Posted on 07:00 by blogger

This week, I'm diving in to my first revision of my new sekrit book, which I finished last week. This is a really important part of the process. When you write something for the first time, you'll be very tempted to think that it's finished. If you're anything like me, you'll certainly want it to be finished, because you'll be raring to move on to the next thing you want to write! But everything gets better with revision. This is an important lesson in writing. The revision process is even more important than the first draft, so take it seriously--and don't skip it!

If I can get good revision work done early this week, I may have time to send out picture book submissions to editors. That's the one thing off last week's list that didn't get done. I did, however, get a newsletter sent out. If you're not signed up for my newsletter, scroll down on the page and look for the place to put in your e-mail address!

Also, at some point soon, I need to rescue my car, which slid off the icy hill and into a ditch on Saturday. But since we're still iced in, it doesn't really matter anyway...

Hope you have a good week. Get some writing done!
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