Much needed advice for me, thought I’d share. 🙂
I’ve been considering the topic of content edits over the last few days, since I’m dealing with a first round of edits right now. Today I wanted to focus on something that is obvious for us writers: so obvious that we sometimes forget to do it.
When you realize that something in your plot doesn’t hold together, it’s important to ask why that is before trying to fix the story.
MASKING VERSUS CORRECTING
You see, masking a problem versus fixing it can be two different things.
When you–or your editor and beta readers–don’t focus on the reason that some aspect of your plot isn’t holding up, your chances of just masking the issue, rather than fixing it, go up.
If a character is acting inconsistently–propounding one point of view in one scene and then acting against it with no real consideration of it in a future scene, the real issue…
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