What to do when your Novel is a Beautiful Mess

17/05/2023 1h 0min
What to do when your Novel is a Beautiful Mess

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Episode Synopsis

Even published authors have problems getting the magical stories in their heads into finished manuscript. But Anne Lamott’s account of how, over the course of three years, she completely rewrote what would be her second novel several times, probably deserves a prize for perseverance (or stubbornness). In this podcast we discuss what was wrong with each of those drafts and the techniques she used to fix them. We even try her idea of writing a plot treatment for our own chapters.