Expanding Your Story

21 June 2010 | Filed Under Revising 

Have you ever received the comment, “you need to expand this?”

Sometimes it’s a good reminder. When you’re writing, your mind flies so much faster than your hand. You might have left out sentences that could help the reader follow the action.

But sometimes you feel that you have nothing to expand. Maybe you wrote twice as much description as you normally do, or you wrote every thought your character had. What’s left to expand?

Part of my revision this time around is focused on expanding what I already have. Mostly this involves adding new scenes and extending old ones.

I like to write concisely, so expanding can be a difficult task for me.

How do you expand your story?

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