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I am determined to only revise Narrator one more time. And I don’t mean little stuff, I mean a huge overhaul. So I have to make this one count.

Thanks to Story Engineering by Larry Brooks (to be reviewed either Friday or next week), this goal might actually be within my reach. I’m going to try to take everything I’ve learned from this amazing book and apply it to Narrator.

But first, the hard work of planning. Everything’s going into my Ultimate Beat Sheet of Doom.

A normal beat sheet lists every scene in a novel. My beat sheet will do that, plus include all kinds of things like whether the scene is new/old, written/in progress, what my notes are for it, as well as where it is in terms of story structure (see future review post), character arc, theme, and its mission.

Whew.

But hopefully, with all of this planning, I can finally be done with major revisions – and in a short while, to boot – and I can begin querying this sucker!

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  Hi, I'm Jenn, new grad student and old YA fantasy writer. I've long dreamed of being a novelist, and I bet you have too. I hope you find my blog helpful, inspiring, and maybe just a little bit fun. (But not too much fun. Writing is serious business, you know.)

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• Official Progress

  
  

  4/21 segments

  
  A narrator hijacks a cliche fantasy story, much to the chagrin of its characters.

  Status: Second revision

  
  
  

  1,639/70,000 words

  A young noblewoman with strange powers must choose: her king or her soul.

  Status: First draft

  
  
  

  1,087/70,000 words

  When a girl's heart is stolen, she's plunged into a world of magic and shadows - but can she get her heart back before she loses it completely?

  Status: First draft

  
  
  
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