Sometimes I think that novel writing is 95 percent patience.
Don't believe me? Ed Champion points us to an illuminating interview with novelist Jenny Davidson, exploring the dirty, dirty job of revising a novel. If you are evading any of these steps, then you need to take a good, hard look at your manuscript:
"I draft the whole thing (we’re talking about novels here) from start to finish, writing in longhand in little notebooks. Then I type up the draft, including a first edit. Then I edit the hard copy, type in revisions, repeat ad nauseam. This latest novel probably underwent at least 10 revision cycles, each one of which potentially involved two or three or four close copy-edits. At some point (usually more than once), I read the whole thing out loud to myself"
What would happen if thousands of bloggers blogged about the same thing for one day? These people hope they can save the world.
How many clicks until readers stop clicking? Will Sullivan is analyzing newspaper web design, unpacking some simple design tips that could really change the quality of your personal site. Read it and weep:
"I just don’t buy that people are going to work that hard to find your content. I subscribe to Tim Harrower’s old school design belief that anything deeper than 3 clicks and you’ve lost most people (I’d wager my paycheck that by forcing them to click a fourth time you’ve lost 70 percent of the audience. And I’d bet two paychecks that you’ll lose 97 percent for those on slow dsl or dial-up)."
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