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  title info:
    title: Refuse to be done
    sub title: how to write and rewrite a novel in three drafts
  name:
    name part: Bell, Matt
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 155 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. From lauded writer and teacher Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done is encouraging and intensely practical, focusing always on specific rewriting tasks, techniques and activities for every stage of the process. You won't find bromides here about the "the writing Muse." Instead, Bell breaks down the writing process in three sections. In the first, Bell shares a bounty of tactics, all meant to push the writer through the initial conception and get words on the page. The second focuses on reworking the narrative through outlining, modeling and rewriting. The third and final section offers a layered approach to polishing through a checklist of operations, breaking the daunting project of final revisions into many small, achievable tasks. Whether you are a first-time novelist or a veteran writer, you will find an abundance of strategies here to help motivate you and shake up your revision process, allowing you to approach your work, day after day and month after month, with fresh eyes and sharp new tools.
  table of contents: Introduction: the three drafts -- First draft: forward progress, generative revision -- Second draft: rewrite, don't revise -- Third draft: refuse to be done -- Conclusion.
  note: Matt Bell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-155).
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: Technique
  classification: PN3365 .B46 2022
  classification: 808.3
  identifier: 9781641293419
  identifier: 1641293411
  identifier: 9781641293426
  identifier: 2021046774
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211006
    record change date: 20230130212432.5
    record identifier: in00004643015