25 February 2019
In 2018, I was fortunate to work with three novelists who transformed their thrillers through remarkably inspired revisions. As is often the case, I learned more than I contributed while working on these exceptional books. Here, I'll share a few of my takeaways.
When authors finish writing novels, they feel a sense of completion-relief that their once-infinite world has at last been rendered finite. When revising, however, authors face more open-ended arrays of choices. Substantially revising a full-length novel is hard: it's the kind of three-dimensional chess game that would give Garry Kasparov a headache. Fortunately, these three authors shared a few key traits that enabled them to not only face the monster but slay it.
