my FIRST TIME revising a novel 🧠📖 a chaotic writing vlog in revision hell
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you've got this! and you're so right, revision is the biggest emotional roller coaster, I will literally go from "I should quit and never look at a word again" to "where is my pullitzer?" within literal seconds
never look at a word again hahaha. yes that is exactly the vibes, you get it
ahhh i'm so excited to watch!! gonna have to take some notes now that she's a ✨writer✨
She’s a WRITER!!!!
loved this vlog, especially your point about being a stronger writer with each draft and being more equipped to complete the draft you're on than you were before! one of my favorite parts of this process for me has been seeing my voice as a writer grow, it's cool to hear someone else articulate what I've been feeling!
I love that sm!!! yay for being able to see our progress with each draft 🥹
"little sick me" 😭 so sorry you were sick!! but i feel you with shifting into the revision headspace - and yes, YAY DRAFT TWO so excited for your journey. I unfortunately love revising... idk what's wrong with me lmao but chaos is still the state I feel like i'm in when revising. So happy you're feeling confident about those edits to chapter 2 that you made. 🌺
I hope I end up loving revising! Send some of that energy my way lol!!! And thank you 💖💖
oh my gosh!! you're doing awesome brielle! I've never revised a novel before (still on my draft one) but I can imagine it's extremely chaotic and stressful and ur so cool to be able to document all this!! good luck on ur journey and everything!!💘
Thank you so much!! 🥹❤️
im decaying of illness and this inspired me to write cos we r both deceased tgt 😍 ive just found ur channel and I’m now binge watching all ur videos!!
I love your attitude and energy around growing in your writing craft. As long as we put in the work we will continue to grow as writers and we've just got to trust the process--trust ourselves!! I forget this sometimes and stress myself out for nothinggg so this was such a refreshing reminder. Love your vids! 💙
inkarnate is my bff when it comes to figuring out the geography + distances !! i appreciate these videos so much because i will take any and all advice i can get for the day that i finally finish my draft and have to revise lol. hope you feel better and rest up!
Thank you sm! Glad to hear you enjoy the videos :’)
I’m also revising at the moment! And I made notes on my last draft, too, lol. I organized those notes based on the ‘level down’ revision method by Blake Snyder. My notes were mainly about line edits like you’re, but there were also a bunch of scenes I ended up noting that I have to move entirely because they just plain don’t make sense in the spot they are timeline wise.
I just couldn’t figure out how to move said scenes digitally in the easiest way, so I resorted to the physical world. I wrote down a description of every scene in like five words or less, then color coded based on what act they fall in. The ones that needed to be moved went on their own color. I used most of today to put them on a trifold poster board and physically moved them around. I’m still tinkering, but I wrote down the first re-ordered version and I’m gonna go at it fresh tomorrow. Hopefully that will bring some clarity, lol. But because I did that, I’m actually excited for revising, which has literally never happened before.
To get into the right headspace of editing, I pretty much ban myself from editing the document directly, and just use notes on the side. If I find myself breaking that rule a lot, I’ll get a proof copy, which is a bound copy of your manuscript. That way, I physically can’t edit, I just have to rely on notes in the margins and my trusty notebook. It’s hard, but doing that gets me out of ‘drafting’ mode and into ‘editing’ mode.
Thanks for the video!
I love physical methods too! They’re great for clarity and getting you to look at things different- that’s why I printed my first draft to take notes on :)
Omg the closet scene😫😫😫we do love some good force proximity and tension building,🤣 if I'm not mistaken u talked abt how they used to communicate via phone and u changed those scenes to make them meet in person, with this little context i can tell how refined this draft is in comparison
Girl you're doing great!
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Thank you!! Forced proximity is my favvv!
Good luck with revisions!! I’m legit a few months behind you I just finished my draft a week ago I’m letting it sit for a month and having my husband look it over before I read it over on my own ☺️
I think what helps me is to divide the development review into several reviews? Like the snowflake method, first I focus on everything related to relationships between the characters, then on the development of the world, finally more concrete details such as religion culture etc... so that I first attack the large elements that serve as the basis for the rest
Interesting!! I’ll have to think about that, thanks for the tip!
Inkarnate is honestly so fun hehe I used it for two of my big continent maps in my DnD campaign and it was so fun to watch people react to them LOL
Good luck with your revisions! I hope they make you even more excited for your book than before hehe
Thank you!! I love that lol
YAYYY for finding the flow again !!!! 🌸✨
we love a flow state!!
You are absolutely right there are times that that desire to rewrite everything comes from perfectionism and the insecurity of not believing I can fix it, I haven't seen it like that
I just started an eighth rewrite of my high fantasy novel, and hearing you talk about rewriting as an act of self-sabotage was definitely an eye-opener. Not because this is happening right now (had to do some serious reflection to be sure), but because I sometimes do self-sabotage.
How do I know I’m not self-sabotaging right now? Because the changes I have done are so massive. The first version had a war going on, one version was about the beginning stages of the war, and right now I’ve decided to approach the story from a point of view I seldom see in fantasy: post-war peace-building efforts as well as coping with the ecological, economical, psychological and physical effects of war. Also, I genuinely feel I’m developing as a writer (which is to be expected if one writes eight versions of the same book), and I actually feel this version has the uniqueness that I feel will make it worth editing further.
Anyway-thank you for verbalizing the self-sabotage aspect. It’s an important thing to discuss. 🌺
Ending up out of practice is a bigger occupational hazard than some writers may believe. So good on you for the self-awareness.
The revision process for me (regarding the "flow state" you're referring to) is a pursuit of what instinctually works about the structure of events, the characters, the jokes, the interplay of dialogue and visuals. Every play I write could be written a million ways; it's a multiverse. So I keep myself grounded by deciding what I *won't* do. The parameters create a knowable space in which I tinker, draft upon draft, with the play's mechanics ... until it reaches the standard I set for myself and runs from beginning to end in a beautiful way.
Love this!
LMAO ... can't believe this didn't click in my mind sooner, but your answer to the geography thing is reminiscent of George R.R. Martin. When he wrote Song of Ice & Fire (the basis for Game of Thrones), he based The Wall on a winter he experienced in Chicago where snowbanks reached the height of whole apartment buildings. How much of this is hyperbole, your guess is as good as mine ... Wikipedia's sources only list that blizzard at 23 inches ... but either way it's a testament to Martin anchoring his imagination in a distinctly American viewpoint.
omg same, I need at least 7-8 hours of decent deep sleep to be able to function properly. My body is sensitive that I get sick so easily if I don't 😌
LOVE this video! When I started this redraft I had the exact same internal battle. I am writing a lot of new words in this draft and reminding myself that it doesn't need to be perfect right now has been vital to my continued progress! I am so glad that I am not the only one that felt this way when starting this redrafting process.... cuz it is ROUGH lol. Also, I LOVE the bulbasaur flowerpot and I need one ASAP!
Lol love that we can bond over that struggle :’) and also happy to hear I’m not alone!!! We got this 🕺🏼
I'm supposed to be working on my stats work rn buuuut i had to watch this first ❤❤
I’m honored 🕺🏼🕺🏼
loved this vlog! i'm revising my first novel as well and it's so interesting to see other people's methods as I figure out my own :) definitely a chaotic learning process but so rewarding!!
Absolutely! Good luck with revisions!
Hopping you feel better 🌺
thank you!
Have a great day !
I've never revised a book before. So, I'm definitely interested in seeing how you go about it.
revising is so hard and scary, I can totally relate 😭but I LOVED watching this video and seeing how you worked through that perfectionism. and lmao writing is SUCH an emotional rollercoaster!!! i have whiplash from my own WIP😂but I love seeing you work through your process!
Seriously such whiplash hahaha but at least it’s a fun roller coaster 🤷🏻♀️ glad you enjoyed the vlog 💖💖
I have a love-hate relationship with the revision process. I’m looking forward to seeing how you get on with Unraveling!
Me too!!
ahhhh im so excited!! ❤️❤️
yay hope you enjoyed :)
Revising sounds so tricky! Maybe it’s something that’s different for everybody, but I’m sure you’ll get through it. You’ve made it so far already!
What are the programs you used to make the map and moodboard?
the map was inkarnate (linked in description), moodboards I did on canva with images from Pinterest :)
My best editing/revising advice? Start writing the sequel. LOL
LOL that is tempting
@@briellewrites it's why I have four V1 or V1.5 and 138K words on novel 5 😬
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I don't exactly rewrite the novel I am working on, it's more like I type it up in another document and make changes, add, or delete, whatever I read is necessary. It helps caul the need to rewrite it completely by just retyping it somewhere else. I don't know if that made any sense.
interesting! love that method
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Perfect is the enemy of good! at least that's how my brain remembers that saying.
Also, re: writing every day I think you should do it!! It doesnt have to be a *lot* every day, like you can just set a goal for 100 or 200 words each day. I find that once I sit down and start, it's a lot easier for me to keep going and get more words in than I would with a Set Schedule, if that makes sense!
Good point! And yes my brain was combining “perfect is the enemy of good” and “better done that perfect”
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