Writing a book without feedback or critiques

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Writing a book? You might think the next step after the first draft is to pay for editorial feedback or a developmental edit on the manuscript. But for memoir, particularly, it's more important that you learn how to structurally revise and develop the narrative so you can become a better writer. Most published authors I know (including myself) learnt techniques to objectively assess their own work so they didn't waste precious time, money and energy on paid critiques that wildly vary in understanding of the genre and don't actually deepen your understanding of how to develop the narrative yourself.
So today, I'm sharing the 6 stage process for revision that I teach inside Manuscript Finishing School, and why your synopsis and chapter outlines can prove pivotal in clarifying where you need to edit your draft.
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Hi, I'm Louisa, I'm a twice-published memoir author, an experienced editor, copywriter, media and marketing coach and I teach memoir writing and nonfiction publishing in the traditional publishing industry.

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@LouisaDeaseytv 5 месяцев назад

🔗 MANUSCRIPT FINISHING SCHOOL COURSE louisadeasey.com/manuscript-finishing-school-full

@EveningTV 4 месяца назад

What if you are not writing your memoir in a chronological sustained narrative style, but closer to the story told in essays that are each complete on their own. This is a style in several popular memoirs, and it is a style I've always enjoyed as a reader, however, it does mean that chapter outlines wouldn't really exist. I can outline the 3-4 parts or acts I think to achieve the same net result. Your course sounds great but does sound like a large focus is on chapter outlines, so wondering how it works for a book like mine. .

@LouisaDeaseytv 4 месяца назад

Thanks for your comment! So this course is really only for editing a book-length narrative nonfiction, and it sounds like yours has no narrative through-line, the essays are stand-alone. The copyediting lesson might help you, but the rest will not. The course is for a book-length work of narrative nonfiction.

@EveningTV 4 месяца назад

@@LouisaDeaseytv Are you familiar with You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith or Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas or Nick Flynn's memoirs ? This is the style I'm attempting, so there is definitely a narrative through line but it is not chronological. I'm not describing this very well, but I have been surprised to see this style is so well received. I notice that it is often used when poets attempt prose as Maggie Smith and Nick Flynn are best known as poets. This brings up a good question, however, do you think it would be harder to get a publisher interested in a book like this for a debut author?

@LouisaDeaseytv 4 месяца назад

@@EveningTV hello, so there is a narrative through-line in Maggie Smith's memoir & the editing course is not for chronological only books, the best place to get all these questions answered about chronology of narrative for memoir is in my free class on The Art of Memoir - louisadeasey.com/art/ & re: book deals - Fast-Track Your Nonfiction book deal (paid class which shows you what you need to show a publisher or agent) louisadeasey.com/book-deal-publishing-class/