The 90-Day Rewrite
By Alan Watt
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The greatest challenge in rewriting your book is making a thousand small changes while staying true to your narrative voice. In this practical day-by-day guide to revising your manuscript, you will:
- End procrastination by breaking your work into manageable tasks
- Learn the technical skills necessary to bring your prose to life
- Discover how to write compelling dialogue
- Solve narrative problems of structure, point of view and pacing
- Learn how to sell and market your book once it is completed
"With its superb organization, excellent examples and fresh approach, this book is unlike any other how-to for writers. Watt's practical program, broken down by weeks and containing useful information and inspiring techniques, succeeds because, quite simply, it teaches you exactly how not to fail."
Leslie Schwartz (author of Angel's Crest)
"The 90-Day Rewrite gave me all the tools I needed to refine my first draft. The techniques stay with you as a writer and give you the confidence to finish your work and prepare it for publication."
- Jennifer Scott (author of Lessons From Madame Chic: Twenty Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris, Simon and Schuster)
"Al teaches you to live in your scenes and set aside the hypercritical surveillance that can plague the rewrite process."
- Frank B. Wilderson III (author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid, winner of the 2008 American Book Award, and the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship)
Alan Watt
Alan Watt is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. His bestselling novel Diamond Dogs (Little, Brown), won numerous awards including France’s 2004 Prix Printemps (best foreign novel). He recently adapted the book for French film company, Quad, and it is soon to be a feature film. His book, The 90-Day Novel, is one of the top-selling books on writing
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