I check off each chapter as I’ve revised. What does that revision look like on the page? We’ll take a look tomorrow.
I manage all of these drafts and revision jobs with both monthly goals and daily to-do lists in my bullet journal. Usually by then, I’ve thought about other things I’d like to change. Then she sends it back and I do another round of revision or two. If she does, I send the document, and she makes notes, usually using the comments feature on Microsoft Word. I’ll email one of the writer pals with whom I swap manuscripts and ask if she has time to read. This third draft -or sometimes fourth – is the first one I send to a writer friend for feedback. I import the document into an app called Notability and use the Apple pencil to mark it up.) (That was my process for BREAKOUT – more recently, I’ve been doing this read-aloud revision on an iPad pro. Then I usually print out the entire book, read it aloud, and mark it up with a colored pen. It becomes my first-pass revision to-do list, and those obvious jobs are the first ones I tackle. I add notes as I write, and by the time I finish the last chapter, that list is pretty long. Add dinner table conversation about prison demographics – Add scenes at beginning so we see Elidee in community before breakout happens My Known-Issues list for BREAKOUT met an untimely end when I spilled guacamole all over it and had to throw it out, but here’s the sort of thing that ends up on such a list. But what happens when I’m writing along and notice an issue or something I want to go back and fix? I keep a big piece of paper next to my laptop with the words “Known Issues” at the top, and I add things to it every day. I’m a relative fast first-drafter, so when I’m working on the first draft of a book, I tend to write from start to finish without going back to revise. I have a bit of an obsession with charts and checklists, so no book I write gets done without them, and BREAKOUT is no exception. Why a 23-day series? Because this book was inspired by the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility prison break that led to a 23-day manhunt in June of 2015. It’s about a small-town prison break and manhunt that change the way three kids see their neighbors and the place they call home.
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Countdown to Breakout is a 23-day blog series about the three-year writing process for BREAKOUT, which earned starred reviews from both School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.
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