Here’s a good post on cutting a novel down so you can speed the novel up.
I like this tip in particular:
- It can be okay to tell. Both editors I’ve worked with have told me, in essence, “Sometimes I wish ‘show, don’t tell,’ had never been invented.” Writers who have already learned to do a good job of showing can save words by occasionally telling. Choose judiciously. Sometimes, Ariel didn’t need to have her skin go clammy and the nape of her neck prickle — she could just be scared.
The tips are given by Joni Sensel who has written The Farwalker’s Quest (published by Bloomsbury–oh man would I love to be published by Bloomsbury). I found her at Darcy Patterson’s Revision Notes, by way of Holly Cupala’s Brimstone Soup.
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