{"product_id":"the-revision-manual","title":"The Revision Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003eA complete draft arrives with every kind of problem at once, and a writer who takes them in the order they appear ends up polishing sentences in chapters that will be cut. The Revision Manual puts the work in order. You read the whole draft before touching any part of it, decide what the book is about, and then revise in passes from the largest problems to the smallest: structure first, then scene and character, then line and copy, then outside readers and the decision to finish. Each pass has its own worksheets, a troubleshooting page for the problems editors meet again and again at that layer, and a clear point where it ends, so you can stop after any pass and find your place again from the sheets you already filled in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix case studies follow real writers through revision decisions: Octavia E. Butler's years of rejection before \u003cem\u003eKindred\u003c\/em\u003e, Toni Morrison's years as an editor at Random House, the ending Dickens rewrote for \u003cem\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e, N. K. Jemisin's second person in \u003cem\u003eThe Fifth Season\u003c\/em\u003e, Ocean Vuong's line-level choices, and the novel James Baldwin's publisher told him to burn. Use it once a draft is complete, ending included, and again for every book after it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saint Violet Creative","offers":[{"title":"Instant Download","offer_id":67973302714586,"sku":"SV-RM-INST","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/6230\/7290\/files\/the-revision-manual-01.png?v=1793675629","url":"https:\/\/www.saintvioletcreative.com\/products\/the-revision-manual","provider":"Saint Violet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}