How's the New Year going? I'm posting steps to a good revision process. Here are the first five:
1) Use as many of the five senses as you can in EVERY scene.
2) Don't let your description bring your narrative to a halt.
3) Along the same lines, don't spend too much time describing nonessential
surroundings.
4) Description should add to the story.
5) Don't squander the reader's attention by focusing on an inconsequential action.
When doing the revisions on your book, you may have to go back through a dozen times, or more. It's easier to take one or two things you want to change or add during each time through, rather than going through once, and trying to remember twenty things you may need to address.
