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Followup on Critique with Care

It's not cool to ask an author if their characters are bobbleheads.

Yay!

I've experimented with adding some bonus material to my latest release, Sympathy. I'm really happy with the way it came out.

Checklist

As I was wallowing in my nebulous cloud of "what should I do next?" I realized that a checklist or a procedure for launching a new book would be a really great idea.

What sorts of things might a writer create checklists for to steamline some of the decision-making. How about editing?

Sample editing checklist

1. run spell check

2. run grammar check

2a. Do a chapter by chapter summary

3. read through for exposition

4. read through for voice

5. give it to a critique partner

6. start a new story immediately so you don’t waste time worrying about your critique partner’s reply

Listener Question

Jarod asks if it would be plagiarism to borrow a plot device from a scene in a book that moved him. Thanks for the question, Jarod!

Your Assignment

Think of three tasks you can streamline by writing procedures