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Your Next Draft

Supporting fiction writers doing the hard work of revising unputdownable novels. The novel editing process is the creative crucible where you discover the story you truly want to tell—and it can present some of the most challenging moments on your writing journey.Developmental editor and book coach Alice Sudlow will be your companion through the mess and magic of revision. You’ll get inspired by interviews with authors, editors, and coaches sharing their revision processes; gain practical tips from

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92:05

How Multiple Layers of Editing Combine to Perfect...

Your Next Draft ·

2025/02/18

The best novels combine rock-solid story structure with scenes that are unputdownable on every page. Here’s how one writer and two editors polished a story at every level. If you want to move your reader in every moment, keep them hooked on every page, you need to refine your scenes until each one is unputdownable. And that refinement? It’s SUCH a joy. It’s my favorite thing to do and it will transform your entire story. But in order to make every scene matter, you first need to make sure you...

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32:34

What Is a Manuscript Evaluation? (And Do You Need One?)

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2025/02/04

It’s the most common developmental editing service you’ll see. Know what to look for and when (or if) you need one. If you google “developmental editor” and start looking through editors’ websites, you’ll see a common service appear again and again: A manuscript evaluation. (Or assessment, or diagnostic, or critique. A rose by any other name, etc.) Typically, in a manuscript evaluation, an editor will offer to read your manuscript and tell you what’s working and what to focus on next to make ...

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98:37

Scene Workshop: Hook Your Readers in Chapter One with...

Your Next Draft ·

2025/01/21

You get one shot to grab their attention. Don’t waste it with characters staring off into space.You've put all this work into uncovering your character's internal arc. You know them SO WELL.When you step into a scene, you're giving your absolute all to uncovering the deep meaning and purpose behind it, the profound arc of character transformation that's happening in even the smallest moments.Yet in doing all that . . . you've lost the plot. You've crafted complex inner worlds for your charact...

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25:51

The Unskippable Process to Create Unputdownable Books

Your Next Draft ·

2025/01/07

It’s unpopular, but essential if you’re aiming to craft your best work.Picture this: one year from now, you’re holding your book in your hands. You see the gorgeous cover art, feel the slight resistance when you open the cover for the first time, run your hands over the soft, smooth paper, flip the pages and smell that delicious new book smell.Does that sound amazing? Holding your book in your hands just one year from now?Being done soon is so tempting. But just being done soon won’t lead to ...

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19:15

How to Edit Your Novel When Disaster Strikes

Your Next Draft ·

2024/08/27

Your book is important. But sometimes, worthy interruptions will delay it for a while.For the last few months, this podcast feed has been quiet. It went dark with no notice in mid-June.I didn’t mean to disappear on you. In fact, I didn’t plan to pause the podcast at all.But a family emergency struck, and all my best-laid plans for summer 2024 changed in a matter of hours.This summer, I learned what it takes to edit when your world is in crisis.Happily, for me and my family, the crisis is over...

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30:24

How Taylor Jenkins Reid Crafts an Exceptional Opening...

Your Next Draft ·

2024/06/18

Your reader experiences your story one scene at a time. Make every scene un-put-down-able.Great stories are made of great scenes.Sure, your novel has a clever plot with twists and turns from the first page to the last. But the way your readers will experience that plot is . . .. . . one scene at a time.Which means if you want your readers to fall in love with your novel, you need to captivate them with scenes they can’t put down.How do you do it?I’ll show you in this episode. I’m analyzing a ...

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16:34

2 “Showing” and "Telling" Ways to Convey Time Passing...

Your Next Draft ·

2024/06/04

Show and tell your readers why time matters to your characters.Time matters.When you look up and it’s dark outside, time matters to you.When your characters look around and summer is turning into fall, time matters to them.When your readers are reading a novel and they can’t figure out how time is passing? Well, time matters to them, too—mostly because they’re confused.In this episode, I’m sharing two ways to make time matter to your readers the way it matters to your characters.That is, how ...

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3 “Telling” Ways to Convey Time Passing in Your Novel

Your Next Draft ·

2024/05/21

Don’t lose your readers. Just tell them what time it is.The passage of time seems intuitive. It just happens, right? (Like, whether you want it to or not. Time and tide wait for no man, etc.)Here’s the thing, though. If you don’t tell your readers that time is passing in your novel . . .. . . they won’t know.It seems wild, I know. It feels like time passing should be obvious. But I promise you, it’s not.Luckily, conveying the passage of time to your readers is simple (and it doesn’t take a lo...

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16:04

Why You Must Show Time Passing in Your Novel

Your Next Draft ·

2024/05/07

This is often overlooked, but it’s essential for great stories.How do you make time pass?Well, when you’re living your regular life in the real world, you don’t have to do anything.Time is constantly passing, no matter what you do. And when a timer goes off, or you look outside and see the sun’s gone down, or you feel your stomach growl with hunger, you notice time has passed.You hardly have to think about it. It’s just happening, all around you, all the time.In your novel, though—well, there...

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18:28

When Should You Practice, and When Should You Publish?

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2024/04/23

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20:51

You Can't Skip Learning How to Write a Novel. Here's Why

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2024/04/09

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20:06

4 Tips for Your First Time Working With an Editor

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2024/03/26

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12:34

4 Tips to Find the Right Editor for Your Novel

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2024/03/12

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23:57

Why Writers Resist Measuring Their Craft (And Why You...

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2024/02/27

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21:26

The Pros and Cons of Group Coaching for Writers

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2024/02/13

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20:15

5 Steps to Edit the Second Draft of a Novel

Your Next Draft ·

2024/01/30

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17:07

Why a Page One Rewrite Is Actually Worth Celebrating

Your Next Draft ·

2024/01/16

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18:21

What It REALLY Means to Make Progress Editing Your Novel

Your Next Draft ·

2024/01/02

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10:43

The Most Joyful Editing Feedback I Ever Give

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2023/12/26

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22:04

The Top 5 Lessons From Year 1 of Building My Editing...

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2023/12/19

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