The third (and final part) of this in-depth look at how to revise your novel, helps you analyze your characters, setting, plot and pace of your story.

We study plot and structure, pace and tension, character and dialogue, but how often do we think about how the reader is going to react to our story?

Revising your story can turn a literary lump of coal into a diamond. Janice Hardy shares three tips to help you make your novel shine.

Just as we as writers can’t address the possible weaknesses in our stories until we understand exactly what they are, readers can’t fully engage with those stories without a clear, concrete, granular sense of detail.
Yet one of the observations I most frequently make with authors’ manuscripts in my editing work is that key elements may lack impact because they feel vague or generalized.

Barbara Linn Probst shows how editing your work for theme can strengthen your book. In summary, "Search and Destroy" can be swapped for "Search and Employ."