How to Give Feedback on Fiction: A Guide for Readers

It may also improve your love life. I’m not even joking. Ready?
It may also improve your love life. I’m not even joking. Ready?
I just finished the second full draft of a novel. I’m going to take a couple of weeks of for Christmas, then get started on the third. But the titles “second” and “third” don’t refer to a number of revisions (I have worked through each chapter many, any times). Rather they refer to specific stages in the drafting process. In this article I will describe what I mean by a second and a third draft, and illustrate my personal checklist for revising third drafts. How do you turn a rough draft into a ready draft?