Novel Revision Checklist: 50 Steps for a Stronger Draft
- Story structure: opening tension, protagonist goals, turning points, escalation, climax, and resolution
- Scenes and pacing: scene purpose, opposition, exposition, chapter endings, and repeated material
- Character and dialogue: motivation, agency, relationships, distinct voices, subtext, and attribution
- Prose and continuity: point of view, tense, narrative distance, sentence rhythm, timeline, and factual consistency
- Copy editing and final proof: dialogue punctuation, spelling style, formatting, read-aloud review, and final checks
- Downloadable five-pass checklist designed for fiction writers revising a complete first draft
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