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Revising Fiction provides 185 practical suggestions on how to improve your story or novel. Inside its pages, you'll discover The four stages of writing "Before" and "after" drafts from the fiction of Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and many others Specific examples and suggestions for every aspect of writing The technical questions every writer should ask when he or she revises A comprehensive checklist of problem—and how to work on them A complete short story that demonstrates over thirty key revision techniques available to any writer

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