To revise and rewrite your first draft effectively, you need to:
- Take a break from your novel and gain some distance and perspective
- Read your novel as a reader and identify its strengths and weaknesses
- Use feedback from beta readers, critique partners, or editors to guide your revisions
- Work on one aspect of your novel at a time, such as plot, characters, setting, point of view, or dialogue
- Use tools such as grammar checkers, spell checkers, or readability checkers to polish your language
bibisco helps you to revise and rewrite your first draft by providing you with a revision management tool. You can use it to create, edit, move, and delete revisions. You can also use it to compare different versions of your novel and see how it has changed over time.
Step 11: Share it with your first readers
Sharing your novel with your first readers is the process of getting feedback from people who read your novel for the first time. They can be friends, family members, fellow writers, beta readers, critique partners, or editors. They can help you to improve your novel by giving you honest opinions, suggestions, and criticisms.
To share your novel with your first readers successfully, you need to:
- Choose readers who are familiar with your genre, target audience, and writing goals
- Choose readers who are supportive, constructive, and respectful
- Choose readers who are willing, available, and reliable
- Give readers clear instructions on what kind of feedback you want and how to give it
- Receive feedback with gratitude, openness, and curiosity
bibisco helps you to share your novel with your first readers by providing you with an export tool. You can use it to export your novel in pdf, docx, or epub format. You can also use it to share your novel via email, social media, or online platforms.
Step 12: Publish your novel
Publishing your novel is the process of making your novel available to the public. It involves choosing between traditional publishing or self-publishing, preparing your manuscript for publication, and marketing and promoting your novel.
