{"id":23250,"date":"2020-08-20T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=23250"},"modified":"2023-09-05T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T00:38:00","slug":"revise-for-your-readers-experience-by-beth-barany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/20\/revise-for-your-readers-experience-by-beth-barany\/","title":{"rendered":"Revise for Your Reader&#8217;s Experience by Beth Barany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span draggable=\"false\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WFZ_Revise-for-Your-Readers-Experience-by-Beth-Barany_2020_08-20.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23251 size-full\" title=\"Revise for Your Reader's Experience by Beth Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WFZ_Revise-for-Your-Readers-Experience-by-Beth-Barany_2020_08-20.png\" alt=\"Revise for Your Reader's Experience by Beth Barany\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WFZ_Revise-for-Your-Readers-Experience-by-Beth-Barany_2020_08-20.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WFZ_Revise-for-Your-Readers-Experience-by-Beth-Barany_2020_08-20-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>This post is about principles on how to revise for your reader&#8217;s experience.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">I\u2019m staring at my WIP\u2014work in progress. It\u2019s final edits time. Fish or cut bait. It&#8217;s time to make all those decisions I\u2019ve been putting off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>How do I do that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">What\u2019s important?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How do I know if my story is any good?<\/p>\n<p>I need criteria. I need to get really clear about what my end goal is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Again, how do I do that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span draggable=\"false\">How do you do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want to make the editing process conscious, so it\u2019s not a big black hole of terror.<\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">Over the years I\u2019ve developed some principles that guide me through the confusing and overwhelming editing and revising process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to share some key principles with you in the hopes you\u2019ll take them and make them your own. And also because sharing them with you helps me see what I\u2019m doing so that I may better wield these tools.<\/p>\n<p>The main question I start with:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What experience do I want my readers to have while they read the book and by the time they get to the end?<\/p>\n<p>In other words, what am I driving toward?<\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">The answers depend upon the kind of story I\u2019m creating, the genre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I speak of a genre I\u2019m talking about reader expectations.<\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">What are my readers expecting based on the genre I say the book is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">Get clear on this. Then you can meet and exceed expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span draggable=\"false\"><em>Resource:<\/em> Shawn Coyne&#8217;s Story Grid (<a title=\"Story Grid by Shawn Coyne (book)\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/OgUZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"StoryGrid.com\" href=\"https:\/\/storygrid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">site<\/a><\/span><span draggable=\"false\">) covers this. Specifically here:\u00a0<a title=\"Genres have Conventions and Obligatory Scenes By Shawn Coyne\" href=\"https:\/\/storygrid.com\/genres-have-conventions-and-obligatory-scenes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/storygrid.com\/genres-have-conventions-and-obligatory-scenes\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">Another way to characterize the expectations and get to the core of art and story is to focus on sensory details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">Readers read to feel, to go\u00a0there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We writers transport our readers evoking through words sensory details:<br \/>\n<span draggable=\"false\">pictures, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings\u2014physical and emotional.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">What is the flavor, smell, feeling, soundscape, or taste you associate with each beat, each scene, each chapter, each act, and the book as a whole?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">You don\u2019t need to pick from all the senses. Just focus on a primary, and possibly, secondary sense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For example, I\u2019m writing a science fiction mystery with strong romantic elements. I knew I was creating this kind of book (and series, as I\u2019ve written 4 books) from the start, but I needed to decided what proportions of each and what the reader expectations were for each.<\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">During my first editing pass, I realized that I was creating a police procedural, with a science fiction backdrop where I could question society, all mixed with a secondary romance plot that impacted the resolution of the mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">The feeling I am exploring is grief: a bittersweet flavor, and the physical sensation of free falling yet at the same time being able to act upon the environment &#8212; a dichotomy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The soundscape is a fast-paced jazz with cross-rhythms that sometimes work together, sometimes against each other, a four-three cross-rhythm like in lots of West African music.<\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">Bright primary colors that sparkle and shimmery, reflecting the rainbow at unexpected moments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Textured and patterned fabric, like a pebbled velour or a woven reed mat or a Scottish tartan plaid of worsted wool.<\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">The meal is an array of tasty appetizers that you nibble at a late night Parisian caf\u00e9 with your friends while you sip exotic martinis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span draggable=\"false\">I visit these sensory details as I revise and connect different ones to every beat, every scene, every chapter, every act, and for the story as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your guiding star? What are the sensory details that characterize the kind of story you\u2019re working on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comment below to let me know your thoughts on this topic. I\u2019d love to hear.<\/p>\n<p>(Posted updated: Sept, 5, 2023)<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<h2>ABOUT BETH BARANY<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Beth-Barany-image_2020_06-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23155\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Beth-Barany-image_2020_06-22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Beth-Barany-image_2020_06-22.png 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Beth-Barany-image_2020_06-22-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>An award-winning novelist, Beth Barany writes science fiction and fantasy for young adults and adults. Her first novel Henrietta The Dragon Slayer won Grand Prize in a California Indie Author contest.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Oakland, California, with her husband, Ezra Barany, also a novelist, Beth has lived abroad three times \u2014 Quebec and twice in Paris, France \u2014 and speaks fluent French.<\/p>\n<p>Known for creating rich world, tough and kick-ass heroines, and refreshing romances, Beth creates cinematic stories to empower readers to be the heroes of their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>When she\u2019s not penning rip roaring reads, Beth runs an\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/school.bethbarany.com\/p\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online school for fiction writers<\/a><\/strong>, speaks at conferences and international cultural centers, most recently in Saudi Arabia, and enjoys her many dragon figurines sprinkled throughout her house.<\/p>\n<p>For freebies, excerpts, and more about her books, go to Beth\u2019s site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>author.bethbarany.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is about principles on how to revise for your reader&#8217;s experience. 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