Maureen Bush » manuscript http://maureenbush.com/wp Writes for Kids Sat, 19 May 2012 21:31:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reading Backwards http://maureenbush.com/wp/2012/03/26/reading-backwards/ http://maureenbush.com/wp/2012/03/26/reading-backwards/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:05:47 +0000 Maureen Bush http://maureenbush.com/wp/?p=1586 Once again, I’m reading a manuscript backwards. Well, to be precise, I’m reading the chapters in reverse order. It’s a technique recommended by Art Slade, and it’s truly vile. Strange. Awkward. Weird. But it’s enormously helpful, too.

I’ll be grumbling for days as I work my way back through my manuscript, but when I’m done, I know it will be better. And that’s always the point.

Maureen

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Maureen

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