It’s unpopular, but essential if you’re aiming to craft your best work.

Picture this: one year from now, you’re holding your book in your hands. You see the gorgeous cover art, feel the slight resistance when you open the cover for the first time, run your hands over the soft, smooth paper, flip the pages and smell that delicious new book smell.

Does that sound amazing? Holding your book in your hands just one year from now?

Being done soon is so tempting. But just being done soon won’t lead to a book you’re proud of, a book you love, a book that accomplishes everything you know it can be.

Does it sound amazing to imagine holding your book in your hands six months from now . . . and still not feel creatively fulfilled?

To flip the pages and know that there’s more you could still fix?

To skim the lines and cringe just a little?

To picture the glorious story vivid in your imagination and wonder what your readers will miss because you couldn’t quite capture it on the page?

No, that doesn’t sound delightful? I didn’t think so.

The book world is filled with services promising to help you finish your book fast. If your dream is to hold your book in your hands this year, there are tons of people out there who can help you make that happen.

But after years of helping writers who seek to craft their very best books, the ones they’re truly proud of, I’ve found that speed is not what you need to get there.

In this episode, I’ll show you:

• What the true work of revising a novel really is,
• Why trying to speed through it will actually hold you back,
• And what to do instead—so that when you finish, the book you share with the world is one you’re immeasurably proud of.

It’s not the popular path. But it’s the only path I know to craft the books you’re truly capable of writing.

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Edit your novel with me: alicesudlow.com/contact
• See if I’m the right editor for your book: alicesudlow.com/waitlist

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