Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel

Jeanne Lyet Gassman — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:22:12 GMT

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In this webinar, award-winning author and editor Jeanne Lyet Gassman discusses some of the tricks of the revision process, including creating an editing map, breaking down chapters and scenes, and analyzing character arcs. She also looks at the difference between global issues and local issues, and how to avoid the trap of tunnel revision.

Note: This session includes tips for both fiction authors and memoir authors.

Here are the handouts referenced in the session:
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../Revisions_5F00_Expert-Tips-ALC-Handout.pdf
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../1212.Revisions_5F00_Plot-and-Structural-ALC-Handout.pdf
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../0285.Revisions_5F00_Characters-ALC-Handout.pdf
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../2475.Revisions_5F00_Editing-Map-Harry-Potter-ALC-Handout.pdf
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../3465.Revisions_5F00_Weasel-Words-ALC-Handout.pdf
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../ExpertTipsforRevisingYourNovel25.mp4

About the Presenter:
Jeanne Lyet Gassman lives in the mountains of New Mexico where she writes & teaches. Her debut novel, "Blood of a Stone" (Tuscany Press), received a Bronze 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award. Her short work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize. Other awards include fellowships from Ragdale and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, & poetry have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including "45 Poems of Protest: The Pandemic", "Bosque7", "Dear America: Reflections on Race", "Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok", "The Manifest-Station", "Queen Mob's Tea House", & "Hippocampus Magazine", among many others. Jeanne recently received a New Mexico Writers Grant for her novel-in-progress, a story about a family of downwinders who were affected by the radioactive fallout from the atomic bomb tests in Nevada. You can learn more about Jeanne at her website: http://jeannelyetgassman.com/ or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeanneLyetGassman.

Tags: fiction, Nonfiction, Subscriber, Recorded Webinar, Biographies and Memoirs

Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel

Jeanne Lyet Gassman — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:19:18 GMT

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Note: This session includes tips for both fiction authors and memoir authors.

Tags: fiction, Nonfiction, Subscriber, Recorded Webinar, Biographies and Memoirs

Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel

Author Learning Center — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:16:08 GMT

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Note: This session includes tips for both fiction authors and memoir authors.

About the Presenter:

Jeanne Lyet Gassman lives in the mountains of New Mexico where she writes & teaches. Her debut novel, "Blood of a Stone" (Tuscany Press), received a Bronze 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award. Her short work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize. Other awards include fellowships from Ragdale and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, & poetry have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including "45 Poems of Protest: The Pandemic", "Bosque7", "Dear America: Reflections on Race", "Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok", "The Manifest-Station", "Queen Mob's Tea House", & "Hippocampus Magazine", among many others. Jeanne recently received a New Mexico Writers Grant for her novel-in-progress, a story about a family of downwinders who were affected by the radioactive fallout from the atomic bomb tests in Nevada. You can learn more about Jeanne at her website: http://jeannelyetgassman.com/ or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeanneLyetGassman.

Tags: fiction, Subscriber, Recorded Webinar

Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel

Jeanne Lyet Gassman — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:23:46 GMT

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The flush of inspiration can carry you through the first draft of a novel or story, but what do you do once that draft is complete? How do you revise your novel or story and bring it to a polished final draft? In this webinar, author and editor Jeanne Lyet Gassman will discuss some of the tricks of the revision process, including creating an editing map, breaking down chapters and scenes, and analyzing character arcs. She will also look at the difference between global issues and local issues, and how to avoid the trap of tunnel revision.

Here are the handouts referenced in the session:

www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../Revisions_5F00_Characters-ALC-Handout.pdf
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../Revisions_5F00_Plot-and-Structural-ALC-Handout.pdf
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../Revisions_5F00_Weasel-Words-ALC-Handout.pdf
www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../Revisions_5F00_Editing-Map-Harry-Potter-ALC-Handout.pdf

www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../ExpertTipsforRevisingYourNovel22.mp4

About the Presenter:

Jeanne Lyet Gassman lives in the mountains of New Mexico where she writes and teaches. Her debut novel, 'Blood of a Stone' (Tuscany Press), received a Bronze 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award. Her short work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize. Other awards include fellowships from Ragdale and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Clerestory, 45 Poems of Protest: The Pandemic, Bosque7, Dear America: Reflections on Race, Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok, The Manifest-Station, and Hippocampus Magazine, among many others. Jeanne recently received a New Mexico Writers Grant for her novel-in-progress, a story about a family of downwinders who were affected by the radioactive fallout from the atomic bomb tests in Nevada. You can learn more about Jeanne at her website: http://jeannelyetgassman.com/ or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeanneLyetGassman.

Tags: fiction, Subscriber, Recorded Webinar

Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel

Jeanne Lyet Gassman — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:22:30 GMT

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Here are the handouts referenced in the session:

www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../ExpertTipsforRevisingYourNovel22.mp4

About the Presenter:

Tags: fiction, Subscriber, Recorded Webinar

Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel

Jeanne Lyet Gassman — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:21:07 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Proofreading by Jeanne Lyet Gassman on 6/2/2022 8:21:07 PM

Here are the handouts referenced in the session:

www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../ExpertTipsforRevisingYourNovel22.mp4

About the Presenter:
Jeanne Lyet Gassman lives in the mountains of New Mexico where she writes and teaches. Her debut novel, 'Blood of a Stone' (Tuscany Press), received a Bronze 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award. Her short work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize. Other awards include fellowships from Ragdale and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Clerestory, 45 Poems of Protest: The Pandemic, Bosque7, Dear America: Reflections on Race, Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok, The Manifest-Station, and Hippocampus Magazine, among many others. Jeanne recently received a New Mexico Writers Grant for her novel-in-progress, a story about a family of downwinders who were affected by the radioactive fallout from the atomic bomb tests in Nevada. You can learn more about Jeanne at her website: http://jeannelyetgassman.com/ or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeanneLyetGassman.

Tags: fiction, Subscriber, Recorded Webinar

Expert Tips for Revising Your Novel

Jeanne Lyet Gassman — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:07:07 GMT

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Download the handouts and watch the recording below:

www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../Character-Edits.pdf

www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../J.K.-Rowling_2700_s-Editing-Map-for-Harry-Potter.pdf

www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../Plot-and-Structural-Edits.pdf

www.authorlearningcenter.com/.../Expert-Tips-for-Revising-Your-Novel.mp4

Jeanne Lyet Gassman's debut novel, Blood of a Stone (Tuscany Press), received a Bronze 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award in the national category of religious fiction. Her short work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize. Additional awards include fellowships from Ragdale and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Jeanne's writing has appeared in The Manifest Station, Queen Mob's Tea House, Hippocampus Magazine, Literary Mama, Barrelhouse, and Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, among many others. Her short story, "Sweet Dirty Love," was recently published in the anthology, Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok. Visit Jeanne at her website: www.jeannelyetgassman.com

Tags: fiction, Subscriber, Recorded Webinar