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Writing Excuses 10.47: Q&A on Revision

Writing Excuses

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The Fellowship of the Ring

"I look at structure issues, and so I do big structure issues first. And then I guess I count character as part of a structure issue," Tolkien says. "If I change this sentence just a little, it will highlight that a little better." The author is one of those writers who does a lot of revision as he goes in his work.

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