Writing Tips: Lessons Learned From Rewriting My First Novel Over A Decade Later
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In January 2022, I re-edited my first novel, Stone of Fire, which I started during NaNoWriMo in 2009 and published in April 2011. In this episode, I explain why and how I re-edited the book, as well as some lessons learned from revisiting my writer self of over a decade ago. This episode includes: Why […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's the show. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello creatives. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:33.8 | And this is episode number 606 of the podcast. |
| 0:37.3 | And it is Friday, the 25th of February |
| 0:39.4 | 2022 as I record this. This is a special in-betweeny-sode solo show on my lessons learned from |
| 0:47.5 | rewriting my first novel over a decade later. But first, I just, I need to take a second to acknowledge what is happening as I |
| 0:57.0 | record this today in Europe. Russia has invaded Ukraine and to be honest, it's hard to talk about |
| 1:03.1 | what are basically trivial things in the face of war, especially as the pandemic isn't yet over |
| 1:09.8 | and the world is crazy enough as it is. |
| 1:12.6 | And I got up this morning and I planned to record this and I was just thinking, I really |
| 1:18.0 | don't want to record this because the world is just crazy. I mean, really, it's all these |
| 1:24.3 | things are happening and people don't want to talk about the tiny tiny aspects of |
| 1:28.5 | editing but then i remember that words can change things that art can change things that we can |
| 1:35.9 | reach across borders and find a common ground with our stories words are powerful and sometimes |
| 1:42.4 | they are all we have writing can help heal our wounds and work through our trauma, |
| 1:48.0 | and our work can help those who don't have their own words to fall back on. |
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