Decide What to Keep: The Novel Revision Workbook

The Novel Revision Workbook — From finished draft to final say.

You finished a draft. That's the part most people never do — and it's where most writing guides stop. This workbook is what happens next.

Inside:

• A cold read protocol — five marks, one strict rule: no fixing yet

• An honest diagnosis — turn symptoms into causes before anything gets rewritten

• Eight structural repairs — plot, character arcs, stakes, pacing, theme, subplots, world, and openings — each one taught before it's asked of you, false fix named alongside the real one

• A full scene pass — scene cards that ask what every scene owes

• Line drills — dialogue, filter words, show-don't-tell, and trimming, sentence by sentence

• An AI watchlist — the eight prose habits everyone's picked up, and when they're actually earned

• Genre lanes — what changes when your book is fantasy, mystery, romance, sci-fi, and more

• The register axis — where your book sits between commercial and literary, and what that decides about your pitch or your cover

• A readiness gate — beta reader kit, editor-hiring guide, and launch runway for both publishing roads

You don't have to kill your darlings. You do have to decide where they live.

282 pages of decisions, in the order you need them.