![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a big piece of paper with a grid of vertical and horizontal lines. My favorite tool at this stage in the process is a big-picture story chart that I developed, and I use it with all of my chapter books and novels. But it’s hard to get an overall sense of a 400-page novel when you’re looking at individual pages, so at this stage in the revision process, I need to find a more effective way to see the big picture – a global view of what I’ve written. Much of my revision process for BREAKOUT involved marking up individual manuscript pages with notes – crossing out lines, paragraphs (sometimes whole pages and chapters!), choosing stronger words, adding details, and things like that. Why a 23-day series? Because this book was inspired by the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility prison break that led to a 23-day manhunt in June of 2015. It’s about a small-town prison break and manhunt that change the way three kids see their neighbors and the place they call home. Countdown to Breakout is a 23-day blog series about the three-year writing process for BREAKOUT, which earned starred reviews from both School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. ![]()
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