All right, champion. It’s time to return to the keyboard, push up your sleeves, and set your mind on making your characters, story, and world shine. Remember that revising a story is a marathon rather than a sprint, and it will take time to refine your story. There’s some hard work ahead, but you can do it!

This Revision Roadmap will guide you through the process of revising, editing, and polishing your story or novel. Step by step, we’ll get you to the finish line, pointing out One Stop for Writers resources and helpful articles that will make your job much easier.

Whenever you’re ready to start, just use the sidebar to navigate. Note that some links may be affiliate ones, but rest assured: we only recommend helpful and proven resources, many of which we use ourselves.

Because revision takes time, expect to use this roadmap for a while. You may even choose to repeat certain sections, and that’s okay. As always, One Stop will remember where you are in the map and open to the last section you visited.

Using this roadmap to revise your story should get it into shape so you can take the next step in your journey: publication. And that’s pretty dang exciting, right?

Let’s get to work!