This is the best advice I have gotten on revising so far. So thanks to http://www.kidlit.com/ for the heads up! So here is the post. Feast your eyes upon it:
This came from brilliant YA author Laurie Halse Anderson’s Twitter yesterday, and I agree wholeheartedly:
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.
Let’s all meditate on that today!