The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
Today was the day I got annoyed and shortened DSoEDOOM to DSED. It was also the day I spent a lot of time looking for one particular scene, found it, edited it, input the edits, went to put it in the main file–and found it was in the manuscript I was planning to use already. […]
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Today I plowed through my notes. I’ve been pondering this re-write (when not pondering arson) off and on for years. I have a lot of notes. One thing I’ve noticed is I’ve got about…four attempts on Eve’s life in the first chapter. That’s insane! I don’t need to prove someone is after her–one would do
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Yeah, that acronym may be a little long and unwieldy. 🙂 Worked on Ben much of today. When I wasn’t getting distracted, oops. Anyway. I got my theme and my logline and my character arc pretty well, and I stomped out a messy and odorous but DONE blurb. Generally I don’t do them all in
Well, almost. Tis the eve of the Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM. Am I ready? Excuse me while I laugh hysterically. Please don’t slap me. No, I’m not ready. I needed a lot more of the last week to devote to getting ready than I was able to claim, and I am not ready. My
I was trying to flit through the MSs, figuring out what needed done on each, and then I got stuck. I’ve spent a couple days now poking at Keen. It’s different from my other books, and that’s confused me as to its issues, but I did know it had them. So. poke. poke. headdesk. poke.
omg, I am SUCH an idiot… Read More »
I love Keen’s book. And I hate it. Parts of it are brilliant. With editing, more of it could be. But I don’t know how the heck to fix the structure, and I don’ t know how to fix the POV problem. And I don’t want to spend time fixing it because it makes me