I’m working on editing Hiro, and I’m falling in. Not only do I need to edit this manuscript, but I need to fill in the holes in my worldbuilding and make sure what I come up with won’t trip me up in my plan for the later books. Because it’s a fantasy world, I’ve had to create much […]
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On my twitter stream this morning, someone compared writing a novel to giving birth, painful but exhilarating. Editing, according to this tweet, is the clean up after giving birth. Not fun, but necessary. Cue my completely inappropriate brain, envisioning a masked surgeon standing over a table with a marker going “no, no, that finger is
So today is the first REAL day of my vacation, somehow in my head. Though I’ve been officially off work since Tuesday, there were appointments and I had to go back in to work (unofficially) both Wednesday and Friday, and on Thursday one of my administrators accidentally locked the keys belonging to the OTHER administrator
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This year it looks like I’ll only have about two weeks off work. (I know–only?) That may, possibly, be enough time to edit one novel, but it certainly isn’t time enough for more than one. So, alas, no Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM this year. It’s not DOOM if it’s only one novel. Geez. I
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One week tomorrow and I’ll be back at work. Normally I’d be flailing about complaining I didn’t do anything, but this summer–at last!–that’s not true. I may not have done everything I’d hoped, but (as usual) my hopes were unrealistic. I still did pretty damn well. Fifty thousand words written in two months. Two hundred
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…and the living is easy… Okay, I’ll stop singing now. Don’t leave! So I’m free for the summer. This is glorious news! I have so much to do, and now I’ll have time to do it! Just as soon as I stop screwing around. 😉 Maybe you do better, but for me it’s hard to shift
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I’m done. I can’t edit any more right now. I hate to drop the Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM (I hate to drop anything ever!) but I just can’t edit. The arson-urges are too strong. Need to stay away from the flammable stuff for a bit. Part of it’s stress. As July goes on, I
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