Tag Archive | editing
NaNo 2011: Salvaging your NaNo Experience
Tweet of the Day: There is Only the Text ——– NaNoWriMo is coming to an end. Congratulations on all the winners. Soon it will be time to salvage a meaningful story from it. What do you mean “salvage” a story? You didn’t even finish yours! True, but while you bask in the glory of your […]
Moving Things Around
The new year means new projects, and old ones as well. Right now I’m looking at my second novel and ways to fix it. Essentially it still in it’s NaNo form, that is, too short, too thin, too mess up. I did finish it, but looking back, the added material feels tacked on after the […]
Dump that scene!
I was just thinking about how my current WIP has exploded with characters. I’m trying to reign them in, but so far they seem to follow the rules I laid down on this post with a few exceptions. But sometimes you just have to dump a scene (i.e. kill your darlings) because it doesn’t fit. […]
Clearing the Deck-Week 2: Killing My Darlings
The 360 is back on. Tried to keep the streak but half way through the week I failed. Couldn’t do it any more. Why? I sent an excerpt (first 450 words) of my first WIP to a contest, to see if I could snag an agent. Missed the first dateline, almost missed the second. I […]
Just Another Blogfest
I guess I’m addicted to them. This time it’s the “Let’s Talk” Blogfest, brought to you by Roni Griffin of the Fiction Groupie blog. Cut and Paste Instructions: So for this blogfest, the rules are simple: 1. On Tuesday May 18, post a short excerpt on your blog of your most sparkly dialogue scene (no, I’m […]
You Can’t Fight the Feeling
Nope, you can’t. And I don’t mean that loving feeling. I mean your gut, your instincts. Let me explain. A month or so back I announced the end of my editing process. All I had to do was type it up, write the query letter and off to join the ranks of published authors. Except […]
What if I had made that movie?
Summer movie season is nearly upon us and that means that means a long parade of explosions, insane FX and some acting thrown in for good measure. All in good fun. On my list of fluffy entertainment to see this summer includes such flicks as the re- imagined J.J. Adams version of Start Trek and […]
It’s a mistake! Time to edit.
Now that is a good question (posed by Benjamin Solah over at the AW Forums). I start editing the moment I write I write my first drafts on legal notepad (white-blue lined). That gives me the freedom to add notes, scratch entire senteces, scenes or what have you. When I tried to do it in […]