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Writing Thursday: Contest Results and Writing Advice
Hi, everyone! Yeah, I know. I haven’t blogged about writing in a while. Frankly, while I’ve still been writing, I haven’t had a lot going on that I considered blog-worthy. This week, that changed. A couple of months ago, I … Continue reading
Writing Thursday: Showing, Not Telling; or, How Many Times Do I Have To Tell You?
I know this one. Really, I do. Show. Don’t tell. But when I’m trying to keep my word count down, sometimes it’s more economical to tell. Because showing involves using lots of words, you know. That “thousand words to paint … Continue reading
Writing Thursday: Brief Updates; or News From The Trenches
In a bit of a rush today, so I’m going to keep things brief. But this week’s exciting news is that I’m about halfway through my current desperate hunt for extraneous words in my WIP, The Daughters of August Winterbourne … Continue reading
Writing Thursday: Why Not Take All Of Me; or, Reducing Wordiness
For the past few weeks, I’ve been a woman on a mission. I’ve been trying to reduce my work-in-progress, The Daughters Of August Winterbourne (Book I) down to 125,000 words. The first draft weighed in at around 185,000 words; the … Continue reading
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Writing Thursday: My “Eureka!” Moment; or, To Make A Long Story Short
I posted a couple of weeks ago that I had finished editing the first book of my “Daughters of August Winterbourne” series. Turns out I was wrong about that. See, something was still bothering me about the book, and that … Continue reading
Writing Thursday: Help Wanted; or, Would You Like To Read A Story?
My big news this week is that I’ve finally, finally finished my second draft of The Daughters Of August Winterbourne, Book 1. (And yes, I know I need a snazzier title than that. Working on it. Really.) So now I’ve … Continue reading
Writing Thursday: The Death-March Continues; or, Editing Progress
It really is starting to feel like a death-march, this manuscript edit I’ve been working on. Bits of the story have been fighting back, tooth-and-nail. The epilogue, in particular, was bad-tempered and unruly. And we won’t even talk about how … Continue reading
Writing Thursday: Learning and Unlearning; or, Old Habits Do What?
I’ve been deep into editing the first book of my Winterbourne series these past few weeks (as I–ahem–may have mentioned once or twice). But the other day, when I went to open my file, my mouse pointer slipped, and instead, … Continue reading
Writing Thursday: The Revision Grind; or, Advice From The Trenches
For those of you who are curious, yes, I am in fact still hard at work revising the first book in the Winterbourne series. I’m currently on page 211 out of 249, which means I’m … uh … roughly 85% … Continue reading
The Good vs. The Bad; or, Why Didn’t I Have A Creative Writing Teacher Like This?
Today, author James Van Pelt* posted a blog entry on good poetry vs. bad poetry over on his LiveJournal. You should go read it. In particular, his list of characteristics of good vs. bad poetry (in the photograph of the … Continue reading
New Year, Old Project: The Cookbook Update
Hello, and Happy New Year, interwebs! I decided to take last week off from blogging–from the internet in general, actually–which is why there were no postings last week. I probably should have announced it in advance, but it was a … Continue reading
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Tagged cookbook project, cooking, editing and revising, filling the well, finishing what I started, focus, recipes
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News From The Editing Front; or, What I’ve Been Up To Lately
For those of you who have been wondering what sort of progress I’ve been making on my latest (unfinished) NaNoWriMo novel, I have a confession to make: I haven’t made any actual progress at all in the last two weeks. … Continue reading
And Then What? or, Pacing
(Post-A-Day Challenge, Day 16) (Gah! Somehow this got saved as a draft last night instead of getting posted. It should count anyway, right?) Found myself indisposed with an unhappy tummy today, so I took the opportunity to read through one … Continue reading
Prose To Poetry And Back Again; or, All The Other Cool Kids Were Doing It….
(Post-A-Day Challenge, Day 13) Okay, so…. After seeing this on a couple of other writers’ blogs, I decided to try it myself. The idea is to take your prose and break it into lines and stanzas like a free-verse poem. … Continue reading
Details, Details; or, Adding The Highlights
(Post-A-Day Challenge, Day 8) One of the things I am trying to do on my current edit pass on Book 1 of the Winterbourne series is to add in some of the little details that will help bring the story … Continue reading
November Is Coming; or, NaNoWriMo Prep
(Day 6 of Post-A-Day Challenge) On the various lists and communities to which I belong, I’m beginning to see more postings about things people are doing to prepare for the upcoming NaNoWriMo challenge. I’ve seen people who already have detailed … Continue reading
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Paring It Down; or Sometimes, Less Is More
(Post-A-Day Challenge, Day 3) One of the hardest parts of editing for me is figuring out which scenes are needed and which are not. I have to admit that my judgment is often clouded by how much I like a … Continue reading
Notes from Edit-head; or, More Musings on Revisions
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in “edit head” this week. Which is not a new thing for me, or terribly unusual What is unusual is that I seem to be bouncing around between projects. I dabbled a bit … Continue reading
Multitasking; or Can Writer Head and Edit Head Ever Work Together?
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) It’s summer, and I’ve agreed to take part in a summer writing challenge. The problem is, my brain got stuck in Edit Head. You see, at the same time, I was also … Continue reading
Decisions, Decisions; or How Do You Know When You’re Doing It Right?
(This posting originally appeared on The Melt-Ink Pot) I’m about 3/4 of the way finished with my second draft of the first volume of the “Daughters of August Winterbourne” series. And in the course of editing, I’ve had to make … Continue reading
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