“May I suggest we leave before congratulating ourselves,”– Avar Edmund extraction from my revision is all done. If I hit my target word count I’m almost a third of the way through my revision. Well, my first revision that is, this certainly is not the final draft. There is a lot of work to go. …
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Aimee
“It’s just wonderful to know that I mean less to you than a woman who has absolutely no respect for you.” — Aimee Aimee is the main character of my story, but that hasn’t always been the case. When I took my original try at writing a book, the main character was named Karlac and …
Mwah ha ha ha ha
“I’ve decided to see how awful I can be to him before he doesn’t want to sleep with me anymore.” — Holly I’ve been doing some experiments on the early chapters. I did a new POV switch, added a few more details, removed some bits that readers found confusing, and generally tidied up. Of course, …
Another One Bites The Dust
“One day, however, people will see that it was all part of God’s greater plan.” — Savin I’m going to pull yet another character out of my story. Goodbye Edmund. The problem with Edmund is that he just didn’t impact the plot that much. He had one moment in the plot, but another character can …
More Progress
“Don’t start up with that stupid fantasy again. Going back to him will just get you killed. Who am I going to torment then?” — Holly Revised chapter 14 and 15 are in the bag, well, for the first revision anyhow. There is plenty of stuff rewritten from the rough draft as usual. Revised chapter …
Filling in the Details
“We hide inside these barriers and pretend we are really part of this world. Sometimes I think the world doesn’t want us.” — Edmund Soon the time will come when I will send forth chapter four to a couple of my beta readers. In preparation, I’m doing a bit of cleaning up of the chapter. …
Audrey
“You went through that whole story just to tell me to get over it?” — Aimee Audrey is the name of the voice my computer uses when reading things to me. I’ve taken to letting Audrey read my chapters to me to catch little things. The reading software also highlights the sentence and word being …
Beta
“Yeah that’s probably the big reason they all hate me. I guess stabbing ****** didn’t help either.” — Holly I’ve done some beta reading for other people and I’ve found it to be a helpful exercise. Taking a look at something totally different seems to sharpen my senses for what I think works and doesn’t …
Moving Along
“Time strips everything to the bones, then the bones turn to dust,”– Descar Chapter 12 and chapter 13 of the revision are done. If the revision goes as many words as I think, then I’m somewhere between a sixth and a fifth of the way through. Than could translate into something like 70-80 chapters. That’s …