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Slippery little suckers

One piece of advice writers often get is to understand their process. Good plan. Trouble is, processes shift and change with each book. I’ve had books that have roared onto the page like a freight train, books that have come at a steady slog, books that have...

All very familiar

Ladies and gentlemen of the internet, yes, we have reached that time again, the time when Mel needs to pull out the progress stats to keep her inner taskmaster happy and get the darn draft finished. Today I decided to write twenty pages. No idea why. It was a little...

Happy

I feel like I’ve got hold of the new shape of this book now. The weight of it is sitting right in my head and I can tilt it and turn it and see the whole picture nearly. Sometimes writing feels like hiking up a heavily wooded trail. You get glimpses of the...

Almost

Heading into the home run of the structural part of my revision. A few scenes to reslant to make sure all the new threads are lining up, a few new bits to write and then it will be done. I think it works but I’m at the point right now where I have no idea...

Chopping and changing

>Sorry for blog silence, between busy day job days and revisions, I am Mel of boringness right now.Currently working my way through the part of revisions which is the most amount of changing order of scenes and what happens so the going has been a little slow while...

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