Examining no
While I'm still thinking about revisions, here's some thoughts on feedback and critiquing. I think feedback and critiquing are vital as long as they come at the right part of the process for you (which is something you need to work out). These days I need to do the...
Revising a soundtrack
I've posted before about soundtracks but after my last post, thought it might be interesting to look at how my soundtrack changes with subsequent drafts. My first pass at the soundtrack is fairly instinctual, I grab stuff out of iTunes and put it in some sort of...
Making it shiny
Comments are starting to come back from crit partners and betas so my mind is turning back to the book. I'll get Miriam's comments later today but she's given it the tick of approval (not that the tick of approval means no more work needed lol). So work on draft three...
Quote of the day
"In the midst of the process of writing, inspiration falls through one's brain in tiny, continuous drops as well as in tidal waves. Word size, paragraph size, scene size and up. You just have to be ready with the bucket. My bucket generally takes the form of a...
Cooking tip of the day
If you're going to make popcorn...and just say, you're going to make popcorn with some sort of coating that requires shaking the popcorn and coating in a sealed container to coat it, it's a good idea to make sure the lid of the container is on properly before you...
Post book brain
Finishing a book does strange things to your brain. I tend to write the ends of books fast and prefer, where possible, to revise fairly fast too (though there are multiple passes at this). For the first draft the endgame speed comes from the part where I finally see...
Done – take two
Let there be rejoicing for the endless revision is done and duly sent to my agent and crit buddies for comments. After which there'll undoubtedly be another pass but let's not talk about that right now. Right now there is only the righteous joy of done-ness and a...
Muesl-ings
As it's getting hotter down under, I though there might some folks out there who would appreciate this. This has been my fave breakfast for a few months now and I'm sure it will be even more appreciated in warm weather (and if it's cold where you are, you can nuke it...
Over there
Blogging over at Nobody Writes It Better today about suspension of disbelief....come check it out! In other news, revision continues, book gets longer and hopefully better. I hope I'm close to half way in actual final page count now or this will offically be the...
Up the hill
Well, I've gotten through four chapters of revision this weekend. Detailed layering and re-writing revision. Plus lots of language tweaking seeing this is not a modern time setting. Slow work, so I'm happy with four chapters. Each chapter has grown though not yet...
