Since I've been waffling around with editing on In the Twilight Between I decided to do some reading to help me along. In doing this I came across a great book called "Self-editing for Fiction Writers" by Renni Browne and Dave King.
I really enjoyed reading it and it gave me lots of good ideas for fixing some of the problems that I was having as well as highlighting a few that I didn't realize I had. Plus some of the techniques they have give me a good excuse to use my pretty colored highlighters ;-)
A highly recommended read.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Cool link
My father passed on to me a really cool link the other day.
The place is called "Project Gutenberg". It's a web site with thousands of free ebooks and audio books. All the books are old and in the public domain. Lots of good stuff there (Jane Austen!).
I've been downloading all kinds of cool stuff all morning :-) Definitely worth a look.
The place is called "Project Gutenberg". It's a web site with thousands of free ebooks and audio books. All the books are old and in the public domain. Lots of good stuff there (Jane Austen!).
I've been downloading all kinds of cool stuff all morning :-) Definitely worth a look.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Kissing the Frog
On this edition of kissing the frog, I want to talk about mediums.
No. Not the creepy ghost kind. I'm talking about pen and paper versus typing.
Since I finished The Stars Cry Out No More I've begun editing In the Twilight Between. It was going well, but I realized that I needed to rewrite several scenes. I hate rewriting things. I always feel like I do all the work just to get back to where I started. So I wasn't really surprised when I came to the first scene and my momentum ground to a halt. I would poke at it, maybe get 50 words then stopped again.
Then the other day I was talking to a friend and she showed me some of her notes that she had child on a clipboard.
Hmm... Paper.
I went home and pulled out my own clipboard and some loose papers and tried writing that troublesome scene again. Big difference. Now instead of just typing the scene, I was writing in a new medium. Everything felt fresh again and before I knew it I had over five (single space) pages written and had gotten over the hardest part of the scene.
Just that little change mad all the difference.
No. Not the creepy ghost kind. I'm talking about pen and paper versus typing.
Since I finished The Stars Cry Out No More I've begun editing In the Twilight Between. It was going well, but I realized that I needed to rewrite several scenes. I hate rewriting things. I always feel like I do all the work just to get back to where I started. So I wasn't really surprised when I came to the first scene and my momentum ground to a halt. I would poke at it, maybe get 50 words then stopped again.
Then the other day I was talking to a friend and she showed me some of her notes that she had child on a clipboard.
Hmm... Paper.
I went home and pulled out my own clipboard and some loose papers and tried writing that troublesome scene again. Big difference. Now instead of just typing the scene, I was writing in a new medium. Everything felt fresh again and before I knew it I had over five (single space) pages written and had gotten over the hardest part of the scene.
Just that little change mad all the difference.
Monday, August 10, 2009
I return
So after a really really long month of helping out friends and sickness, I'm back.
I got absolutely nothing done writing wise last month, but I hope that August will be better.
Better post tomorrow. I promise.
I got absolutely nothing done writing wise last month, but I hope that August will be better.
Better post tomorrow. I promise.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Bad me
I'm being lazy about posting again *sigh* So I'm going to cheat a little today and do a first-of-the-month update on all my projects. I'll do an actual substantive post later ;-)
The Stars Cry Out No More
-I've finally started sending out queries (yay!). One rejection back so far. Now I need to finish up my synopsis and send it out to more agents.
In the Twilight Between
-Still editing, but things are going very well so far. All I need now is a few more beta readers >.>
Lend Me Your Tears
-Dead. I tried to force myself to write it during SocNoc when I really didn't want to. The consequences were fatal and now the story is dead. Seriously bad stuff, but I was looking at it and I think I know where things started to go wrong. So now I know how not to write a story like that (and not to force myself). I'll still keep the main plot idea in the back of my mind for a possible redo later, but for now the story's going to the chop shop of my mind. I've already taken a few of the small ideas from there and used them to patch up and embellish other stories.
In Griffin's writing land, nothing ever truly dies :-)
What the Night Keeps
*New!* This story was SocNoc Plan B. I was planing on saving this story for NaNoWriMo or something like that, but I decided to pull it out early to finish off my word count.
I. Love. This. Story. It's as good as the other one sucked. As soon as I figured out that the story should be told from the Hero's POV everything started to fall into place. I had wanted to do it from the Heroin's POV, but looking back the Hero's POV lets me weave plot secrets much better.
Goals for next month:
-send out at least ten more queries for Stars Cry Out.
-Make progress in editing Twilight Between.
-I'm tempted to write "finish What the Night Keeps" but I think that may be a little ambitious. We'll see, but I'd be happy with just about any progress.
Any progress is good progress :-)
The Stars Cry Out No More
-I've finally started sending out queries (yay!). One rejection back so far. Now I need to finish up my synopsis and send it out to more agents.
In the Twilight Between
-Still editing, but things are going very well so far. All I need now is a few more beta readers >.>
Lend Me Your Tears
-Dead. I tried to force myself to write it during SocNoc when I really didn't want to. The consequences were fatal and now the story is dead. Seriously bad stuff, but I was looking at it and I think I know where things started to go wrong. So now I know how not to write a story like that (and not to force myself). I'll still keep the main plot idea in the back of my mind for a possible redo later, but for now the story's going to the chop shop of my mind. I've already taken a few of the small ideas from there and used them to patch up and embellish other stories.
In Griffin's writing land, nothing ever truly dies :-)
What the Night Keeps
*New!* This story was SocNoc Plan B. I was planing on saving this story for NaNoWriMo or something like that, but I decided to pull it out early to finish off my word count.
I. Love. This. Story. It's as good as the other one sucked. As soon as I figured out that the story should be told from the Hero's POV everything started to fall into place. I had wanted to do it from the Heroin's POV, but looking back the Hero's POV lets me weave plot secrets much better.
Goals for next month:
-send out at least ten more queries for Stars Cry Out.
-Make progress in editing Twilight Between.
-I'm tempted to write "finish What the Night Keeps" but I think that may be a little ambitious. We'll see, but I'd be happy with just about any progress.
Any progress is good progress :-)
Thursday, June 25, 2009
I've been christened…
…into writerdom. I got my first rejection letter this afternoon :-)
Now the fact that it's a rejection isn't necessarily a happy thing, but the fact that I have a book done and am starting down the road to publication is :-D
So here's to rejections and progress!
Now the fact that it's a rejection isn't necessarily a happy thing, but the fact that I have a book done and am starting down the road to publication is :-D
So here's to rejections and progress!
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Write or Die!
All right, today was my Write or Die marathon! Here's what I have to show for it :-)
*Collapses in exhaustion*
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