Tag Archives: editing

Too much sandwich, not enough demon hunting

Last week, I had this thought that I’d started Rukan in the wrong place. It wasn’t working in its current structure. In my head I sketched out a different starting place (where I’d initially reckoned on maybe book2 started at) but it all sounded like backstory. If you read it first, you’d think you were reading a sequel.

Loving & loathing for April

My ins & outs for April. New adventures at the top of the list!

40 pages left…

… in the editing of Molly’s Gift. I’m on page 143. There are 183. Hopefully I did the maths right, right?

Looking forward to the back burner

Oh, back burnering! How I look forward to that. I feel very meh about this story right now. I’m gnawing at it, resenting it for how long it is taking, dutifully obeying its wishes to be finished. Every night I don’t edit, I am consumed with guilt. Nobody else is going to finish this story so just frickin do it already.

Editing schmediting

The challenge in writing fresh words is about breaking ground, filling up white space, going forward. The challenge in editing is you have to think about what those words mean and if they are achieving an objective.