I’ve finally finished the new ending of the novel in progress. Yay! Now to go back to the beginning and start cranking through various rounds of revisions. The new ending came about as part of a revision on the story/plot level. Now that the story is (I hope) solid, I can focus on making the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'editing and revising'
wisdom of the controlled burn
July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized, editing and revising, general, productivity
I’m back at work today and there to greet me is a shiny new operating system on my work computer. In some ways it’s a lost day, since I have to install and configure a bunch of widgets, get all my devices talking to one another again, et cetera, et cetera. On the plus side, [...]
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thank you, Twitter
March 20th, 2009 · No Comments · book review, editing and revising, general
Remember when Blaise Pascal wrote, “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter”? (That was in 1656 so I’m using “remember” a bit loosely, since none of us was there. Anyway.) Twitter provides a needed corrective for the expansive nature of electronic communications. When you are printing [...]
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